The desk will serve as a service centre providing market intelligence, business licensing guidance, facilitating business cooperation, identifying potential investment projects, and harmonising regulatory policies between the two parties.

President To Lam received the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) and the ambassadors and chargés d’affaires of EU member countries who came to pay a courtesy call on the new State leader of Vietnam in Hanoi on June 7.

Vietnam’s shrimp exports are expected to increase to more than 4 billion USD in 2019 thanks to free trade agreements, said the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Vietnam and the European Union (EU) will continue efforts to complete procedures so as to officially sign, ratify and enforce the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), said the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang.

The second European Literature Days 2017 began on Ho Chi Minh City’s Book Street on May 9, with a series of activities for authors and readers.