Almost ten years that this file drags on the tables of the European institutions. France intends to take advantage of the tricolor presidency of the EU, from January 1 to June 30, 2022, to finally see the international procurement instrument (IPI) come to fruition. A tool, under discussion since 2012, intended to strengthen the Union's trade policy. Franck Riester, the French Minister Delegate in charge of Foreign Trade and Attractiveness, referred to it on Monday on Public Senate, saying he hoped that this “
very clear legal tool
” enters into force during the French presidency, in the first half of 2022. With this mechanism, the EU "will be able to
force countries (outside the EU, editor's note) to open their own public markets, or otherwise we will close ours to their products
», Explained the minister.
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Because, today, denounces Franck Riester, access to international public markets is asymmetric.
"We are in a completely crazy system, where we open our own public markets, we Europeans,
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