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Washington: an EU-US trade deal could be worth €119 billion (Photo: prameya)

US treasury boss to press EU on trade this WEEK

Trade and tax are likely to take centre stage when US treasury secretary Jacob Lew visits EU leaders this week.

Lew will meet with European Council and Commission heads Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels on Monday (7 April), before meeting European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi.

Meetings with Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schauble and French counterpart Pierre Moscovici top of the bill on Tuesday.

Having also visited Beijing, the 48-hour EU tour i...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Washington: an EU-US trade deal could be worth €119 billion (Photo: prameya)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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