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EC Praises Hungary’s Economic Policy yet Soft-pedals on Early Adoption of the Euro [25 Feb 2009]  
The European Commission’s President Jose Manuel Barroso commended the Prime Minister of Hungary, Ferenc Gyurcsany while he received him in Brussels, the headquarters of the EU for his government’s pol  ...More
Tags: european commission     economic crisis     hungary    
The EU Prods Thailand to be Proactive on FTA [03 Mar 2009]  
European Commission Trade Director-General and Chief Negotiator, Philippe Meyer said in Bangkok at the sidelines of ASEAN Business Investment Summit that the EU was keen on inking a free trade deal wi  ...More
Tags: european commission     bangkok     Singapore    
The EU Likely to Provide Visa-free Travel for Macedonians [26 May 2009]  
According to the European Commission's (EC) assessment report, posted on the official website of the European Stability Initiative (ESI) stated Macedonia had been able to fulfil the required criteria  ...More
Tags: visa     free travel     Eurpoe    
IPTIC Moves its Global Headquarters to Dubai from Europe [19 Jun 2009]  
The latest release of Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) stated that the International Pulses Trade and Industry Confederation (IPTIC) had decided to relocate its headquarters from Europe to Dubai.  ...More
Tags: Dubai     Europe     IPTIC    
Fake Items are on the Rise in the EU – Seizures Double [13 Jul 2009]  
The European Commission in its latest report stated the customs seizures of fake goods have grown by about 125 percent in 2008 from the previous year. It said China maintained its position as the majo  ...More
Tags: European commission     Cigarettes     NAFDAC    
The EU Agency Rejects Hype on Health Claims of Food Products [21 Jul 2009]  
The EU’s food safety agency EFSA has rejected the claims of about 65 food products of their unproven health benefits through its scientific investigation. The EFSA’s (European Food Safety Authority) f  ...More
Tags: EU Agency     food products    
Malaysia-EU Timber Trade Deal by Year End [19 Aug 2009]  
The European Union (EU) and Malaysia are planning to conclude the bilateral Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) to promote trade of the legitimately produced and harvested Malaysian timber by end of  ...More
Tags: Malaysia     Europe     EU     EC     VPA     FLEGT    
Ethiopia to be the Cynosure of African Trade [18 Sep 2009]  
The multi-million dollar Africa International Trade Centre which is coming up at Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa is expected to transform the country to be the trade hub of the African continent. The  ...More
Tags: Ethiopia     Africa     AEC     EU     AACCSA     AU    
EU Allays Fears of Italian Auto Industry over S-Korean FTA [22 Sep 2009]  
The EU trade commissioner informed Italian industry representatives that the Italian economy would stand to gain from the FTA with South Korea - which is expected to come into effect from July 2010. T  ...More
Tags: EU     FTA     South Korea     Italy    
Trade is Top Priority to Pakistan Now [20 Oct 2009]  
Reeling under the bogey of growing militancy and terrorism, Pakistan is making a fresh effort to engage with countries which are interested to do business with them. The recent engagements with Cuba,  ...More
Tags: FTA    LOTTE    EU    Trade    Pakistan    KEPCO    
EU Releases Funds to ASEAN in a Bid to Fight Piracy [22 Oct 2009]  
The European Commission (EC), the executive branch of the EU has provided $6.7mn to the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to combat the threat of intellectual property (IP) violations in  ...More
Tags: EU    ASEAN    EC    election    IP    FTA    India    China    
EU Cuts Canadian Seafood Tariff – No Verdict on Seal Ban Yet [03 Nov 2009]  
The European Union (EU) has indicated there would be some modification to the current tariff structure to ease the pressure off the already vexed Canadian seafood producers. The significant change to  ...More
Tags: EU    Canada    Seafood    ATRQ    
EU Won’t Seek Regime Change in Cuba but Compliance to Rights [05 Nov 2009]  
A visiting EU official said after meeting with the Cuban President Raul Castro that the EU was not looking at a regime change in the communist Cuba, but expected progress on human rights for both side  ...More
Tags: EU    Cuba    Spanish    Raul Castro    Gucht    
Israeli Prez Peres Must Carry Palestinian Answers to Brazil [09 Nov 2009]  
Israeli President Shimon Peres should have answers to the Palestinian issues during his Latin American sojourn if he aspires to strengthen ties with them, particularly, in light of growing opposition  ...More
Tags: Brazil    Latin America    Israel    Europe    North America    
EAC Exports to be taxed by EU Due to Delay in EPA [07 Dec 2009]  
The European Union has informed the East African Community (EAC) that the failure or delay in signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) would lead to taxes on the exports of the EAC-member stat  ...More
Tags: EAC    EPA    Kenya    EU    EU-ACP    ACP    
EU Phyto Sanitary Recognition to Boost Mexican Exports [15 Dec 2009]  
The EU has recognized Mexico’s SENASICA as a regulatory authority of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS). The SENASICA or the National Service for Animal Health, Food Safety, and Agricultural an  ...More
Tags: Eu    Mexico    SENASICA    SPS    PROTLCUEM    FTA    
Economists Differ on US Economic Recovery [05 Jan 2010]  
Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz along with economics professor Martin Feldstein of Harvard University sounded the alarm at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in A  ...More
Tags: economy    economic recovery    Boston    US    Europe    
EU Aims to Tide over WTO Ceiling on Sugar Exports [22 Jan 2010]  
In the wake of repeated requests from International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE) and other sugar agencies of Europe to export surplus sugar, the EU as a ‘matter of urgency’ is plannin  ...More
Tags: EU    WTO    sugar exports    CIBE    Europe    India    Brazil    
Irish Visa Rules Restrict Potential Tourists [15 Feb 2010]  
The head of the representative body for private bus operators in Ireland has said that the country’s stringent visa requirements from certain countries were not allowing more job creation and perk up  ...More
Tags: Irish    tourism    CTTC    EU    UK    US    
Greece Needs Pragmatism not Post mortem [01 Mar 2010]  
Greece, the EU member state, which is experiencing a severe economic crisis, has literally become a thorn in the flesh to the Union. Initial analysis on the ongoing crisis indicate a likely domino eff  ...More
Tags: Greece    EU    economy    Germany    Olympic games    
EU Embarrassed by Report on Exports of Torture Equipment [18 Mar 2010]  
The EU which insists on stringent enforcement of human rights in every trade deal has found itself cornered by the recent jointly released report by Amnesty International and the Omega Research Founda  ...More
Tags: EU    export    Belgium    Cyprus    Italy    Finland    Malta    
Dutch Revving to Re-write 400yr-old Trade History with India [06 Apr 2010]  
The Netherlands has sent a high level delegation to India to tap the growing importance in the world economy of its long-standing trade partner. The five-day Netherlands economic mission which started  ...More
Tags: Dutch    Netherlands    India    GNP    Europe    
Dubai Realty Firms Squeeze Clients for Mirages [12 Apr 2010]  
Until the global credit crisis rocked the Dubai real estate projects, way back in 2008, people continued to invest in these projects blindly without any logical personal debt management. The fallout –  ...More
Tags: Dubai    PJSC    UAE    Deutsche Bank    
Aviation Industry May Take Months to Recover from Volcanic Losses [16 Apr 2010]  
The volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier which erupted on last Wednesday for the second time in a month is likely to inflict huge losses to global trade, particularly to the aviation indus  ...More
Tags: Aviation    Europe    US    Asia    CAPA    
Greece a Lesson for Blocs Aim to Emulate EU [09 May 2010]  
Greece crisis must be termed as a discouraging event for blocs from Latin America and the Gulf which are essaying to toe the line of the EU to form unions with single currency and similar governance s  ...More
Tags: EU     Greece     economy     crisis     debt     Europe    
Greece a Lesson for Blocs Aim to Emulate EU [09 May 2010]  
Greece crisis must be termed as a discouraging event for blocs from Latin America and the Gulf which are essaying to toe the line of the EU to form unions with single currency and similar governance s  ...More
Tags: EU     Greece     economy     crisis     debt     Europe    
EU Prez Tours West Balkans to Assuage Fears on EU Accession [06 Jul 2010]  
The European Union President Herman Van Rompuy has made a whirlwind trip to the Western Balkan states starting from Slovenia through Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo to demonstrate the Union's commitment fo  ...More
Tags: EU     Balkan States     Croatia     Finance     Europe    
ACTA Secrecy Complicates EU – May Influence Outcome of Deal [03 Sep 2010]  
It is out now the veil of secrecy over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has gone one step further as the US officials blocked the EU attempts to publish the latest draft on combating cou  ...More
Tags: ACTA     EU     Priracy Online    
Italian Fears are not Baseless - Koreans Make Cost-effective Cars [13 Sep 2010]  
It is not about who makes a better auto-mobile - but in today's globalized market, it is rather who makes cost-effective and fuel-efficient ones. Climate change and rising hydro-carbon prices have zer  ...More
Tags: Korean Auto     Italian Cars     Hyundai     Kia     EU    
EU-CARIFORUM EPA Remains a Slow Starter [14 Sep 2010]  
A study claims that the objective of meeting economic growth in the Caribbean region has not been met even after two years of signing the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Caribbea  ...More
Tags: CARIFORUM     CaPRI     CIGI     EU     Caribbean    
EU Lenifies Farmers by Acquiescing in Release of Feed Stocks [28 Sep 2010]  
The European Commission in a bid to check rising feed costs has decided to release about 3mn tonnes of grain from the EU’s intervention stocks. Most European farmers except from Germany have incurred  ...More
Tags: EU     Feed stocks     FNP    
Workers across Europe Strike against Austerity Measures [29 Sep 2010]  
The European trade unions will demonstrate today against the austerity measures adopted recently by many European countries, and will demand recovery plans inclusive of workers and job creation. The p  ...More
Tags: ETUC     Euro     Trade Unions    
Bangladesh to Gain from Lankan Absence in EU Apparel Market [08 Oct 2010]  
Sri Lanka being excised from the Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status from the EU is reported to allow Bangladesh to exploit the space as it is a competing entity to the Lankan ready-m  ...More
Tags: GSP     EU     Apparel Market     Bangladesh    
German Dioxin-tainted Food Scare Heightens across EU [08 Jan 2011]  
The contaminated eggs with toxic dioxin from Germany are panicking consumers across Europe as they are suspected to have entered the UK food chain. It is understood that 14 tonnes of tainted egg prod  ...More
Tags: Germany    EU    Holland    Britain    Poultry    Processed Food    
Malawi Exports to EU Record Growth – Imports from EU Decline [19 Jan 2011]  
According to the Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, Malawi’s exports to the bloc has increased by 7.4 percent in the first nine months of 2010. On the contrary, the EU’s earnings from trade with M  ...More
Tags: Malawi    EU    Germany    UK    France    Imports    Exports    
EU Commission welcomes European Parliament backing for free trade with South Korea [18 Feb 2011]  
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, today welcomed the European Parliament’s support for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and South Korea. An overwhelming majority of MEP  ...More
Tags: European Parliament    FTA    EU    Lisbon Treaty    
India, EU settle generics dispute, pave way for FTA talks in April [15 Mar 2011]  
India has sorted out most of its differences with the European Union on production of low-cost generic medicines, ahead of a crucial meeting on a proposed free-trade pact next month, a government offi  ...More
Tags: IPR    Civil society groups    TRIPS    FTA    India-EU summit    
India keen to export pharma products to China [24 Mar 2011]  
If the Chinese government cleared hurdles to provide market access, India could start exporting its pharmaceuticals to China in a big way. India made a strong pitch to push it, asserting that a good o  ...More
Tags: Indian Drug Manufacturers Association    API    pharmaceutical industry    SFDA    
China – Europe Focus [05 Dec 2011]  
According to a recent survey amongst almost 600 Chinese exporters, a majority report that shipments to Europe have declined in the past few months due to slower demand as results of the Eurozone debt  ...More
Tags: China Europe Focus    
Asia braces for weaker exports as Europe stumbles [15 Jun 2012]  
SINGAPORE: After supplying European customers for more than 40 years with neon bright ornamental fish, Shirley Lim is now looking elsewhere for sales.

Lim, whose business in Singapore and Malay  ...More
Tags: Asia Europe exports    
G20 summit- India announces 10 billion USD for debt wracked Eurozone [22 Jun 2012]  
LOS CABOS: India on Tuesday announced a $10 billion contribution to the IMF's additional $430 billion financial firewall to help the debt-wracked 17-nation Eurozone so that the faltering world economy  ...More
Tags: G20 summit India Eurozone    
Euro finance ministers agree on bailout for Spain, offers 30 bn euros for banks [13 Jul 2012]  
Eurozone finance ministers agreed Tuesday to offer Spain 30 billion euros this month to help its distressed banks as they raced to stay ahead of market scepticism. After nine hours of talks, Jean-Clau  ...More
Tags: Euro bailout Spain    
Eurozone crisis: All eyes on European Central Bank president Mario Draghi to fight crisis [05 Aug 2012]  
FRANKFURT: European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has already taken Europe's monetary authority into uncharted territory. Now, with the debt crisis in Europe threatening further disaster, he  ...More
Tags: Eurozone crisis    
Eurozone hurtling back into recession- Economists [17 Aug 2012]  
FRANKFURT: The eurozone is hurtling back into recession, economists declared this week after official figures portrayed a shrinking economy. But by some measures, the downturn has been under way for y  ...More
Tags: Eurozone recession    
Eurozone crisis: Spain has no immediate need for help, says ECB's Ewald Nowotny [29 Oct 2012]  
VIENNA: Spain has no immediate need of help from the European Central Bank's new bond-buying programme and should try to refinance itself before requesting aid, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny said. Spa  ...More
Tags: Eurozone crisis    
European leaders seek Asian support on debt [05 Nov 2012]  
VIENTIANE: Dozens of European and Asian leaders will gather in impoverished Laos on Monday for a major summit set to be dominated by the eurozone debt crisis and growing territorial tensions in the re  ...More
Tags: European leaders seek Asian support on debt    
Sweet Revenge- China Raises Price of European Wines to counteract the Solar Panel Incident [10 Jun 2013]  
Whoever said that revenge is best served cold wasn’t obviously referring to the European made Champagnes, Burgundies and other fine wines that will soon be pricier for connoisseurs across China. This  ...More
Tags: China Raises Price of European Wines    
Global Economy’s Dream Come True- US & Europe mulling over a Free Trade Agreement [19 Aug 2013]  
Two of the biggest financial superpowers of the world, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) are finally getting round to finalizing on something that holds great implications for the wor  ...More
Tags: Global Economy US and Europe    
Brewing Trouble- Europe’s Non Performing Loans Hit 1.2 Trillion Euros [11 Nov 2013]  
The uncertainty that loomed due to the economic depression recently, seems to still have an effect in the recovering European economies. The gross non-performing loans (NPLs) across banks in Europe ha  ...More
Tags: Brewing Trouble - Europe's    
Yuan beats Euro as the Second Most Traded Currency in Global Business [20 Jan 2014]  
Looks like the Chinese flag is soaring high, with the latest findings that the Chinese Yuan has emerged as the second most used currency in global finance, slowly inching towards the market leading Do  ...More
Tags: Yuan Euro Traded Currency Global