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No repurposing of trade tools for economic security, EU’s Redonnet says

By Oscar Pandiello and Lewis Crofts ( December 9, 2025, 11:59 GMT | Insight) -- The EU won’t repurpose its trade instruments or the Foreign Subsidies Regulation but will apply them through an economic-security lens, senior officials have said. Denis Redonnet said on Tuesday that tools built for a freer-trade era must now account for geopolitical pressures without changing their legal foundations. Competition officials cautioned that the FSR should not become a trade-defense weapon.The EU’s trade-defense instruments and newer tools such as the Foreign Subsidies Regulation don’t require a repurposing of their core objectives, but they must be adapted to the bloc’s new economic-security reality and the growing weaponization of trade, a top EU official has said....

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