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Author: Arianna Rizzia

  • Decoding the EU-India FTA: Chemicals & Sustainability

    February 26, 2026

    Last month, the European Union and India concluded over three years of negotiations on a long-awaited deal for a Free Trade Agreement. Across automotive, steel, chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and agri-food, the emerging EU-India trade agreement has the potential to significantly reshape trade flows between two major industrial powers. Following the first, second and third part of our series on the EU-India FTA focused on pharmaceuticals, automotive and metals, and agri-food & alcoholic beverages, our final part in the series...

  • Decoding the EU-India FTA: Agri-food & Alcohol

    February 25, 2026

    Last month, the European Union and India concluded over three years of negotiations on a long-awaited deal for a Free Trade Agreement. Across automotive, steel, chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and agri-food, the emerging EU-India trade agreement has the potential to significantly reshape trade flows between two major industrial powers. Following the first and second part of our series on the EU-India FTA focused on pharmaceuticals and automotive and metals respectively, our next installment considers provisions related to the automotive...

  • Decoding the EU-India FTA: Automotive & Metals

    February 24, 2026

    Last month, the European Union and India concluded over three years of negotiations on a long-awaited deal for a Free Trade Agreement. Across automotive, steel, chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and agri-food, the emerging EU-India trade agreement has the potential to significantly reshape trade flows between two major industrial powers. Following the first part of our series on the EU-India FTA focused on pharmaceuticals, our next installment considers provisions related to the automotive and metals industry.    Automotive Francesca Rinaudo, Account Director...

  • Decoding the EU-India FTA: Pharmaceuticals

    February 20, 2026

    Last month, the European Union and India concluded over three years of negotiations on a long-awaited deal for a Free Trade Agreement. This is a key deal to watch as the EU is India's second-largest trading partner (after the United States), accounting for 11.5% of total Indian trade in 2024. India is the EU’s ninth largest trading partner, accounting for 2.2% of the EU's total trade in goods in 2023. "Some call it the mother of...

  • From Cancer to Cardiovascular Disease: Lessons from Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

    September 24, 2025

    In 2021, the European Commission published Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan (EBCP) in a move of unprecedented political commitment to addressing one of Europe’s most serious health burdens: Cancer. The plan ambitiously introduced actions to tackle cancer via prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment, and improving the quality of life for patients and survivors. Including actions to introduce non-binding recommendations, provide funding for intervention and research, and to revise existing or introduce new legislation, the plan...

  • Generative AI is changing the search game

    May 8, 2025

      Search is evolving. Your communications strategy must evolve with it. Search isn’t what it used to be For much of the internet’s history, the fundamentals of search have remained largely unchanged: users entered queries using engines such as Google or Bing, reviewed results, and navigated to external sources. In short, search showed you where to find your answer. This environment had a clear set of engagement rules that communication professionals learned to master: optimising...

  • Does the new EU food and farming strategy have the bite it needs to succeed?

    March 12, 2025

    The EU unveiled its new agriculture and food strategy, the EU Vision for Agriculture and Food, on February 19, 2025, setting the direction for the next five years of policymaking. Amidst a challenging geopolitical context and following months of farmers’ protests across European streets, the European Commission has delineated a strategy built around the need for competitiveness, resilience and profitability of EU farming and food. Recognising the strategic role of the agrifood sector for the...

  • The challenges facing Europe and European leaders at Davos 2025

    January 24, 2025

    As world leaders converge at Davos this week, Europe stands at a critical crossroads in its own sustainability trajectory. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s Special Address on Tuesday underscored the challenges facing a world in which major economies are ‘vying for access to raw materials, new technologies and global trade routes’. For Europe, this race is particularly acute due to a lack of access to the domestic resources needed to develop decarbonisation technologies...

  • My internship experience in Brussels: A gateway to professional and personal growth

    July 18, 2024

    Alba is an undergraduate intern in our Integrated Communications and Reputation team. She studies political science at the University of Warwick in the UK. She’s dived into her experience in more detail to give a taste of her time in the EU capital. My experience as an intern I started my internship in September 2023 where I was welcomed into a friendly and supportive team. Through my role, I was able to participate in many...

  • The EU year of change: Act 2

    June 13, 2024

    The European Elections are over; the contest to lead Europe is about to begin. When the provisional results of the European Parliament elections, one of the world’s largest democratic exercises, landed on Sunday evening, they told us the will of the voters and ushered in the next phase of the EU’s year of institutional change. We know the 720 MEPs who will make up the next parliament. But no official decisions have been taken yet...

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