Read the new issue of College of Europe Policy Brief Series, written by Dirk De Bièvre (University of Antwerp), Sieglinde Gstöhl (College of Europe) and Emile Van Ommeren (University of Antwerp), which provides an explanation for the resilience of EU trade policy in the face of NGO contestation and seeming national parliamentary blockade. Available for download at https://www.coleurope.eu/news/new-issue-college-europe-policy-brief-series-cepob-32.