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Emmanuel Macron proposes that EU, US, Japan and China plus G20 put together basis of WTO reform

Brussels, 30/05/2018 (Agence Europe)

At the opening session of the ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in Paris on Wednesday 30 May, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, called for the multilateral trading system to be preserved, but also for the WTO to be reformed.

Arguing in favour of “strong multilateralism”, Macron called for the WTO framework to be preserved yet reformed in depth, first and foremost to “improve the application of its rules” (our translation...