TRADE-EU:  Africans Speak Out Against EPAs as Unwelcome
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BRUSSELS, Jun 8 (IPS) - When European campaigners suggest that a free trade  deal could harm the poor, they typically encounter a frosty  reaction from civil servants in Brussels. Still, no one tries to  muzzle them.
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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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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - Trying to avert a trans-Atlantic trade war over government subsidies to Airbus, US and European negotiators found little to agree on Thursday during a five-hour meeting in Brussels, Belgium.
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One of the architects of Africa&#39;s home-grown plan for economic development has launched a scathing attack on its achievements.
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Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today defended two of his under-fire team. Euro MPs questioned the appointment of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as a Commissioner after he said homosexuality was a sin.
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Trade, apart from peace and prosperity, is always held up as the great EU success story. If only the EU could get its act together in other areas, such as foreign affairs, it would be a global power, the argument runs.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 28 (IPS) - The European Union's top trade official has  called on Thailand to revise its efforts to provide cheap  medicines to people with AIDS over concerns that the country  could be undermining global rules on intellectual property.
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An attempt to make European wines more competitive worldwide is pitting the EU's top farm bureaucrat against winemakers who claim the reforms will stain the soul of their centuries-old craft.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium The incoming European Union trade commissioner is criticizing the United States for failing to work to resolve a dispute over government aid to Boeing and Airbus.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 14 (IPS) - Caribbean governments have alleged that the  European Union is trying to prevent them from signing trade deals  with other poor countries on their own terms.
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Officials hit out at an EU report critical of April's polls, saying it was deliberately trying to incite Nigerians.
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WINDHOEK, February 15  (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC)  should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union from  destroying its regional integration efforts.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 21  (IPS) - African governments have signed economic  partnership agreements with the European Union ââunder duressââ,  according to Dr Rob Davies, South Africaâs deputy trade and  industry minister.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (IPS) - Louis Michel, the European Union's aid chief,  will urge that the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda seek a  peaceful solution to their problems when he visits East Africa  this week.
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Business & money: Â·  European parliament blocks EC initiative Â·  Businesses and unions unite in denunciation
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The Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States voiced regret at the lack of progress in talks with the European Union on a new framework for trade between the two blocs.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 21 (IPS) - African nations have been reduced to  "begging" in negotiations on their future economic ties  with the European Union (EU) in what has turned into exercise  "assaulting democracy," according to trade unionists and  policy analysts from both north and south.