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Comment: Hard-won compromise on EU dual-use export controls looks like temporary fix

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 26 Nov 2020 10:48
  • 26 Nov 2020 10:48
A compromise to revamp the EU’s export-control rules for goods with both civilian and military applications — reached after long and tough talks between lawmakers and governments — doesn’t seem like it will bring the much-needed regulatory certainty for the bloc’s tech companies.
It took more than a year to seal

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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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