EU Seeks to Improve Trade Among Nations
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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 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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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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The European Union adopted, by the narrowest of majorities, new anti-dumping measures to tackle imports of leather shoes from China and Vietnam, a diplomatic source said.
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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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The European Union must accept more genetically modified foods to avoid renewed complaints about market barriers at the World Trade Organization, the EU trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, said Thursday.
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The step could avert a trade war with the U.S. and the European Union over a new influx of low-cost Chinese garments.
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European Union finance  ministers and central bankers agreed on Saturday to step up  co-operation among themselves to improve their handling of  cross-border financial crises.
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PORTO, Portugal  - European Union finance ministers and central bankers agreed on Saturday to step up co-operation among themselves to improve their handling of cross-border financial crises.
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The European Union called Monday for more movement from its partners in World Trade Organisation talks after WTO chief Pascal Lamy injected a sense of urgency into attempts to revive the negotiations.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec 21 (IPS) - Come Jan.1 a new trade and aid pact between fifteen  Caribbean nations and the  27 members of the European Union (EU)  kicks into force heralding in a new era  in relations between the  two trade blocs that will be based largely on reciprocity  rather  than protected trade, as has been the case for centuries.
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The EU adopts plans to force European energy markets to be open to more competition.
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BRUSSELS, May 22 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners have likened trade  negotiations between the European Union (EU) and several regions  in Africa to a boxing match between a schoolboy novice and a  heavyweight champion.
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HELSINKI, Finland The EU called for a restart of world trade talks Saturday but made clear for the first time that it would pursue bilateral deals in Asia and elsewhere while a global accord remains stalled.
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Brazil, India the US and EU meet in Germany in a bid to revive stalled World Trade Organization trade talks.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 7 (IPS) - The European Commission and a grouping of   countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the  Pacific are no  nearer an agreement on trade liberalisation after their  latest  effort.
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The World Trade Organization called on the United States and Europe to lower their farm barriers in return for greater access to India, Brazil and other parts of the developing world for exports.