BSOG Policy Forum Series 2024 - Sustainable Trade in the Making?

Sustainability has become a key topic in EU trade policy for two reasons. On the one hand, the accelerating environmental crises have increased the expectations towards EU trade policy to reduce its environmental footprint and to contribute to the green transition. On the other hand, geopolitical tensions have put the durability of global supply chains and of the multilateral liberal trading system into question. The European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen has tried to respond to both developments with an Open, Sustainable, and Assertive Trade Policy. Since 2019 the European Commission has proposed several unilateral trade instruments and integrated other policy areas in its bilateral and multilateral trade agendas. In the end of the current Commission’s 5-year term, the coherence between EU trade policy and other EU agendas in environment, digitalization, security, migration, agriculture, security and development remains however unclear. How coherent is EU trade policy with other policy fields? What level of integration has been reached? When have the policies remained less coherent? And what does sustainable trade actually mean from the perspectives of the different policy fields?

Part of the series took place already, for the full program check the website.

Wednesday, 12 June 2024 12:30-14:00 CET  Sustainable Trade & Migration - Coherence or Pluralism under a Trend of Deterrence?

Wednesday, 19 June 2024 12:30-14:00 CET Sustainable Trade & Agriculture - Coherence and Pluralism at a Politically Charged Intersection

Wednesday, 26 June 2024 12:30-14:00 CET Sustainable Trade & Development - Coherence and Pluralism in Designing Mutually Beneficial Partnerships

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