The European Commission circulated to EU Member States, on Tuesday 23 May, a draft of the joint statement to be adopted at the fourth EU-US Trade and Technology Council on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 May(see EUROPE B13077A11). The subjects of export restrictions, investment screening and economic coercion, which are dear to Washington, take up a lot of space in this document, a copy of which was given to EUROPE.
However, the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) expressed, on...