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EU trade ministers back wider ASEAN mandate
The European Commission is to launch negotiations on investment protection with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as part of ongoing free trade talks.
EU should allow easier entry for Indian professionals to support free trade pact: Icrier
The European Union should allow easier entry and movement of Indian professionals in order to generate support for the free trade pact between the two that's been under negotiation for the last six years, Indian think tank Icrier said in a study commissioned by the 27-country grouping.
EPA is no more
In a surprise move this week, the European Union has moved to suspend negotiations for a new economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the islands of the Pacific, ISLANDS BUSINESS has been told.
EU reported to have called off Pacific negotiations on EPA
The Solomon Islands government says the European Union has suspended negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement between 14 Pacific Island Countries and the EU - 9 years after its EPA was launched in September, 2004.
Canada-EU trade deal: Sell-out or celebration? Public needs a veto on massive corporate rights treaty
Responding to reports today that Canada and the European Union have concluded negotiations on a massive new corporate rights treaty called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Council of Canadians is demanding that parliament and the public be given an opportunity to review and make changes to the deal, or even to reject it outright, before it can be signed.
Stephen Harper à Bruxelles pour conclure l'accord de libre-échange Canada-UE (officiel)
Le Premier ministre canadien Stephen Harper se rendra à Bruxelles jeudi en vue de conclure l'accord de libre-échange que le Canada et l'Union européenne négocient depuis plus de quatre ans, a annoncé mercredi soir son porte-parole.
Conservatives open door to free trade with EU after reaching cheese import deal
Negotiators have agreed to double the amount of European cheese imported into Canada — to around 30,000 tonnes a year — in order to get the Europeans on board.
Anfaco insists on excluding Thai tuna from EU-Thailand FTA
Spain's National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish and Shellfish (Anfaco Cecopesca) is to once again ask the authorities of the European Union for the exclusion of Thai tuna from the free trade agreement that the European bloc is negotiating with Thailand.
EU Parliament panel may raise FTA issue with Anand Sharma
India-EU free trade agreement is expected to be a major issue that will come up in the meeting between a high-level delegation of European Parliament's panel on international trade and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma.
Thailand: Assembly of the Poor demanding Thai-EU FTA Talk must not restrain freedom of seed
Over 100 farmers from Assembly of the Poor gathered in front of Thai Government House in Bangkok late September in a campaign action to scrutinize the implications for farmers' seeds of the second round of Thai-EU FTA negotiations going on in Chiangmai