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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The EU and the United States ended five days of talks Friday saying they had made progress toward an agreement to open up American airports to more European airlines, and hoped to clinch a deal next month.
EU airlines currently can only operate routes between their home countries and the United States, which caps the number of airlines flying the trans-Atlantic route.
EU spokesman Stefaan de Rynck and John Byerly, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for transport, said Washington would resist for now any EU airline flying between American cities, but would welcome EU airlines to fly to many more U.S. cities from anywhere in the 25-nation EU and provide onward services to another country.
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