The EU and Mexico said on April 21 they had reached an “agreement in principle” to modernize a free-trade deal sealed in 2000 between Brussels and the Latin American country. “Our negotiators will now continue their work to resolve the remaining technical issues and finalize the full legal text so that our citizens and enterprises can start reaping its benefits as soon as possible,” said a statement co-signed by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, her agriculture counterpart Phil Hogan, and Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal. The agreement is seen as sending a strong signal to US President ... (full story)