Stories for November 21st 2016

Monday, November 21st 2016 - 17:39 UTC
Merkel to seek fourth term as German chancellor

Angela Merkel announced on Sunday she will run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, despite growing rejection to her open-door migrant policy
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:15 UTC
APEC summit criticizes protectionism and consider Asia-Pacific free trade area

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski brought the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to a close in Lima on Sunday with a message against protectionism and awareness that the meeting was held “at a key moment in the world's economic history.”
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:06 UTC
Peña Nieto says Mexico willing to discuss NAFTA with Trump

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is well aware of his country's need to take a new approach at bilateral relations with the United States under the coming Republican presidency of Donald Trump. “We’re at the stage of prioritizing dialogue as the path through which we may able to establish a new agenda for bilateral relations,” Peña Nieto said in Lima at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:57 UTC
Earthquake in San Juan rattles Argentina, Chile

A strong earthquake with its epicenter located 19 km southwest of the city of San Juan reaching 6.5 degrees on the Richter scale took place Sunday afternoon. No casualties were reported but it was sensed as far s in Buenos Aires
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:51 UTC
Sarkozy retires from politics after losing rightwing primary elections

“It is time for me to approach a life with more private passion and less public passion,” he said as he announced he would endorse his former prime minister, François Fillon, in the second round of voting next Sunday against Alain Juppé, also a former Prime Minister under Jacques Chirac.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:34 UTC
Japanese PM arrives in Argentina with pledges to increase investments

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make an official visit to Argentina this Monday hoping to boost investment in the Latin American nation, officials said. It is the first visit to Argentina by a Japanese prime minister in 57 years—the last was by Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi in 1959.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC
Nobody is going to invest in Argentina while fearing populism could be round the corner

Even admitting that the Argentine economy will expand 3% next year, nobody wants to invest in the country because they are not sure that populism won't be back in a couple of years, according to economist and former central bank chair Javier Gonzalez Fraga.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:10 UTC
Visitors from Mercosur to benefit from faster entry to UK as Registered Traveler Service is expanded

Business travelers and frequent visitors from a host of countries, including Mercosur founding members, will be able to benefit from faster entry to the United Kingdom as the Government’s Registered Traveler Service is expanded. From this Monday (21 November), frequent travelers to the UK from 16 new countries will be eligible to apply for membership of the scheme, which brings the potential for improved trade and tourism links.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 10:43 UTC
Mercosur/EU accord in 2018, following election results in France and Germany

The free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union could be concluded in 2018 depending on the election results next year in France and Germane anticipated a Brazilian official during a forum on foreign trade held in Sao Paulo. France is holding presidential elections next May 2017 and Germany some time later.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 08:28 UTC
Argentina upset with Falklands for insisting Darwin cemetery operation should be trilateral

The Argentine government is trying to agree with the UK on the humanitarian mission to identify the remains of an estimated eighty Argentine combatants (from 1982) buried in Falklands' Darwin cemetery, but there are still details to reach, more political than technical, since the Falkland Islanders insist in being part of the official documents, something “which is unacceptable for the Argentine foreign ministry”.