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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10046

23 December 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Council gives go-ahead to individual free trade agreements with certain ASEAN countries

Brussels, 22/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - Negotiations on a bloc-to-bloc free trade agreement between the EU and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN: Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), launched in May 2007, will remain in cold storage, where they have been since May 2007. On Tuesday 22 December, the European Commission was given the go-ahead by the Council to begin negotiations on individual free trade agreements...

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