A new EU Foreign Economic Policy to counter global disorder
The pledge to develop a new foreign economic policy sits at the heart of the European Commission’s Political Guidelines published in July 2024. This ambition has become even more pressing in light of US President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ trade policy, signalling a disruptive shift in global economic relations. The new Trump administration’s stated aim is to bring back manufacturing jobs, rebuild the US industrial base, and onshore a broad range of critical value chains. At the core of this agenda is a single