ÖFSE-Publications Bernhard Tröster

Briefing Paper 40

The African Continental Free Trade Area – From Rules on Paper to Trade in Practice?

Bernhard Tröster / Melike Döver / Robert Kappel

Wien, November 2026 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.60637/2026-bp40

Five years after the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) opened for trade on 1 Janu ...

Policy Note 46

Making the EU Unfair Trading Practices Directive work in Global Value Chains

Bernhard Tröster / Simela Papatheophilou / Robert Blöschl / Christina Weber / Carola Schafhausen / Christian Herzig

Wien, July 2026 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.60637/2026-pn46

Power imbalances in EU agri-food value chains have led legislators to prohibit Unfair Tradin ...

Research Report 26

The Limited Reach of EU Unfair Trading Practice Legislation in Global Value Chains

Simela Papatheophilou / Bernhard Tröster / Robert Blöschl / Christina Weber / Carola Schafhausen / Christian Herzig

Wien, April 2026 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.60637/2026-rr26

Power imbalances in EU agri-food value chains have prompted legislators to prohibit ‘Unfair ...

Study Requested by the INTA committee /EU Parliament

Stefan Mayr / Lia Musitz / Simela Papatheophilou / Werner Raza / Bernhard Tröster / Tobias Wuttke

March 2026

Overcapacities, particularly from China, are perceived as a threat to European manufacturers ...

FEPS Policy Brief December 2025

Werner Raza / Bernhard Tröster

December 2025

European Union trade policy finds itself at a crossroads. After three decades of neoliberal ...

Policy Note 43

EU Strategic Raw Material Partnerships

Challenges and future directions

Karin Küblböck / Simela Papatheophilou / Bernhard Tröster

Wien, October 2025 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.60637/2025-pn43

In response to growing critical raw material demand and increasing instability in global sup ...

Research Report 25

EU Raw Material Partnerships: Mutual Benefits or Green Extractivism?

A critical analysis of the EU’s Strategic Partnerships on Raw Materials, with a focus on Kazakhstan, Chile, and Rwanda

Karin Küblböck / Simela Papatheophilou / Bernhard Tröster / Leonhard Ulrici

Wien, September 2025 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.60637/2025-rr25

As part of its efforts to secure access to critical raw materials (CRMs), the EU has conclud ...

Research Report 24

Ending Child Labour – Implementation of SDG 8.7

Simela Papatheophilou / Bernhard Tröster

Wien, September 2025 | https://doi.org/10.60637/2025-rr24

Despite SDG target 8.7 aiming to eliminate child labour by 2025, 137.6 million children rema ...

Research Report 23

Assess_EU-Mercosur 2.0: Assessing the final agreement text of the Association Agreement between the EU and Mercosur

Simela Papatheophilou / Bernhard Tröster / Werner Raza / Laura Coral

Wien, June 2025 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.60637/2025-rr23

After some 20 years, the negotiations on the EU Mercosur Association Agreement (EUMAA) were ...

Briefing Paper 36

Strategic Autonomy meets Global Dependency

Instruments and Implications of the EU’s Raw Materials Policy with Third Countries

Bernhard Tröster / Simela Papatheophilou / Karin Küblböck

Wien, May 2025 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.60637/2025-bp36

As global competition for specific mineral raw materials intensifies, this Briefing Paper ex ...

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