Australia and the European Union are no closer to a $100 billion free-trade agreement, as the impasse over naming rights continues.
Trade Minister Don Farrell cut his mid-year holidays early to fly to Brussels this week to try and break the deadlock, but two days of tough negotiations failed to render a compromise, and he has left the continent without a signed deal.
Still optimistic that the two sides can broker a deal that satisfies them both, Senator Farrell will meet again with his European counterparts next month.
While Australia wants the EU to grant it “meaningful” access to the…
