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EU public-procurement rules to top 2020 trade agenda

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 02 Jan 2020 04:41
  • 27 Dec 2019 06:30

A contentious EU plan that requires governments worldwide to give European companies access to public-procurement tenders or have their bidders faced with restrictions in the bloc will be at the center of the negotiating agenda in 2020.

Croatia, which will chair meetings between national governments in the first half of

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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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