On Friday 10 March, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström and the economic affairs ministers of the 10 countries in the ASEAN area agreed in Manila, Philippines to take new measures to relaunch the talks for an EU-ASEAN free trade agreement.
Malmström and her Asian counterparts discussed the next steps for the resumption of these negotiations and tasked their administrations with developing "a framework encompassing the parameters of a future ASEAN-EU free trade...