Brussels, 15/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - Algeria and the European Commission, on behalf of the EU, met on Thursday for the eighth negotiating session (two days) in view of concluding an Association Agreement centred on free trade.
Algiers had first felt the Community offer badly suited to the situation, feeling that its interest resided more in the search for support to the restructuring of its economy than in the development of commercial trade, its exports towards the EU 15 markets being...