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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11716

2 February 2017
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 27
EXTERNAL ACTION / Mexico
Acceleration of talks for review of free trade agreement with EU
Brussels, 01/02/2017 (Agence Europe)

During a phone conversation on Tuesday 31 January, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström and Mexico's Minister of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo agreed to accelerate negotiations for updating the EU-Mexico free trade agreement. These negotiations were launched in May, and Malmström and Guajardo have now set out a new timetable for them.

Two sessions of technical level talks have thus been planned before the summer – from 3 to 7 April and from 26 to 29 June.  In between,...

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