13 Mar
Chapter News, News, Trade & TTIP Related

World Bank | How Forever Chemicals are Impacting International Trade

Blog | "Forever chemicals” are synthetic substances that have been widely used for decades in industrial and consumer products due to their resistance to heat, oil, and water. Officially called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – or PFAS – they are man-made chemicals that do not degrade easily and accumulate in soil, water, air, and ultimately, the food we eat. Forever chemicals can pose serious environmental and health risks, but they are also fast becoming a challenge in international trade, resulting...

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13 Mar
Chapter News, News

European Council | Council Agrees Position to Streamline Rules on Artificial Intelligence

Today the Council agreed its position on the proposal to streamline certain rules regarding artificial intelligence (AI). The proposal forms part of the so-called “Omnibus VII” legislative package in the EU’s simplification agenda. The package includes proposals for two regulations aiming to simplify the EU’s digital legislative framework and the implementation of harmonised rules on AI. "Streamlining the AI rules is essential for ensuring the EU’s digital sovereignty. As presidency, we worked on this proposal with urgency, reaching a swift agreement to facilitate the timely...

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12 Mar
Member News, News

Cuatrecasas | EU-UK Competition Cooperation Agreement

On February 25, 2026, the European Commission (the "Commission") and the United Kingdom (UK) signed the EU-UK Competition Cooperation Agreement ("the Agreement"). This is the first agreement supplementing the post-Brexit 2020 EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement providing for specific cooperation in the area of competition enforcement. The EU had already entered into similar agreements with other jurisdictions. However, the Agreement has a distinguishing feature: it does not only regulate the mechanics of cooperation between the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Commission, but also regulates...

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12 Mar
News, TRIA News

EIB | The European Commission and EIB Advisory Support EU Ports Strategy Through New Capacity Building Programme for Small and Medium sized ports

The European Investment Bank (EIB), through its advisory arm, and the European Commission are launching a new technical training programme under the JASPERS mandate, making a concrete step in strengthening EU’s strategic port infrastructure. The assignment is supported under a EC-EIB Joint Contribution Agreement providing financial backing from the Connecting Europe Facility and Cohesion Policy Funds. This new advisory assignment is designed to reach a broad audience of small and medium-sized ports on the trans-European transport (TEN-T) network, aiming to...

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12 Mar
Chapter News, News

ECB | A Highway for the Future of Europe’s Digital Finance

Blog|  Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB As payments and financial markets go digital, central bank money must evolve too. Through initiatives such as Pontes and Appia, the Eurosystem is working with market participants to ensure that tokenised finance can settle safely in central bank money, supporting innovation, integration and Europe’s financial sovereignty. Technology is transforming how we communicate, travel, work and pay. The way that central banks issue money also needs to change, to meet the...

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12 Mar
Member News, News

NautaDutilh | Inside the Industrial Accelerator Act Proposal: 5 Things you Need to Know

Blog | On 4 March 2026, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a Regulation establishing a framework of measures for the acceleration of industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors (Industrial Accelerator Act or IAA). The proposal is accompanied by a press release, Q&A, and factsheet. The IAA is deliberately wide-ranging, seeking to cover competitiveness, decarbonisation, supply-chain resilience, foreign investment, and territorial industrial policy within a single framework. Key takeaways Strategic industrial and decarbonisation projects would benefit from...

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10 Mar
Member News, News

VRC | Evolving Earnouts: Shorter Horizons, Higher Hurdles, and Rising Complexity

The article in brief: Contingent consideration, especially earnouts, helped sustain M&A deal momentum in 2025 amid macroeconomic uncertainty. Earnouts are expanding beyond the life sciences sector, with shorter performance periods and increasingly ambitious payout hurdles. As deal structures become more customized, valuation methodologies are evolving to keep pace with growing complexity. How 2025’s Market Cycle Influenced Earnout Activity M&A deal activity in 2025 unfolded in two distinct phases. Early in the year, shifting trade policy, uneven macroeconomic data, and persistent inflation...

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10 Mar
Chapter News, News

European Parliament | Protecting Copyrighted Work and the EU’s Creative Sector in the Age of AI

Secure transparency, remuneration and the possibility for rightsholders to prevent the use of their protected content in AI training Protect the news media sector to ensure media pluralism and diversity of information Introduce new licensing rules to address potential infringements of copyright law To protect the creative sector in the EU, the use of copyrighted work by artificial intelligence requires transparency and fair remuneration, Parliament says. On Tuesday, MEPs adopted a series of recommendations to protect copyrighted creative work from...

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10 Mar
Member News, News

CLA | Data Center Construction: Are We Building the “Shopping Malls” of 2036?

Key insights While commercial real estate construction is slowing due to high costs and labor shortages, data centers remain a bright spot because of accelerating AI‑driven demand. The pace of computing innovation could outstrip the useful lives of today’s designs. AI hardware, density patterns, and power requirements are evolving quickly, creating real risk current data center layouts and systems may not align with future needs. Just as America’s shopping malls lost value when consumer behavior changed, data centers could...

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09 Mar
Chapter News, News

IMF | AI Can Lift Global Growth

Blog | AI can lift global growth but lasting productivity benefits depend on how fast we learn to measure, finance, and govern it. Artificial intelligence is the defining driver of global economic conversation—and, increasingly, of economic growth itself. In the United States, AI-related investment now accounts for a large share of GDP growth, fueling new demand for servers, data centers, software, and power infrastructure. Policymakers are scrambling to understand what this means: Is the world witnessing a short-lived investment bubble...

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