Member states’ ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) reached a qualified majority agreement on Tuesday 13 December on the Council’s position for the trialogue negotiations with the European Parliament on the proposal to modernise the EU’s trade defence instruments (TDIs), tabled by the European Commission in April 2013 (see EUROPE 10824).
“This is a major breakthrough. Our trade defence instruments have remained largely the same for over 15 years but the situation on world markets has...