EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia has urged the bloc to use the financial crisis to develop a common foreign economic policy, urging the union to speak with one voice where money is a key issue, such as in the fight against climate change.
"Too often the EU's voice on key issues at the global level is fractured and we fail to influence policy debates as effectively as we might" said the commissioner Monday (6 April) in a speech on developing an economic forei...
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