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Comment: EU trade anti-coercion tool faces months of delay over legislators' power struggle

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 03 Jan 2023 10:41
  • 29 Dec 2022 14:55
Wrangling over an EU trade weapon seen as sorely needed to address hostile economic actions by China and other global rivals looks set to be a focal point of 2023 amid an ongoing power struggle over it between EU governments and lawmakers.

Talks will stretch into the coming year on the

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Joanna Sopinska

Senior Correspondent


Joanna covers trade in Brussels. Formerly trade editor of EU Trade Insights, she has many years' experience reporting on trade, investment policy and foreign affairs. Before that, she spent nine years at Europolitics news agency writing on trade, agriculture policy and foreign affairs. Before moving to Brussels in 2006, Joanna worked as an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Relations (PISM) in Warsaw.

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