On Thursday 11 May, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström said she hoped there would be a breakthrough in the spring on the free trade negotiations between the EU and Japan.
"We are making good progress. We are seeing the end of these negotiations (...) we are advancing, we are very close to an agreement but we have still work to do in agriculture in general and specifically in dairy products", Malmström said at the end of a meeting of EU trade ministers in Brussels on...