In Brussels on Wednesday 17 October, European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said that her meeting the day before with the US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, had mainly been a “stock-taking exercise”.
She confirmed that any negotiation with the United States must respect the following sequence: a scoping exercise followed by a mandate request to the member states, adding once again that the negotiations were not yet underway.
“We have said that we are prepared several times to...