News: EU-Australia deal more complicated after sub dispute - EU lawmaker

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    BRUSSELS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Australia's scrapping of a submarine order with France has made a planned EU-Australia trade agreement more complicated, although negotiations should continue, the chair of the trade committee of the European Parliament said on Monday.

    "I guess this will not lead to stopping negotiations and talks with Australia, but they will be much more complicated," Bernd Lange told a briefing.

    Lange said the willingness of EU countries and France in particular to compromise in trade talks, notably on agriculture, was likely to be "quite limited".

 
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