Not all parts of the EU-Singapore agreement fall within the EU’s exclusive competence and therefore the agreement cannot be concluded without the participation of all of the member states, in the view of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU in an opinion delivered on Wednesday 21 December. The Court’s decision, called its “opinion”, will be delivered in 2017.
The text of a free-trade agreement, negotiated between the Commission and the Singaporean authorities and...