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Liberalisation will facilitate US-M'sia FTA talks
Liberalisation of the financial sector will facilitate the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Malaysia and the United States, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said today.
ASEAN-EU FTA talks frozen
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the European Union have agreed to halt ongoing talks on the free trade agreement.
Johnson to represent Quebec at Canada-European Union trade talks
Former Parti Québecois premier Pierre Marc Johnson will represent Quebec in Canada-European Union trade talks.
“Independence Means the Capacity to Stand on one's Feet” Says Sidia Jatta
At the two-day sensitization workshop organised by The Gambia Social Forum on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) for National Assembly Members, Media and the Civil Society Representatives held on the 22-23 April, 2009 at the Corinthian Atlantic Hotel, Hon. Sidia Jatta, the National Assembly Member for Wuli West, gave critical analysis of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) regarding its overwhelming disadvantages and urged The Gambia not to sign it.
Canada and European Union launch historic economic partnership
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, along with European Union President Mirek Topolánek and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, today announced the historic launch of negotiations toward an economic partnership agreement between Canada and the European Union.
'Food colonialism' increasing hunger in Africa
The European Union is coercing some West African governments into allowing European-based fishing companies to deplete West Africa's fishing stocks in a new "food colonialism" that is now taking place between rich and poor countries around the world, according to British author George Monbiot.
Cracks appear in advance of Canada-EU trade talks launched
European officials say Canada promised everything was on the table, but a senior official says that's not the case.
GCC-EU FTA hits roadblock again
Free trade talks between the GCC and the European Union have been suspended again after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on human rights and customs duties on GCC exports to Europe.
EU's intellectual property agenda could impair access to medicines in the Andean region
The EU is more aggressive in its approach to intellectual property in trade agreements than the United States, MEPs learn
Human rights no block to EU-Colombia talks
As the European Union this week launches another round of negotiations with Colombia on a free trade agreement, trade unionists who live daily under the gun of right-wing paramilitaries linked to the government have in Brussels in the last week pleaded with the EU executive to suspend the talks.