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The Congress is the legislative branch of the United States (US) system of government.
The prohibition of discrimination and the protection of human rights are important elements of the EU legal order. Nevertheless, discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ...
Over the last ten years, the EU has taken several key measures to combat aggressive corporate tax planning, aiming to curb the billions in revenue losses suffered by Member States.
The European Parliament's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) brought together Members of the European Parliament, the European Commission and researchers on 29 April 2025, to ...
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, making it an important trade and logistics hub.
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), signed on 30 December 2020, was applied provisionally from 1 January 2021 and entered into force on 1 May 2021.
Figure 6 illustrates the share of the EU’s main goods exported to the UK. Over the lifespan of the TCA, the affected sectors have fluctuated. The first six sectors listed in Figure 6 have consistently ...
Unlike other G7 economies, UK trade has not recovered since the COVID 19 pandemic. This has affected ‘UK trade overall and bilaterally with the EU’, according to a Bruegel study. As Figure 1 shows, EU ...
Likewise, Figure 4 shows that EU exports of goods to the UK have consistently risen since the implementation of the TCA. A September 2024 review of the EU-UK TCA, published by the Scottish Parliament, ...
According to the British Chamber of Commerce, the EU is the UK’s largest and most important trading partner globally: it accounts for 42 % of UK exports and 52 % of imports. Figure 2 confirms this and ...