TDI and IPI : Italian Presidency pushes for ’plan B’

Faced with deep divisions among member states over the reform of the EU’s trade defence instruments (TDIs) and its international procurement policy, the Italian EU Presidency has called for a 'plan B'. “We need alternative avenues,” said Carlo Calenda, Italy's deputy minister for economic development at a press conference following the Trade Council, on 21 November in Brussels. “There is not enough trust between the two factions in the Council” to reach a compromise, he added, insisting that the current…