Press release: Mandelson sets out EU trade agenda for 2008

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has set out a policy platform for EU trade policy in 2008. Speaking at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Mandelson argued that 2008 confronted the EU with a year of global economic uncertainty and political transition in China, Russia and the United States. He said the "need to build stability and continuity through these changes will be one of the EU's core diplomatic challenges in 2008".