On Tuesday 30 August, French secretary of state for trade Matthias Fekl announced that at the informal EU trade ministers meeting in Bratislava on 22-23 September he would ask for a halt to the EU-US free trade (TTIP) negotiations so that these negotiations could later be resumed on a better basis.
"There is no longer any political support in France [for the TTIP negotiations]. France is calling for a pure, simple and definitive halt to these negotiations", Fekl said on French radio...