23/01/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 23 January, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said the European Commission was expected to present the EU-Singapore free trade agreement text "in the spring", ahead of its signature and ratification. "The technical details must be translated. We should be able to present the agreement text in the spring" (Ed: after legal scrubbing and translation into all the EU languages), Malmström told the European Parliament's international trade committee. The first free trade agreement negotiated and finalised by the EU since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU-Singapore free trade agreement, concluded in December 2012 and finalised in October 2014 (Ed: after closure of its chapter on investment protection) was the subject of an EU Court of Justice opinion on the division of competences between the EU and its member states. (EH)