On Friday 9 March, Paraguay's Foreign Affairs Minister Eladio Loizaga said he hoped an agreement on the trade section of an association agreement between the EU and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) could be concluded "in three to four weeks". Paraguay is currently chairing Mercosur.
Despite the lack of breakthrough at the end of the last session of technical level negotiations, in Asunción from 20 February to 2 March (see EUROPE 11973), "there is still a political...