EU Should Stand Up for Vietnam’s People

Expand European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem holds a news conference in Brussels, Belgium June 1, 2018. © 2018 Reuters Cecilia Malmström, the European Union’s trade commissioner, will hold talks on Monday with Trần Tuấn Anh, Vietnam’s trade and industry minister, about concluding a long negotiated Free Trade Agreement. Based on the EU Commission’s figures, the pact could boost Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 15 percent. The EU says it has designed its trade policy as a tool to promote human rights in line with its founding treaty and pledges by EU foreign ministers. The…

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