AFRICA:   EPAs Clashing With Everything-But-Arms Trade Scheme?
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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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The European Union is not yet ready to lift an arms embargo on China, Bernard Bot, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands which holds the bloc's rotating presidency, said Wednesday.  "We are working assiduously but...the time is not right to lift the embargo," Bot told reporters on arrival at a summit between the bloc and Chinese leaders.
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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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Algeria's chances of joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) may be scuppered by its parliament's refusal to lift a ban on alcohol imports.
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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, Oct 20  (IPS) - Including the so-called new generation or Singapore  issues in the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) will make  the conclusion of the deals unlikely by the December 31 deadline.
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NAIROBI, Sept 19  (IPS) - Failure to conclude an economic partnership  agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) by the end-of-year  deadline will have serious implications for Kenyan exporters,  including those in the booming horticultural industry.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan to commission a new multibillion-dollar nuclear missile defense system risks justifying the actions of regimes seeking to illicitly develop atomic weapons
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BONN, Mar 13 (IPS) - Europe's highest-ranking trade official has  claimed  that the entire African, Pacific and  Caribbean (ACP)  bloc is committed to reaching controversial free trade  deals  with the EU by  the end of this year. Not everyone from the ACP  group thinks so.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 20 (IPS) - The European Union&#39s only directly elected  institution is at loggerheads with the bloc&#39s 27 governments  over a measure officially designed to ensure that poor countries  have access to affordable medicines.
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HARARE, Dec 11  (IPS) - With an economy tottering on the brink of collapse  and an unenviable political situation, civil society  organisations in Zimbabwe have every reason to worry about the  implications of the interim agreement on trade in goods that  their country has just signed as part of the economic partnership  agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).
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PARIS, Sep 24 (IPS) - Not a bad idea when French President Jacques Chirac  proposed a global tax on weapons sales and corporate profits to  pay for development in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Business & money: Local authority pension funds are to tackle arms companies about their activities.
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A deal between Liberia and the world's largest steel company is unfair and bad for the country, campaigners say.
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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 European Union says it is not yet ready to lift a 15-year-old ban on selling arms to China, but is working toward that goal. The arms embargo dominated a one-day EU-China summit in the Netherlands that
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In a Sept. 13 story about Somalia, The Associated Press erroneously attributed details about Islamic militiamen advancing on the port city of Kismayo to an official of the African Union. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was from the European Union, not the AU.
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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.