Tag: European Union

• Saturday, September 1st 2012 - 06:25 UTC

  WTO says Argentina officially lodged a beef dispute against the US

  

  Argentina on Thursday officially lodged a dispute against US restrictions on imports of Argentinean beef and other meat products, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Friday.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 21:16 UTC

  EU threatens to impose tariffs on bio-diesel imported from Argentina

  

  The European Union threatened on Wednesday to impose tariffs on bio-diesel imported from Argentina and also Indonesia. The announcement was made today on the bloc’s Official Gazette.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 01:20 UTC

  Carter Centre absent as observer from Venezuelan October presidential election

  

  The Atlanta based Carter Centre said this week that it declined an invitation from Venezuela's National Electoral Council to have a team at the country's Oct. 7 presidential election. The Centre said it received the invitation too late ”to evaluate it and organize the necessary experts and financing”.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  Sunflower seed production down in Europe because of lack of rainfall

  

  Sunflower seed production in the European Union, Ukraine and Russia will drop 11.7% to a total of 24.82 million tons this year, from 28.12 million tons a year ago, Hamburg-based oilseed analyst Oil World said on Tuesday.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 09:00 UTC

  EC criticizes US risk rating agencies handling of the Euro-zone crisis

  

  A top official from the European Commission was particularly critical of the credit risk rating agencies in their handling of the Euro crisis and Germany brushed aside the latest rating agencies announcement saying the country is in a very sound economic and financial situation.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 16:57 UTC

  ECB warns Euro countries will have to yield fiscal, debt and economic policy sovereignty

  

  The Euro zone will have to get powers to limit the debt issuance of its members, intervene in national budgets and change national policies to build a deeper economic union, ECB Executive Board Member Joerg Asmussen said.

• Monday, July 2nd 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  PM Cameron suggests referendum on UK’s conditions and EU membership

  

  British Prime minister David Cameron has indicated that a referendum on the United Kingdom’s conditions of European Union membership is increasingly likely, but ruled out one that offers voters a straight “in or out” choice.

• Saturday, June 30th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  Relief in EU: German parliament approved Euro rescue fund and fiscal pact

  

  As expected, more than two-thirds of the lawmakers in Germany's parliament moved on Friday to approve the permanent Euro rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism, and a fiscal pact long championed by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 06:31 UTC

  EU announces at G20 ‘Tobin tax’, opposed by US. UK and Sweden

  

  The European Union will “soon” move forward with a financial transaction tax (FTT), European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Monday, as he also spoke in favour of Euro-bonds.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:11 UTC

  EU gets tough on border controls to address large-scale immigration

  

  European Union governments would be able to suspend passport-free travel in parts of Europe for as long as two years under regulations proposed on Thursday to address concerns over large-scale immigration.