10/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - An EU/Mercosur ministerial meeting may be held before the end of the year to take stock of the free trade talks in progress, said Eneko Landaburu, Director General for External Relations at the Commission, when speaking before the EP delegation for South America. These talks may be facilitated by the setting in place of a "standing committee" decided by the four countries of the common market of the South American cone (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay)....