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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9810

24 December 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Catherine Ashton to visit South Korea in January

Brussels, 23/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton will be travelling to Seoul, South Korea, in January 2009 to try and lift the last remaining obstacles to talks on a free trade agreement between the EU and South Korea. The talks started in May 2007 but are in deadlock over access to the market in the car industry and rules of origin. After a meeting between Lady Ashton and her South Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-hoon, in Brussels on 10 November 2008, EU and South...

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