At the end June 2025 the European Commission presented several scenarios of building the EU’s network of trade alliances, with the one deemed the most promising being the link-up between the EU and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)[1], a regional trade pact of 11 Pacific Rim countries and the UK[2]. If created this alliance would give rise to one of the largest free trade platforms in the global economy that rivals the likes of the Regional Co...
