Following the meeting of the trade ministers of the EU, in Bratislava on Friday 23 September, Slovak Minister for the Economy and President-in-exercise of the Council Peter Ziga admitted that concluding the EU-US free-trade negotiations (TTI) before the end of the term in office of the American President, Barack Obama, at the beginning of January 2017, was not a realistic option.
Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom also said that this appeared increasingly unlikely. "However, the...