Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said on Friday 27 January that she was concerned about protectionists policies decreed by the new US president, Donald Trump, but was confident that the EU-United States free-trade negotiations (TTIP) were simply experiencing a pause.
In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde at the weekend, Malmstrom feared the impact of Trump’s protectionist decisions – the United States’ withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TTP) and the...