On Tuesday 23 January, the trade ministers of the European Union countries set out their priorities for the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the World Trade Organization, to be held in Abu Dhabi at the end of February. The primary objective is to make progress on the reform of the organisation, which the EU had already insisted on at the previous ministerial meeting in Geneva in June 2022. More broadly, Belgium’s Minister for Foreign Trade, Hadja Lahbib, stressed the importance of...