On Tuesday 8 November the French foreign trade minister, Matthias Fekl, unveiled a raft of proposals in Paris that he will soon be sending to his European counterparts and the European Commission with a view to making the EU’s trade policy more transparent and shifting it into a more sustainable development approach.
The recent crisis around the EU-Canada free trade deal, CETA, shows that public opinion does not trust the EU’s trade policy due to rising inequality in the EU itself and...