Review of the EU-US TTC: a policy of sma • Table.Briefings

On 5th April 2024, Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Europe fit for the Digital Age, and Commissioner for Competition, Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of an Economy that works for People, and Commissioner for Trade, and Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market, participate to the EU-US Trade and Technology Council in Leuven (Belgium): group photo, doorsteps, roundtable and press briefing — Met for the sixth and, for the time being, last EU-US TTC: US Ministers Gina Raimondo and Antony Blinken, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Executive Vice Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager and Commissioner Thierry Breton (from left).

The EU-US TTC Trade and Technology Council has brought visible successes in technology policy. The Americans were more dismissive when it came to trade policy. Nevertheless, the German industry wants to continue the dialog.

The most important thing about the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (EU-US TTC) is that it exists at all, says Bernd Lange (SPD). The Chairman of the Trade Committee in the European Parliament remembers Donald Trump’s time in office when there was a standstill and no official contacts. „I had to meet secretly with my acquaintance from the US Department of Commerce,“ says Lange.

Review of the EU-US TTC: a policy of small steps

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