European governments completed the final formal step on Monday to ratify the trade agreement that the European Union concluded with Peru and Colombia in 2012—and which Ecuador later joined. This move will allow full implementation of all provisions of the pact starting November, a deal that has been provisionally applied for eleven years. The Multi-Party […]
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