On Wednesday 8 April, the Member States' Ambassadors to the European Union (Coreper) validated the EU Council's negotiating position on the revision of the European regulation on the application and enforcement of international trade rules.
Last December, the paralysis of the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) - and thus the lack of an effective dispute resolution mechanism - had led the Commission to propose this revision to improve its trade defence (see EUROPE...