Former French finance minister Eric Lombard accused the United States and China of killing free trade and called for the European Union to pursue a more “nationalistic” approach to trade policy in response during a speech in Paris on Thursday.
“Free trade is over, it is dead,” Lombard told a summit on competitiveness organised by Politico in the French capital.
He urged France and Europe to “wake up” to the fact that the US and China were employing unfair trade practices that deviate from free…