Argentina

• Tuesday, July 6th 2010 - 09:37 UTC

  EU files document on ‘Argentine protectionism’ to WTO Council for Trade

  

  European Commission officials confirmed Monday that a document on “Argentina’s protectionism” was filed to the World Trade Organization within the framework of the growing concern among several European countries about Buenos Aires position which is also seen as an obstacle for the renewed trade and cooperation talks between the EU and Mercosur.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2010 - 09:17 UTC

  Automotive production and exports soar in Argentina

  

  Automotive production rates in Argentina increased 46.6% year-on-year in June to 65,256 units, according to the ADEFA Argentina car-makers' association. The rates are promoting the domestic economy.

• Monday, July 5th 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  EU takes Argentina’s “restrictive measures” on trade to the WTO

  

  The first week of negotiations in years between the European Union and Mercosur to reach a political and trade association agreement that took place in Buenos Aires did not end well.

• Monday, July 5th 2010 - 04:57 UTC

  Three out of ten Argentine urban households, victims of crimes in 2009

  

  Three out of ten Argentine households have been a victim of crime in 2009, according to the latest poll from the Argentine Catholic University, UCA, published Sunday in the Buenos Aires daily Clarin.

• Monday, July 5th 2010 - 04:30 UTC

  Argentina protests visit of Chilean students to Falklands

  

  The recent Chilean students’ visit to the Falkland Islands for three weeks to improve their English and become acquainted with the Islands’ culture was questioned by Argentine diplomatic officials who contacted Punta Arenas mayor Vladimiro Mimica, reports the Sunday edition of La Prensa Austral.

• Friday, July 2nd 2010 - 03:32 UTC

  BP Argentine assets on sale to pay for Gulf of Mexico spill; China interested

  

  China National Offshore Oil Corp., the country’s third-largest oil and gas company, declined to comment on reports it is holding talks to buy as much as 9 billion US dollars of BP Plc’s assets in South America.

• Friday, July 2nd 2010 - 00:31 UTC

  Argentina upgrades Tourism to Ministry given its growing economic contribution

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner led the swearing-in ceremony of Enrique Meyer as Minister of the newly created Ministry of Tourism. Meyer was Secretary of Tourism but this week the post was upgraded to Ministry.

• Thursday, July 1st 2010 - 07:12 UTC

  “This is no soccer match, only both sides must benefit”, says Timerman

  

  Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Héctor Timerman cautioned that the dispute with Uruguay over the Botnia/UPM pulp mill and its environmental impact can’t be seen as “a football match where one side wins and the other looses”, but rather as a situation where “the peoples of both countries benefit”.

• Thursday, July 1st 2010 - 07:08 UTC

  Argentina prepares to begin drilling in Malvinas basin in second half of 2010

  

  Towards the end of the year Argentina’s YPF in association with Pan American Energy and Petrobras will begin exploring for oil in the Malvinas basin, following the contract for an oil rig which has been signed, according to oil industry sources in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2010 - 06:24 UTC

  Uruguay to reply Argentina’s joint monitoring proposal next week

  

  Uruguay will reply next week Argentina’s proposal for the joint monitoring of the River Uruguay, said Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro after holding a three hours meeting with his visiting counterpart Hector Timerman.