European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström tweeted that ‘important progress’ was made in the talks on an Association Agreement between the EU and the Mercosur bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) after a ministerial assessment meeting on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 July in Brussels, the first since the end of January.
As we were going to press. no other information had filtered out about the outcome of the ministerial meeting on the follow-up to the negotiations, as...