Several European finance ministers called on the European Union to remedy its weaknesses and capitalise on its strengths instead of engaging in a race towards protectionism, if it wants to continue to compete with its main economic rivals, they said, on Monday 20 January, upon their arrival at the Eurogroup meeting, at the same time as Donald Trump’s inauguration was taking place in Washington.
“We must play to our strengths”, declared the President of the Eurogroup, Paschal Donohoe,...