EU Trade Ministers: No TTIP Conclusion Under Obama; Pause Likely In '17

EU trade ministers, emerging from an informal meeting in Bratislava, agreed that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal will not be completed in the remaining months of the Obama administration and that a pause in negotiations is likely in 2017 regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential race. "All ministers expressed their doubts about being able to conclude [TTIP] before the end of the Obama presidency, and indeed it looks increasingly unlikely," European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on...