BRUSSELS: The Euro-pean Union on Monday called for “serious” reform of the World Trade Organisation, ahead of a high-level meeting this week in Cameroon.
The WTO ministerial conference, its supreme decision-making body, will take place in Yaounde on March 26-29.
It is usually held every other year.
There has long been a desire to reform the WTO, but this week’s talks come at a particularly tense moment for the world economy, with global trade tensions, US tariffs and disruptions caused by the Middle East war.
“For the European Union, this meeting is a defining moment,” EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic said.
The EU would be “insisting on a serious reform....
