A 2015 deadline to agree a landmark trade deal with the United States is likely to be missed, EU trade officials have conceded.
"We cannot exclude that it may take longer," Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, told reporters following a meeting of EU trade ministers on Wednesday (25 March).
“We have to do our best to get an agreement but we don’t want to reach an agreement just for the sake of it,” he added. “The poli...
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