{"id":19439,"date":"2022-02-22T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=19439"},"modified":"2022-02-23T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:13:11","slug":"eu-u-s-trade-and-tech-council-to-meet-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/eu-u-s-trade-and-tech-council-to-meet-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"EU, U.S. Trade And Tech Council To Meet In May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has confirmed that the U.S.-European Trade and Technology Council (TTC) will hold its second meeting in France between May 15 and 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Vestager, the forum established last year is important &#8220;for global leadership across a range of key issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the forum would address shared challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The TTC was created last year for a number of reasons, including to improve transatlantic trade relations and help allied democracies compete better with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The TCC&#8217;s other objectives include creating a more unified approach to curbing the power of tech giants and setting standards and rules for the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the first meeting, which took place on September 29 in Pittsburgh, various issues were raised, including the global chip shortage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prominent attendees include U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Tai, EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis and EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/eu-us-trade-technology-body-meet-may-15-16-france-2022-02-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-European Trade and Technology Council will hold its second meeting in France in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-public-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19463,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions\/19463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}