TRADE:  EU Talks Tough with the Poor
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BRUSSELS, Oct 24 (IPS) - The European Union's top trade official has  refused to accept African demands that he grant them lengthy  transition periods for removing restrictions on imports under a  new market opening deal.
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THE HAGUE, Jul 6 (IPS) - The European Union's trade policy has been  condemned as "predatory" by a leading anti-poverty  campaigner from India.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners are concerned that a new  European Union proposal for improving development aid may not  result in sufficient extra money for health and education in poor  countries.
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The World Trade Organisation said that existing reforms to the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy fell short of liberalising farming and called for more cuts in support for EU farmers.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 22 (IPS) - Increases in development aid will not be sufficient  to reach the United Nations targets on improving health in poor  countries, a new European Parliament report has warned.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 4 (IPS) - Central Africa seems an unlikely candidate for a  free trade deal with the European Union.
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EU foreign ministers met on Monday for crucial talks on how to penalize Turkey for failing to normalize trade with Cyprus at the start of a week that could derail Ankara's troubled entry negotiations with the bloc.
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HARARE, Dec 11  (IPS) - With an economy tottering on the brink of collapse  and an unenviable political situation, civil society  organisations in Zimbabwe have every reason to worry about the  implications of the interim agreement on trade in goods that  their country has just signed as part of the economic partnership  agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).
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BRUSSELS, Sep 8 (IPS) - New trade negotiations between the EU and a group  of small Pacific countries might only bring more poverty, NGOs  fear.
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The retaliatory tariffs are less than the Europeans and others had sought, and they are far less than the $4 billion the WTO authorized the EU to impose in another case involving US export subsidies.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 12 (IPS) - EU proposals to offer some trade concessions to  tsunami-hit countries do not go far enough, trade and development  experts say.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 13 (IPS) - A top European Union official has been seeking to  create divisions between South Africa and its neighbours in talks  aimed at establishing a free trade deal, African diplomats have  alleged.
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Trade ministers from a key group   of developing nations pressed the United States and the   European Union on Saturday for more concessions to help break   deadlocked global trade talks.
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The European Commission's cautious recommendation that Turkey begin membership negotiations puts the country a step closer to realizing its dream of joining Europe &#151; but also sets tough conditions that underscore the gaping divide between this mostly poor and Muslim nation and the wealthy, largely Christian club it yearns to join.
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The collapse of global trade talks  was bad news for Africa, condemning the world's poorest  continent to an uncertain future of high tariffs and lagging  competitiveness, officials and experts said on Monday.
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PARIS, Aug 28 (IPS) - Concern over getting too little in return for what  they are being asked to give up has led some African nations to  say "no" to some proposals for new trade relations with  Europe next year.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (IPS) - The European Commission's current proposals  for the sugar regime could have severe consequences for  developing countries, says the African, Caribbean and Pacific  group of countries.