As expected, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement in trilogue on the regulation introducing the ‘Anti-Coercion Instrument’ on Tuesday, 6 June. Now that additional technical meetings have taken place, it is mainly a matter of confirming the agreement reached in March on the key elements of the text (see EUROPE B13151A18).
Once it enters into force (probably in the autumn), the EU will be able to impose various countermeasures on...