The EU Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, called for stronger economic ties with the United States in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington on Wednesday 12 April. “I am a fully committed transatlanticist”, he said at the start of his speech. For him, the Baltic countries, where he comes from, have a special historical link with the United States and are fully convinced that “both sides of the Atlantic - and indeed, the global community – fare...