The European Commission has just concluded a week of negotiations with Australia – from 6 to 10 February – for their future Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Between now and the next round of negotiations in April, which will be held on the fifteenth, both sides agreed to keep in touch and to continue working in the form of “inter-sessional” exchanges.
The EU still hopes to conclude the negotiations by the summer, but this is likely to require more than one negotiating session to be...