EXTERNAL ACTION / Mexico

Hopes of agreement in principle at end of week on trade section of revised global EU-Mexico agreement

Brussels, 20/02/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 19 February, Mexico's trade minister Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal confirmed that European commissioners Cecilia Malmström (Trade) and Phil Hogan (Agriculture) could visit Mexico after the 9th round of talks on the trade section of the update of the global EU-Mexico agreement, which will come to an end on 22 February, in order to sketch the outlines of a political agreement.

Guajardo Villarreal gave assurances on Monday that the negotiators had progressed on several issues...