Balkan states sign CEFTA free-trade zone
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Seven Balkan countries formed a free-trade zone in southeastern Europe Tuesday, creating a market of 30 million people, media said.Comment
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Southeast Asian nations and China signed an accord Monday to create the world&#39;s biggest free trade area by removing tariffs for their 2 billion people by decade&#39;s end - a key step in their vision of a trade bloc to rival Europe and North America.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro signed a declaration in Sarajevo on Monday, pledging to settle an estimated 300,000 refugees from the Balkan wars in the early 1990s by the end of next ...
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Business: 8 November 2004, Monday. The state sale body has approved the inked contract with Czech company CEZ for the privatisation of 67% stake in Northwest Bulgaria power utility pool.
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The European Union and Syria initialled an association agreement that commits both sides to work towards free trade -- as well as against weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.
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KYIV. Feb 8 (Interfax) - Ukraine is ready to begin talks on the signing of 38 agreements initiated in 2004 which determine a free trade zone within the Common Economic Space, First Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.
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Bulgaria and Russia signed a deal Friday to build the 10 billion euros (14.7 billion dollars) South Stream pipeline to carry Russian gas to Europe, giving Moscow an even greater say on European energy supplies.
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European Union's largest countries also formally recognize the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
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VIENTIANE: India and 10 Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday signed a âprosperityâ blueprint focused on plans for a full free-trade area by 2016 and political and security cooperation to combat terrorism.
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The world&#39;s largest free trade area was meant to open across 34 nations of the Americas on Jan. 1, 2005. The only visible sign of it in Latin America in the final days of 2004 is anti-US graffiti sprayed on city walls.
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Bulgaria signed the deal for the $15 billion South Stream pipeline with Russia, undermining the European Unionâs attempts to diversify its energy sources.
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VIENTIANE - China and 10 South-east Asian countries signed historic trade pacts to pave the way for the world&#39;s biggest free-trade zone by 2010, with a total population of nearly two billion people.
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The European Commission gave Bulgaria and Romania the go-ahead to join the European Union in January, but with the closest monitoring system ever imposed on new members.
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BRUSSELS -- The European Union gave the final green light yesterday to the second wave of its eastern enlargement, inviting Bulgaria and Romania to join the bloc in 2007 and agreeing to open entry talks with Croatia next March.
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Six Southeast Asian nations meeting at the ASEAN summit have agreed to speed up efforts to create a free trade zone in the region, the BBC reported Monday.
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Bulgaria has started its first co-mission with the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with some 30 countries, including Canada and Turkey.
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Romania's Trade Ministry said Czech's CEZ and Germany's E.ON had submitted binding bids for two regional power distributors Electrica Moldova and Electrica Oltenia.