EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Trade

MEPs in turn review EU trade policy priorities in light of COVID-19 pandemic

Brussels, 21/04/2020 (Agence Europe)

After the European Trade Ministers (see EUROPE B12468A15), European Commissioner Phil Hogan and the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) in turn laid the first elements of a European trade response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday 21 April.

In a first meeting by videoconference, MEPs drew initial lessons for the short and medium term.

The pandemic “has changed the global picture in relation to everything”, said Mr Hogan, convinced...