TRADE:  'EU Stands Between Poor and Poor'
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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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Deep differences surface at an EU meeting over proposals to coordinate tax policies across the European Union.
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The European Union may not be very good at creating jobs and producing goods people want to buy, but when it comes to setting up high level working groups and churning out reports, it is a world leader.
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THE HAGUE, Sep 28  (IPS) - The EU should introduce fair trade rules as the  best way to promote development,  experts said at a conference  here Tuesday.
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The Jan. 1 abolition of trade quotas may not be as hard on textile and apparel makers in poor countries as many experts had thought.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 12 (IPS) - EU proposals to offer some trade concessions to  tsunami-hit countries do not go far enough, trade and development  experts say.
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Rich nations need to increase their funding to poor countries if they are to meet aid commitments a report says.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (IPS) - Nearly one-fifth of children in the European Union  are living in poverty, a new report has concluded.
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NAIROBI, Sep 24  (IPS) - While east Africans still hold reservations about  the benefits of the economic partnership agreement (EPA)  currently being negotiated with the European Union (EU), both  government and civil society representatives seem to be accepting  that it is the best option available.
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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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The World Bank, aligned with other global financial institutions dominated by rich nations that promote free trade, is advising poor nations that have already signed agreements to open up for more trade on &quot;all fronts.
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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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LISBON, Oct 6 (IPS) - The contributions of young immigrants from the  developing South hold out a solution for pension systems in the  European Union, where rapid population ageing is placing heavy  pressure on social security.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 31  (IPS) - Conscious that trade issues had become a major  source of friction between African countries and their former  colonial overlords, the European Commission President JosÃ© Manuel  Barroso extended an olive branch in December.
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Most new EU member states still lag behind the rest of Europe in terms of competitiveness, a survey says.
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ACCRA, Dec 20  (IPS) - A lively debate has been taking place in Ghana for  some time now over the likely effects that an economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union would have on  the country. This has been thanks in no small part to the work of  Tetteh Hormeku, one of Africaâs most vocal campaigners on trade  issues.
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Most EU countries are failing to put in place policies aimed at making Europe the world's most competitive economy, a report says.