Meeting in Brussels on Friday 11 November, the trade ministers of the EU took “a step further” towards an agreement on the planned modernisation of the trade defence instruments of the EU, tabled by the European Commission in April 2013 (see EUROPE 10824), the Slovak minister for the economy and President-in-exercise of the Council, Peter Ziga, summed up after the work session, expressing confidence that this agreement will be struck before the December European Council.
“We are very...