Brussels, 18/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - Rather than reduce trade barriers, as they are supposed to do given their commitments made at the G20, the EU's main trading partners over a one-year period introduced 131 new protectionist measures, in addition to the 333 restrictive measures brought in at the beginniong of the 2008 crisis and still in force end 2010, of which only 40 were discarded in 2011.
In his most recent annual report on trade barriers, partly unveiled this week by the...