The Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of Foreign Trade, Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad, welcomes the agreement reached last night in trilogue on the regulation relating to the European anti-coercion. This instrument strengthens the protection of the Union and its Member States once morest economic coercion. It is key in the assertive strategy of European trade policy.
Discussions on this instrument began under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union and France strongly supported the negotiations in order to provide the Union with an effective tool to defend European companies once morest the coercive economic practices of States. third.
On Tuesday 28 March, these discussions resulted in an agreement between the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament (trilogue) in favor of an ambitious and dissuasive instrument. It will strengthen the Union’s ability to defend itself once morest economic coercion through a wide range of countermeasures.
Olivier Becht: “I welcome this agreement on a new anti-coercion instrument. It is one more tool at the service of our strategy for a less naïve European trade. »