Brussels, 11/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - Late afternoon on Wednesday 11 May, the European Commission confirmed that the EU and the Mercosur bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, as Venezuela is sitting the free-trade negotiations out) had that day exchanged offers on market access covering goods, services and public procurement, as announced on 8 April (see EUROPE 11528).
This is the first exchange of offers since 2004 in the framework of these free-trade negotiations which were...