On Friday 4 May, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström gave assurances that the negotiations on the trade section of an association agreement between the EU and the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) were "not put in the fridge" with the upcoming general elections in Brazil in October, saying she hoped for an agreement in principle "by the end of 2018".
These talks, which were launched in 1999 and relaunched in 2016 after being frozen for around ten...