EUROPEAN SERVICES FORUM
ESF
Members of the European Services Forum have adopted the following Set of principles: 1. In the coming decades, issues related to international trade in services will present challenges to the multilateral trading system that at least equal, in importance and difficulty, tariff and non-tariff barriers to the development of trade in goods. 2. While bilateral and regional agreements and initiatives can play a useful supportive role, a firm and widely supported multilateral agreement remains the ultimate goal of services negotiations within the WTO. 3. Services and other services-related issues (such as investment and public procurement) should be negotiated in all international trade negotiations, with as much emphasis that the one given to trade in goods. 4. International trade in services negotiations should create much improved opportunities for profitable international business. To that end, they should: • be ambitious in their goals for real liberalisation, (...)
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Sofia Munoz Albarran (Director Trade) and
15 Oct 2025 · Interplay between the trade anti-dumping and anti-subsidies regulations and the EU Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR) to ensure that the two regimes combined deliver their maximal effect, complementing each other, while remaining accessible.
Response to A strategy for strengthening the EU’s leadership in global digital affairs
21 May 2025
Meeting with Agata Gerba (Head of Unit Trade)
20 May 2025 · Informal Meeting between the European Services Forum (ESF) and the Council of the European Union’s Trade Policy Committee on Services and Investment (TPC-SI)
Meeting with Bernd Biervert (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič), Chiara Galiffa (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)
1 Apr 2025 · Importance of trade in services for the EU. Introduce the work of ESF.
Meeting with Piotr Rydzkowski (Head of Unit Trade) and
18 Mar 2025 · CSD Contact Group meeting-Overview of Trade priorities and rolling calendar
Meeting with Karin Karlsbro (Member of the European Parliament) and Almega
24 Sept 2024 · Presentation av tjänstesektorn
Meeting with Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis), Kevin Keary (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
1 Mar 2023 · Bilateral trade agenda, WTO e-commerce
Response to Joint Communication: New Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean
7 Feb 2023
Meeting with Tomas Baert (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)
3 Feb 2023 · State of play on key EU trade policy priorities; trade policy pillar of the Green Deal Industrial Plan
Meeting with Maria Asenius (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Pedro Velasco Martins (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)
9 Feb 2018 · Importance of services in the economie and trade agreements
Meeting with Xavier Coget (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)
7 Dec 2017 · Exchange on EU trade policy in the field of services
Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska) and
7 Dec 2017 · Data Flows in Trade Agreements
Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)
13 Oct 2017 · Trade in services
Meeting with Jon Nyman (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)
26 Apr 2017 · Commissioners possible participation at a future event
Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska), Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska) and
16 Sept 2016 · digital trade
Meeting with Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)
27 Oct 2015 · EU's trade strategy; TTIP
Meeting with Jean-Luc Demarty (Director-General Trade)
31 Mar 2015 · New trade policy strategy, TTIP, TiSA and other bilateral negotiations
Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner) and
2 Feb 2015 · Speech at Business Alliance for TTIP's Welcome Reception