Inaugural joint statement of US-EU Trade and Technology Council published

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The White House has published a joint statement following the US-EU Trade and Technology Council's (TTC) first meeting in Pittsburgh on 29 September 2021. The US and EU confirm the TCC’s objectives to ‘coordinate approaches to key global technology, economic, and trade issues; and to deepen transatlantic trade and economic relations, basing policies on hared democratic values’. The parties are also keen to progress digital transformation and aim to address the misuse of technology so that information manipulation and interference do not occur within society.