EXTERNAL ACTION / Wto

Faced with urgency, Member States shall instruct Commission to work on a plan B to save Appellate Body

Brussels, 27/05/2019 (Agence Europe)

Acknowledging the failure to engage Washington in reforming the World Trade Organization's (WTO) dispute settlement system, European trade ministers concede that an interim solution must be developed to prevent the Appellate Body from disappearing. 

The ministers meeting in the EU Trade Council on Monday 27 May noted this: to date, European attempts to engage Washington both bilaterally and multilaterally have failed(see EUROPE B12262A12). 

Indeed, for nearly 2 years, Washington has still...