Brussels, 13/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - France, which is keen to exclude audiovisual services from the Commission's negotiating mandate, is threatening to block the launch of transatlantic talks.
The day before European trade ministers gather in Luxembourg on 14 June, when the mandate to be given to the Commission for negotiating a free-trade agreement with the United States is to be validated by consensus, France is sticking to its guns to keep the audiovisual sector out of the mandate....