The European Commission intends to enter into negotiations on behalf of the EU with the United States on a non-binding instrument on “a programme to defeat the global pandemic” of Covid-19, according to an EU Council Presidency briefing note to Member State delegations dated 22 April.
Already approved by the EU Council’s Public Health Working Group, it was submitted on Wednesday 27 April to the EU27 Ambassadors to the EU (Coreper), who launched a written procedure to approve the...