Continuing our look at the subjects that are at the centre of European activity at the beginning of this New Year 2013 (see this column in yesterday's EUROPE), it is important to underline that two key sectors of EU activity will be profoundly transformed - (1) the common commercial policy; (2) the package of guidelines that replace - for better or worse, depending on the case - the common energy policy.
Commercial policy - from reciprocity to industrial recovery. Nothing will be as it was...