{"id":489146,"date":"2025-10-10T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489146\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:53:18","slug":"free-trade-is-over-it-is-dead-former-french-minister-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489146\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Free trade is over, it is dead\u2019, former French minister declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Former French finance minister Eric Lombard accused the United States and China of killing free trade and called for the European Union to pursue a more \u201cnationalistic\u201d approach to trade policy in response during a speech in Paris on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFree trade is over, it is dead,\u201d Lombard told a summit on competitiveness organised by Politico in the French capital.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He urged France and Europe to \u201cwake up\u201d to the fact that the US and China were employing unfair trade practices that deviate from free trade and the rules of the World Trade Organization.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis new world is a lot more brutal,\u201d he said. \u201cIf Europe doesn\u2019t protect itself, between the Chinese dumping and American tariffs, we will disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Europe needs to follow a more \u201cnationalistic vision\u201d when dealing with the US and China and be prepared to take tougher measures against both powers, according to the former French finance chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former French finance minister Eric Lombard accused the United States and China of killing free trade and called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1393,1395,32,7151,2000,299,2557,1699,36,34982,26261,1411,22381,712,161486,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-489146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-anti-coercion-instrument","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eric-lombard","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-commission","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-french","18":"tag-laurent-saint-martin","19":"tag-paris","20":"tag-politico","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-trade-bazooka","23":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115351625460425467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}