Brussels, 16/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy's spokesman indicated on Friday that the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay) have decided to give themselves "a few more days" to finalise the "improved offers" that they were supposed to exchange with a view to the conclusion, at the end of October, of a future association and free-exchange agreement (see yesterday's EUROPE, p. 13).
Arancha Gonzalez explained, in gist, that the...