The European Union needs to step up its game to support the interests of EU businesses, to counteract the increasingly agressive China and the at times more self-centred United States.
We must reach a situation where EU's trade and economic interests are placed at the heart of our foreign and security policy objectives.
It's important to note that our common market is in itself a powerful tool that can be used to achieve EU's foreign and security policy goals.
Despite its ...
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Urmas Paet was formerly foreign minister of Estonia, and is now an MEP on the European Parliament's foreign affairs, security and defence, committees, and a substitute on the international trade committee.