New Mandate Draft Removes Defense Procurement, Seeks New Safeguards

摘要

A May 21 revision to the European Union's confidential draft mandate for the upcoming Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TUP) negotiations makes few changes from an earlier draft circulated April 29, in an apparent signal that Ireland, which drafted the revision in its role as president of the Council, believes a compromise is within reach. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the commission drafted the revised mandate. The Irish council presidency, not the commission, also drafted the first mandate revision circulated on April 29.