05/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - EU-Singapore free-trade agreement. At his meeting, on Monday 5 September, with the prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Long, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the Commission, expressed his confidence that the “constructive” negotiations underway for the conclusion of a free-trade agreement and a partnership and association agreement between the EU and Singapore could be successfully finalised very soon. (L.C./transl.fl)