In comparison to his state of the European Union speech of September 2017 (see EUROPE 11624), the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, had little to say about trade subjects on Wednesday 12 September.
Against a backdrop of serious international trade tension, it came as no surprise that Juncker confirmed his unfailing commitment to multilateralism at international level, with a commitment of Europe as an open, but not a free continent, and called for the swift...