The EU-Canada free-trade agreement (CETA), free-trade negotiations with the United States (TTIP) and updating EU trade defence instruments will be central to the informal meeting of EU trade ministers in Bratislava on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 September.
At this meeting, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, accompanied by Canadian Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, hopes to dispel member states’ final doubts about CETA and so secure the signing of the agreement, probably at an...