Twice shy?
to avoid a second bruising of its trade relations with the us, the European Union ( eu ) is considering three options after the World Trade Organisation ( wto ) ruled against its recent ban on hormonally-treated us beef products. The first time the eu had trade clashes with its most important transatlantic neighbour over bananas seems to have been embarrassing enough.
The eu recently adopted a paper setting out three possible approaches that will now be debated by its legislative arms