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Comment: Tighter EU procurement rules in sight as France pushes for a deal

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 04 Jan 2022 05:52
  • 04 Jan 2022 08:44
France could get the decade-long talks on tighter EU foreign procurement rules over the finish line as it takes charge this week of legislative negotiations in the Council of the EU for six months.

President Emmanuel Macron wants to crack this hard nut by mid-March, which would cast him as a

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Joanna Sopinska

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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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