EU Trade Policy in Light of the New Industrial Strategy for Europe

摘要

The EU trade policy, essential to a prosperous European economy and industry, can play an important role in tackling the major challenges of our times relating to sustain-ability and fair trade issues. Solutions negotiated at the multilateral level, and importantly at the WTO, such as the trade liberalization in environmental goods, an international code of conduct on SOEs and improved WTO legal disicplines on subsidies, would most probably best address these challenges on a lasting basis. These negotiations will however require strenuous medium- to long-term efforts, that should also importantly encompass the restoration of the WTO dispute settlement system.