After the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) triggered
massive public mobilization in the European Union (EU), literature emerged on the novel …

This article examines the origins and current operation of the EU's lobbying transparency
register and offers a critical review of the drivers and politics associated with lobbying reform …

The outbreak of COVID‐19 in March 2020 led to substantial upheaval in the EU's trade
policy. Over the course of a year, EU Trade Policy as a field witnessed the launch of hitherto …

In the past few years decision‐making processes and the normative underpinnings of EU
external relations have become subject to intense debate in the European institutions …

This is the introduction to a special collection of contributions that analyse key features of the
European Union's (EU) trade policy in the twenty-first century, notably its politicization. As …

Since 2014 the (relatively) calm waters of the EU's trade policy have been roiled by wide-
spread popular opposition to the EU's trade negotiations with the United States and Canada …

Transparency in environmental governance is no longer an uncontroversial answer to
problems of accountability and effectiveness. How to design effective transparency systems …

In response to growing contestation and politicisation of trade policy, policy makers have
aimed to enhance the 'inclusiveness' of trade policy through the institutionalisation of …

Until a few years ago, EU external trade initiatives attracted little attention. But matters have
been different with TTIP with the United States and CETA with Canada. What can explain …

Over the last decade, trade negotiations with Canada and the United States met with
considerable resistance from non-governmental organisations (NGO). Moreover, the …