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Theresa May names India among nations keen on FTA with UK post-Brexit
Countries including Canada, China, India, Mexico, Singapore and South Korea have already said they would welcome talks on future free trade agreements with the UK.
EU proposes more aid, trade pact to support Tunisia
The European Commission proposed to increase aid to Tunisia and complete a deeper trade pact within three years.
German farmers divided over EU-Canada trade deal
The German agricultural sector is divided in its opinion of the deal: large farms relish the advantages and small enterprises fear the competition.
“If beef is not included”, there won't be no Mercosur-EU trade agreement, warns Uruguay
European Union and Mercosur coordinators to exchange the list of goods and services in mid October, the first formal meeting of its kind in fourteen years.
Commission boosts infringement procedures against five countries
The European Commission today ramped up infringement procedures against Austria, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden to push them toward scraping their bilateral investment treaties with other EU nations.
NFU President meets with EU farm leaders in Brussels, talks dairy crisis and CETA
NFU President encouraged Europe to solve its ongoing dairy crisis by adopting a Canadian-style supply management system instead of attempting to use the CETA trade agreement to increase dairy exports to Canada.
EU wants swifter progress on economic partnership with Japan
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko has received a letter from a senior European Commission official urging prompt conclusion of an economic partnership agreement.
Kenya finally deposits EU trade pact ahead of Saturday deadline
Just a week after the National Assembly unanimously endorsed the Economic Partnership Agreement, the government deposited the same instruments with the EU.
Big Pharma lobbying in TTIP: Bad news for patients
Big Pharma is everything but shy when it comes to lobbying EU policy-makers. But what exactly are these groups lobbying for in TTIP?
EU wins the battle for reciprocal trade access in Africa
The six African countries threatened with losing access to the European single market have finally agreed to sign the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). But the continent’s regional integration may suffer as a result. EurActiv France reports.