“Trust is a bit gone”, summed up the chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA), Bernd Lange (S&D, Germany), on Monday 20 September, after the announcement last week of the creation of a defence alliance between the United States, the UK and Australia.
The MEP believes that this event will have an effect on the negotiations on the EU-Australia trade agreement. “I guess it will be much more complicated to conclude it”, he repeated.
At a press...