The European Commission’s proposals, unveiled on Wednesday 27 May, refine the concepts around which the Union’s future trade strategy are expected to be structured - open strategic autonomy, sustainability, reciprocity - and the ambition to dictate to the EU’s economic partners, both bilaterally and internationally, its new rules of the game.
In recent weeks, the European institutions, the Union’s chancelleries, and stakeholders have started a debate on the priorities that will...