According to Politico, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Lithuania have jointly called on the European Commission to unleash tougher trade measures against countries — read: China — flooding European markets and distorting global trade.
Their joint proposal pushes for more frequent trade investigations, stronger WTO enforcement, and a brand new “resilience tool” for situations where existing trade defenses simply don’t cut it.
China isn’t named directly in the document, but nobody’s pretending otherwise.
French President Macron put it plainly — the EU should take a page from America’s playbook on protecting strategic industries.
With a Brussels strategy debate on China scheduled for next Friday, the timing couldn’t be more deliberate.
Europe’s gloves are coming off.
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