CHALLENGES 2007-2008:  Regional Integration in Tatters Due to EPAs
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LONDON, Dec 20  (IPS) - The spectre of regional fragmentation is haunting  the negotiations on the finalisation of interim economic  partnership agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and  the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. This is despite one  of the stated goals of the EPAs being ââregional integrationââ.
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BLANTYRE, Sept 12  (IPS) - The proposed economic partnership agreements  (EPAs), which are due to come into force beginning next year, may  undermine the benefits of another European Union trade  initiative, called Everything-But-Arms, for the sugar industry.
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Recovery and aid efforts are daunting challenges throughout much of Asia in the wake of Sunday&#39;s tsunami, but in Sri Lanka and Sumatra&#39;s Aceh province those tasks are severely complicated by years of unrest.
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By Brahma Chellaney  The sharpening Asian competition over energy resources   has obscured another danger: Water shortages in much of Asia are becoming a threat to rapid economic modernization.
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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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Our South American neighbor expands its production of ethanol and biodiesel. Partnering with Brazil would benefit the economy of a democracy and clean our skies. In Autopia.
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NAIROBI, Sep 21  (IPS) - Government leaders and exporters in east Africa are  adamant that certain products be excluded from the economic  partnership agreements (EPAs) to prevent detrimental effects on  the livelihoods of the majority of people in the region.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 23 (IPS) - Fresh challenges and opportunities for EU  development policy will be explored at a critical meeting next  week.
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Pollution from pesticides and insecticides in various parts of Greece has risen dangerously, while similar toxic substances have been detected in olive oil as well as imported fruit and vegetables on sale in ...
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WINDHOEK, Jan 23  (IPS) - Namibia held out longer than the majority of its  counterparts in Southern Africa before signing the interim  economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union,  managing in the process to squeeze some concessions from Brussels  after intense diplomatic efforts.
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MADRID, Sep 3 (IPS) - While in other parts of the world, like the Middle   East, the struggle over water sources fuels armed conflicts, a  political war  is being waged in Spain over the same question.
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BELGRADE, Oct 12 (IPS) - Representatives from 51 countries agreed at a  three-day conference in Belgrade this week to undertake new  environmental improvements to build sustainable development.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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Europe, Japan, US, and developing nations are divided over how to handle greenhouse-gas emissions.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 5 (IPS) - As if the summit of the eight most industrialised  countries did not have enough problems in fulfilling its own  agenda this week, the group's members are also aligning in a  confrontation along international borders and actions that recall  those of the Cold War.
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By MICHAEL CASEY YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Asia's rapid economic expansion has turned its skies into some of world's most polluted and the region must do more to fight a scourge that is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually, delegates told a clean air conference Wednesday.
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It&#039;s that time of year again when Europeans pack up the kids and pets and embark on an annual vacation exodus &amp;#151; jamming highways that are no celebration of European unity. The highway headaches are rooted largely in European governments&#039; inability to craft a sensibly numbered, well-maintained and uniformly sign-posted highway grid.