European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström will meet the foreign affairs ministers of the countries of Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) following the EU/Latin American and Caribbean (CELAC) ministerial meeting on Wednesday 18 July, to take stock of progress in negotiations on the trade plank of an EU/Mercosur association agreement since their meeting of 30 January (see other article).
However, no breakthrough is expected, due to the “very limited progress” at the latest...