To date there is no Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the Gulf Cooperation Council. Because of this, relations have generally been bi-lateral -between countries - rather than multilateral (Photo: ezioman)

Oil, carbon reductions and future EU-Gulf relations

EU & the World

Green Economy

Opinion

by Guy Burton, Brussels,

July marked the start of a new direction for the European Union, with Germany's Ursula von der Leyen as Commission president and Belgium's Charles Michel as president of the European Council have been charged with forging the bloc's new economic, political and diplomatic direction

In the former's case she set out a policy portfolio which acknowledged the diverse nature of the Europ...

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EU & the World Green Economy Opinion

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Author Bio

Guy Burton teaches at Vesalius College in Brussels and is a visiting fellow with the LSE Middle East Centre in London. Until last year, he was an assistant professor at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, teaching UAE and Gulf issues.