A necessary agreement. The draft EU-US agreement goes well beyond the connections built by the EU with other countries like Russia, Japan, India, China etc. or groups of countries like Mercosur, and it has to take into account the global backdrop and multilateral bodies like the WTO. The connections between the EU and United States will become so close that they presuppose a bilateral framework and atmosphere of mutual trust (see my column in newsletter issue 10835).
Multilateral...