Industry, Foreign and Economy ministers from 15 EU Member States co-signed a letter to the European Commission on Tuesday 21 June calling for new bilateral and regional trade deals to make better use of the EU’s “potential to shape the global trade agenda and its rules”.
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, the signatories stress the need to “shore up alliances through trade” while welcoming the discussions and progress on transatlantic cooperation in the Trade and...