MEPs debate new trade rules seek to deter foreign powers from bullying the EU or member states into policy changes using economic coercion and enable the EU to take countermeasures. The Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) seeks to protect the EU’s and member states’ sovereignty in a geopolitical environment where trade and investment are increasingly weaponised by foreign powers. The regulation would enable the EU to respond, in line with international law and as a last resort, if the EU or a member state is blackmailed economically by a non-EU country trying to influence a particular policy choice or stance.

statement

Strasbourg

debate

plenary session

EU trade policy (T)

ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Katarína (NI, SK)

OLEKAS, Juozas (S&D, LT)

KARLSBRO, Karin (Renew, SE)

MAZUREK, Beata (ECR, PL)

BELKA, Marek (S&D, PL)

MAŽYLIS, Liudas (EPP, LT)

WALLACE, Mick (The Left, IE)

WINZIG, Angelika (EPP, AT)

MARIANI, Thierry (ID, FR)

VEDRENNE, Marie-Pierre (Renew, FR)

ROUGÉ, André (ID, FR)

HAIDER, Roman (ID, AT)

CAÑAS, Jordi (Renew, ES)

ASIMAKOPOULOU, Anna-Michelle (EPP, EL)

MARQUES, Margarida (S&D, PT)

BUCHHEIT, Markus (ID, DE)

HOOGEVEEN, Michiel (ECR, NL)

SCHALLER-BAROSS, Ernő (NI, HU)

STAVROU, Eleni (EPP, CY)

Economic coercion by third countries: MEPs debate