TRADE-EU:  Incompatible Standards May Keep African Organics Out
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YORK, (Britain), Sep 21 (IPS) - The newly launched East Africa Organic Standard,  designed to boost exports to Europe, could fall at the first  hurdle if the largest licensing body in the UK decides in  November that air-freighted produce no longer qualifies as  organic.
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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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EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling on Tuesday over new rules for organic farming and came up with a labeling system that will tell consumers exactly what they are buying.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 21 (IPS) - A leading development group has slammed EU plans to  amend trade discounts to developing countries.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 19  (IPS) - The European Union has rejected calls by West  African states to postpone the end-of-year deadline for  concluding a free trade agreement.
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BANGKOK, Oct 14 (IPS) - The enlarged European Union instead of being a  formidable ally to conservationists  involved in saving the  African elephant, has ironically become a stumbling block to the   survival of the endangered species.
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BERLIN, Oct 29  (IPS) - The economic partnership agreements (EPAs),  proposed by the European Union (EU) to African, Caribbean and  Pacific (ACP) countries, constitute a ââneo-colonial instrumentââ  which will destroy the economic and social basis in African  states, according to some German non-governmental organisations.
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The EU is to appeal against a World Trade Organisation ruling that its sugar subsidies breach world trade rules.
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Monsanto Co., Syngenta AG and Bayer AG failed to win wider access to the European Union&#39;s biotechnology market when a demand that five nations lift bans on some gene-modified foods allowed elsewhere in the EU was blocked.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 9 (IPS) - The European Union (EU) has imported sugar at  preferential prices from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries  since the 1970s; but, failed sugar reform within the union and  the prospect of unlimited imports from Least Developed Countries  (LDCs) in the near future have put a question mark over this  arrangement.
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The European Union must accept more genetically modified foods to avoid renewed complaints about market barriers at the World Trade Organization, the EU trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, said Thursday.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 15  (IPS) - Central African countries have committed themselves  to finalising an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the  European Union by June this year.
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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, Nov 16 (IPS) - Europe applies double standards when it comes   to  good governance as a pre-requisite for growth and poverty    reduction, senior African political leaders say.
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The European Union is in danger of extending beyond its proper geographical and cultural limits. Frankly, this title is misleading.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 29 (IPS) - European Union trade commissioner Peter Mandelson  has distanced himself from a pledge to enable African countries  revise a series of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)  recently clinched with Brussels.
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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.