German chancellor Angela Merkel's plans to boost transatlantic trade and investment will only have a real chance of success if the European Parliament and US Congress are more involved, the EU ambassador to the US has said.
"Our thinking on EU-US relations has been unduly focused on the US administration and hasn't paid sufficient attention to Congress," said John Bruton at a debate organised by the Centre for European Studies on Tuesday (6 February).
He said that a purely "admini...
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