On Wednesday 18 October, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström gave assurances that the European Commission and Mexican government were working on everything in order to finalise, by the end of 2017, an agreement in principle on updating the EU-Mexico global agreement of 2000.
"The sooner the talks are completed, the sooner the benefits can come – though speed should not come at the expense of substance", Malmström stated at a hearing on the EU-Mexico global agreement...