NZ-EU FTA is all about like-minded partnerships

NZ-EU FTA is all about like-minded partnerships
The European Parliament. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Rebecca Howard
Defence Minister Judith Collins’ recent visit to Brussels underscored just why the European Union was so keen to ink a free trade agreement with New Zealand.Collins was in Belgium to attend a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) defence ministers’ meeting. She reiterated NZ’s “unwavering support for the people of Ukraine as they fight against Russia’s illegal and unjustified war of aggression”. NZ was invited to attend the Nato meeting alongside representatives from the EU and the Indo-Pacific...

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