EU urges US to 'step up' on free trade talks

The United States needs to “step up to the plate” in the forthcoming round of talks on an EU-US trade agreement and accept that the deal should be “comprehensive and balanced”, the European Commission has said.

“We've had a very difficult and frustrating time in the last year, in order to get some movement from the United States to acknowledge the fact that we need to do a comprehensive agreement and a balanced agreement, not just on agriculture but across areas like procurement and reg...