The future of the multilateral trading system, negotiations at the WTO, free-trade talks underway between the EU and third countries (Mercosur and Mexico in particular) and the filtering of foreign investments into strategic European sectors was central to the agenda of an informal meeting of EU trade ministers, in Sofia on Tuesday 27 February.
Under the chairmanship of the Bulgarian Minister for the economy, Emil Karanikolov, the ministers were to discuss the current problems with the...