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EU to defend free trade despite Trump
By EUobserver
EU leaders will defend free trade in their summit statement next Thursday, according to a draft seen by the Bloomberg news agency. “The EU remains strongly committed to a robust trade policy in an open and rules-based multilateral trading system,” at a time "when protectionist tendencies are reappearing" they will say. The declaration is to come after US leader Donald Trump outlined an "America first" protectionist agenda.