TRADE-EU:  This Is the Way Some Agreements Should End
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BRUSSELS, Sep 21 (IPS) - Elaborate funeral rituals were performed in central  Brussels over the past week to show how a planned free trade  accord between the European Union and the Korean government  should, in the view of anti-poverty campaigners, be buried.
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LISBON - European Union leaders gathering here last night agreed on a treaty that they hoped would end the drift plaguing the bloc since the French and the Dutch rejected a European constitution two years ago.
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The European Commission is set to give the green light later today to accession talks with Turkey. EU leaders will take a final decision in December.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - The European Union head office this week proposed redefining how working hours are counted under the bloc's maximum 48-hour workweek law and stopping companies in Britain from abusing an "opt-out" to the law.
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US trade negotiators will deliver a firm message to their European counterparts this morning in Brussels, Belgium: The Bush administration wants to scrap a 12-year-old aerospace trade pact and craft a wholly new accord that bars government loans, two
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La riforma del mercato in Ue al centro dei colloqui
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The European Union said it has offered to eliminate most tariffs for imports of industrial goods and to scrap or reduce agricultural import tariffs from South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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The European Union is in danger of extending beyond its proper geographical and cultural limits. Frankly, this title is misleading.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 19  (IPS) - The European Union has rejected calls by West  African states to postpone the end-of-year deadline for  concluding a free trade agreement.
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LISBON, Oct 21 (IPS) - It took just an eight-hour meeting in the  Portuguese  capital and a 25-line communique to destroy the last  remaining vestiges of  hope, after five years of efforts, of  reaching a free trade agreement  between the European Union and  South America's Mercosur trade bloc before  the current  members of the European Commission step down.
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Talks in Germany to secure a new global trade deal have collapsed, says a European Union official.
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The European Union has until July of next year to modify a trade deal aimed at countering the production of illegal narcotics, the World Trade Organization ruled Monday.
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The European Union head office this week proposed redefining how working hours are counted under the bloc&#39;s maximum 48-hour workweek law and stopping companies in Britain from abusing an &quot;opt-out&quot; to the law.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (IPS) - 'Fish, pay and go'. These three words  have long been used by green and anti-poverty activists to  describe a raft of agreements, signed since 1979, under which  European Union vessels scoop up as much fish as they can find  from the waters of about 20 poor countries in the wider world.  Little, if any, heed has been paid to the damage inflicted on  marine ecology or to people living in coastal communities.
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The European Commission&#39;s first step towards resolving one of its largest trade disputes with the United States came in the form of a promise by outgoing Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy.
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Too often, the consequence of a tight presidential race is the sacrifice of principle to the win-at-all-costs ethos. It should thus come as no surprise that the Bush administration is once again jettisoning prudent trade policy for political calculation.
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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.