The Franchising & Distribution Team at Fieldfisher is pleased to share this three-part series on the lifecycle of franchise and distribution agreements in Europe.

The EU's role in migration What happens to migrants and refugees once they arrive? Facts and figures on irregular arrivals Migration routes: where do migrants and refugees come from? The EU's role in ...

EU means the 27 EU countries, including Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint-Martin (French Antilles), the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, but not ...

Value Added Tax (VAT) is a consumption tax that is applied to nearly all goods and services that are bought and sold for use or consumption in the EU. The EU has standard rules on VAT, but these rules ...

The EU wanted to regulate every aspect of our lives. Post-Brexit UK governments have kept some of the EU ideology that only government can save us from the risks of life, and only regulated industries ...

Denmark’s bottom-up approach to CO2 infrastructure regulation, based on local clusters, could be used as a template for upcoming EU rules – as long as Brussels ensures standardisation for cross-border ...

April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maros Sefcovic arrives for a meeting of EU trade ministers at the European Council building in ...

The EU list is part of the implementation of the Critical Raw Material Act agreed in 2023 under which the bloc aims to mine 10%, process 40% and recycle 25% of its needs by 2030. Ten of the new ...

The EU template is still the gold standard for ECOWAS to aspire to. A strong ECOWAS can lead the effort to actualise the elusive African unity.

Whether or not Germany’s Lithuania brigade becomes a template for others, permanent forward basing of combat-ready forces by Europe’s military heavyweights could soon become more common again. During ...

Newly elected Polish President Karol Nawrocki is known as an EU skeptic. How can he sway Poland's EU policy, and how is he viewed in Brussels? Right-wing conservative Karol Nawrocki has won the ...

Chinese firms will be blocked from EU tenders worth more than €5 million (US$5.2 million) for a five-year period in what marks the first use of the bloc’s international procurement instrument ...