>France has leapt upon the departure of the market-oriented British from the EU to forge a more defensive trade playbook that emphasizes the protection of domestic champions in the face of competition from China and the U.S. In particular, Paris has been at the forefront of insisting that Europe must not be undercut by rivals from nations with laxer environmental and labor standards. It is Macron who has vetoed a trade pact that the EU secured with the giant beef-exporting nations of the South American Mercosur bloc, saying more must be done to prevent deforestation in the Amazon.
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>France has leapt upon the departure of the market-oriented British from the EU to forge a more defensive trade playbook that emphasizes the protection of domestic champions in the face of competition from China and the U.S. In particular, Paris has been at the forefront of insisting that Europe must not be undercut by rivals from nations with laxer environmental and labor standards. It is Macron who has vetoed a trade pact that the EU secured with the giant beef-exporting nations of the South American Mercosur bloc, saying more must be done to prevent deforestation in the Amazon.
Good tbh