Top trade officials break ranks to admit the bloc cannot match the US and China in structures for economic security
Sources say the doctrine, which was announced last week by trade chief Maroš Šefčovič, will allow bureaucrats to coordinate between existing and future instruments as they seek to make Europe’s fragmented arsenal quicker and more efficient to deploy.
Yet, after spending much of 2025 in the crosshairs of superpowers’ more advanced and direct weapons – economic and otherwise – there is a growing sense that Europe may still be bringing a knife to a gunfight.
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