Under the impetus of the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, talks between Member States to draw up a European instrument on international public procurement continued at a sustained pace in the second half of 2019, but they are not yet close to conclusion, national experts meeting on Friday 6 December in the EU Council's Trade Policy Committee ('TPC') admitted.
Last March, in the context of debates on Sino-European relations (see EUROPE B12220A1), European leaders...