Brussels, 03/04/2012 (Agence Europe) - After Singapore and Malaysia, the EU is expected to negotiate a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with a third partner in South East Asia, Vietnam. The ASEAN region, however, hopes to resume bloc-to-bloc talks with the EU, after such talks were frozen in 2009.
The meeting of economy ministers from the ten ASEAN countries (Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) on 31 March, in Phnom...