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Aslak Berg, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think tank, said it was telling that while Mr Trump referred to “trade deals” at the White House, Sir Keir was careful to call them “economic deals”.
“The traditional US stance is that EU food regulations are unacceptable but it’s not really what’s on the table here,” he told The Telegraph, “You’re likely to see something on tech regulation and artificial intelligence.”

“It would be an obstacle in any future free trade negotiations if you try to negotiate a ‘full-fat’ free trade agreement with the US,” warns Aslak Berg, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform.

John Springford, of the Centre for European Reform, suggested a narrow, tech-focused deal could include the UK promising to adopt a similar approach to artificial intelligence regulation, for example – where the US has strongly criticised the EU’s more stringent legislation. “That could be preferable to getting into the weeds of a free trade agreement,” he said.

“How many foreign mining concerns are going to want to put money into those sorts of circumstances?” Ian Bond at the Centre for European Reform asks.“We are a long way from the first shovel going into the ground, let alone from minerals in usable quantities coming out of the earth.“There are already significant sources of the rare earths and most of the other minerals that Ukraine has in other friendly countries like Canada, Australia, Chile.

 It is a tsunami that has already damaged German industry, which is losing its market share in the automotive, cleantech and civil aviation sectors and according to a study by the think-tank Centre for European Reform, published in mid-January, "China's macroeconomic imbalances now directly infringe on German industrial interests."

“The EU and India are lagging behind China in the development of AI, this could be a fruitful area of co-operation,” according to Anunita Chandrasekar from the Centre for European Reform....“Collaboration between start-ups in critical sectors such as quantum computing, EV batteries and semiconductor manufacturing is a topic of discussion between the two blocs," Chandrasekar added.

Eine Lösung wie im Coronafonds hätte den Vorteil, dass die EU Gegenleistungen verlangen könnte, sodass die Europäer ihre Ausgaben besser koordinieren und so die Effizienz der Militärausgaben verbessern, sagt der Ökonom Sander Tordoir.