EU has made a strong emphasis on advansing sustainability transition. As part of this, what has EU integrated into its free trade agreements? 

EU is highly interconnected to global economy through trade. What could be the benefit from this fragility at the time of increasing geopolitical tensions? 

What could be the positive outcomes of including environmental protection into trade agreements? 

What could be the consequences of extreme form of geoeconomic fragmentation in trade? 

There has been a clear change in EU's trade with different trade partners due to geopolitical tensions. What has this change been?

The global financial crisis of 2008 and Covid-19 can be clearly seen as drops in the trade as a share of GDP.

In 2020s the least openned markets in EU according to the trade as a share of GDP figures were Greece and Romania. 

When comparing the major developed economies (US, Japan, UK, Canada and EU) with the BRIC group countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) only EU and India are above the world avarage in 2022.

Since 2015 all EU (27) countries have been above the World avarage.

Luxemburg and Malta have clearly higher trade share of GDP than the other EU countries.