EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and US Trade Representative Susan Schwab held a very short press conference immediately following European Commission President José-Manuel Barroso’s visit to Washington DC on Monday. Mandelson said”we’re in the end game” of a multilateral trade negotiation that Schwab described as resembling”three-dimensional chess”.

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It must be frustrating being the President of the European Commission: a whole lot of responsibility but very little power. When Jose Manuel Barroso meets George W Bush at the White House next week he may be able to offer some advice to a US President who has just lost control of Congress and is [...]

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