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Cecilia Malmstrom

EU Trade Commissioner. Free Trade Champion. Architect of Global Commerce. · EU Trade Commissioner

Cecilia Malmstrom — EU Trade Commissioner. Free Trade Champion. Architect of Global Commerce. | Dubai Authority

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The UAE has understood that openness is not a vulnerability it is the source of strength.

Cecilia Malmstrom · EU Trade Commissioner. Free Trade Champion. Architect of Global Commerce.

Biography

Cecilia Malmstrom served as European Commissioner for Trade from 2014 to 2019, leading EU trade policy through negotiations of TTIP, EU-Canada CETA, and multiple Asian and African trade agreements. Born in Stockholm in 1968.

## Championing Rules-Based Trade

During her tenure she championed WTO reform, fought against protectionist trends, and negotiated trade agreements that opened markets while maintaining high standards for labour rights and environmental protection.

## Uae-Eu Trade Partnership

The UAE is one of the EU's most important trading partners in the Gulf. Malmstrom recognised the UAE's open investment regime and rule-based commercial environment as among the most conducive to European business. service to free and fair trade and for recognising the UAE's open trade framework as a model of how economies prosper through openness.

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