MEP Bernd Lange (S&D, Germany) has circulated to colleagues his first draft of the report on the anti-coercion tool proposed by the European Commission last December(see EUROPE B12849A1). His report broadly retains the nature of the tool proposed by the European Commission, with a slight strengthening of its scope.
Economic coercion means “coercion through a third-country action or measure affecting trade or investment”, according to Bernd Lange. The European Commission had proposed a...