Speaking to the European Council on Thursday 19 October, France's President Emmanuel Macron underlined the need for a trade policy that is"balanced between openness and protection" in order to rebuild people's trust in trade, which largely started to be lost with the CETA free trade agreement between the EU and Canada.
"We must meet the internal challenge of rebuilding people's trust in trade agreements as this is now virtually non-existent, as we have seen with CETA, and we must meet...