08/02/2017 (Agence Europe) – Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, said on Tuesday 7 February that he hoped negotiations would resume with the administration of the new president, Donald Trump on TTIP, the EU-US free-trade agreement. “TTIP has not been mentioned by the new US administration. So we still expect that it will be possible to relaunch discussions and to create a sustainable business environment” between the two sides of the Atlantic, Katainen said at a conference in Berlin. The Commission and the previous US administration headed by Barack Obama were unable to conclude the TTIP negotiations that began in July 2013, even though significant progress had been made after 15 rounds of talks (see EUROPE 11705). (EH)