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Koreans keep the free trade ball rolling
3-Mar-2009    
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak put on an impressive show in Auckland yesterday as he talked tough about the necessity for world leaders not to fall prey to anti-protectionist forces.
France To Maintain Official Development Assistance To Ghana
3-Mar-2009    
Despite the global financial turmoil, the government of France will continue to provide its official development assistance to Ghana.
Forum slams proposed ECFA
3-Mar-2009    
Critics of the government yesterday told a forum that the government's proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China was tantamount to a “one China market.”
Free trade deal should exclude shipbuilding, Stoffer says
3-Mar-2009    
Peter Stoffer hopes to turn the tide on a controversial free trade agreement that could sink shipbuilding in Canada.
Trade unions set terms for EPA talks
3-Mar-2009    
The East Africa Trade Union Congress (EATUC) has joined groups that want the deadline for the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) between the East Africa Community and the European Commission extended.
Law firms from FTA partners to open local offices
3-Mar-2009    
The National Assembly passed a bill yesterday allowing law firms from the United States and countries that have free trade agreements with South Korea to set up local branches to provide legal consulting services.
Europe open to Thai trade talks
3-Mar-2009     Bangkok Post
The European Union is willing to begin bilateral free trade talks with Thailand in a process that would move together with existing Asean-EU talks, said Philippe Meyer, the directorate-general for trade at the European Commission. "It takes time for a region to behave like a region. So we need to go faster," he said.
EU takes "realist" tone with Colombia
2-Mar-2009     Washington Post
While some in the EU have voiced concern about Colombia's human rights failures, Europe's top politicians do not seem interested in linking this problem to the FTA.
Obama to push Panama accord, work on Colombia, Korea
2-Mar-2009     Bloomberg
President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to approve a long-delayed free-trade agreement with Panama and work to resolve remaining issues with the South Korea and Colombia accords so they can be ratified.
Sustaining global solidarity after Gaza
2-Mar-2009     Palestine Chronicle
In South America, serious pressure is building against the Israel-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA), threatening to derail it entirely. South American social movements, who have years of experience fighting against free trade, have integrated Palestine solidarity into their general work.