EU negotiator sees progress in FTA talks
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The European Union's chief negotiator in free trade talks with South Korea said Friday that the current round of negotiations has yielded significant advances but added that contentious issues such as automobiles were not discussed.
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EU foreign ministers will debate on  Monday whether to sign an interim trade agreement with Serbia  -- a move seen as boosting pro-European President Boris Tadic  ahead of a February 3 presidential run-off.
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The European Union will open talks in coming days on whether and when to impose sanctions on US goods, the bloc&#39;s executive says, a day after winning WTO backing over the &quot;Byrd&quot; anti-dumping law.
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France says the European Union and Iran have made &quot;considerable progress&quot; towards reaching a preliminary agreement on Tehran&#39;s nuclear program at talks in Paris.
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European Union leaders pressed other trading powers on Friday to move to wrap up more than five years of global trade talks, making clear the EU would also pursue the option of bilateral deals with Asian partners.
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WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy on Saturday said a global trade deal was now within reach but political leaders needed to give a "final push" to complete the current round of negotiations.
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The European Union will do its best to save global trade talks but completing a deal next year is a 50-50 prospect at best, the EU ambassador to the World Trade Organisation said.
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The European Union's trade chief Peter Mandelson was expected to announce a breakthrough Tuesday after intensive talks with the United States to resolve a standoff over subsidies to Boeing Co. and Airbus SA, an EU official said.
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Despite some progress, trade between the 25 European Union nations needs to become easier and simpler to jump-start the EU's flagging economy, the EU's internal market chief said Thursday.
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The European Union and Russia moved closer on thorny issues of trade and political relations at a summit here on Friday that steered clear of confrontation on major policy disputes.
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The South American trade bloc Mercosur and the European Union said after a ministerial meeting Sunday they hope to conclude stalled talks about free-trade agreement on time.
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The EU can turn to new priorities such as globalisation after agreeing a new reform treaty, its leaders said Friday, but thoughts were also on the potentially tricky topic of ratification.
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Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, European Commission chief-in-waiting, said Friday the EU should send Turkey a positive signal on its chances of joining the bloc, as long as Ankara meets the necessary criteria.
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EU President Finland said today a Turkish offer to open one port to Cypriot ships did not go far enough and expected member states next week to agree on a partial freeze of accession talks with Ankara.Comment
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A 'reasonable settlement' is reached in the annual European Union fisheries talks, says a UK minister.
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Ministers from trade powers tried on Sunday to push forward talks for a long-delayed deal to boost global commerce and ease poverty which risks running out of time this year.
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Slow-moving talks between the European Union and the four-nation South American Mercosur trade bloc, aimed at building the world's largest free-trade area, will be extended beyond the October 31 deadline into next year, negotiators at talks here announced.