US President Joe Biden will welcome the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to Washington on Friday 20 October for an EU-US summit. The end of negotiations on the agreement on critical minerals could be announced on this occasion - discussions have been taking place regularly for several weeks.
There is greater doubt about the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium (GSA), which is due to be...