Auto Sector, Govt Procurement Ongoing Roadbumps in EU Trade Talks

EU Ambassador and Head of EU Delegation to Malaysia, HE Luc Vandebon, discusses:

- Bilateral trade - details - updates - Eurozone debt crisis - impact - surplus/deficit updates;

- FTA / PCA - discussions - resolution - updates; 

- FTA Challenges - government procurement - auto sector - services - issues; 

- Election outcome - potential for administration change - how alter EU stance - landscape / lay of the land - issues; 

- Eurozone issues - progress with fiscal consolidation - chances for a meaningful recovery;

- ECB rates outlook - impact; 

- CPO - Europe anti-palm lobby - Western NGO participation - Nutella tax - issues; 

- Human Rights - efforts abolish death penalty - progress; 

- Implications - non-resolution FTA / Death penalty - santions / others? - issues; 

- Sustainability / Environment - coal-fired power plants / FiT awards - seeming contradictions - VIEWS - ISSUES; - Forest governance agreement - Sabah / Sarawak participation - issues.