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EU trade policy, which is essential to a prosperous European economy and industry, has an important role to play in tackling the major challenges of our times relating to worsening geo-economic and trade tensions, enduring global sustainability issues and a deteriorating multilateral order.
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Malorie Schaus, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
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Schaus, M. EU Trade Policy in Light of the New Industrial Strategy for Europe. Intereconomics 56, 144–149 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-021-0970-0
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