As part of her visit to South-East Asia, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström will stop in Manila on Thursday 9 March, where she will take part in a meeting the following day with the economic and/or trade ministers of the 10 countries in the ASEAN area – the objective being to discuss how to relaunch the plan for an EU-ASEAN bloc to bloc free trade agreement.
Launched in 2007, the negotiations for a regional trade agreement between the EU and the ASEAN (Brunei,...