Tag: Mauricio Macri President

• Tuesday, May 9th 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  Macri receives Italian president to boost “unique” links and EU/Mercosur talks

  

  President Mauricio Macri met on Monday midday with his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, who is in Buenos Aires on the first official visit by an Italian president to Argentina in 16 years. The two leaders underlined the unique links between Italy and Argentina and announced the re-launching of diplomatic and trade relations.

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 - 07:15 UTC

  Argentina promotes sales to China through e-commerce Alibaba

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri and Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Tuesday in Buenos Aires as a way to open up new trade opportunities and to support merchants that are marketing products on Alibaba's e-commerce platforms.

• Monday, April 24th 2017 - 14:36 UTC

  Trump receives Argentine president Macri at the White House on Thursday

  

  Argentine and United States presidents Mauricio Macri and Donald Trump will be addressing bilateral trade, the Venezuelan situation, combating drugs and declassification of documents from the last dictatorship when they meet next Thursday at the While House, according to Chargé d'Affaires Thomas Cooney currently running the US embassy in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2017 - 04:13 UTC

  Macri confident a Mercosur/European Union trade accord can be expected in the second half of 2017

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri is convinced that in the second half of the year Mercosur will sign the long awaited trade agreement with the European Union and will establish closer links with the Pacific Alliance, according to a report in one of Buenos Aires leading radios.

• Monday, April 10th 2017 - 08:12 UTC

  Trump will host Argentina's Macri at the White House on April 27

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri confirmed that a date has been officially established for his meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, April 27. The date was revealed by the president Macri during an interview with Bloomberg.

• Thursday, April 6th 2017 - 08:05 UTC

  General strike in Argentina; Macri hosts the World Economic Forum

  

  Workers are committed to a general strike in recession-hit Argentina on Thursday, drawing complaints from conservative President Mauricio Macri as he prepares to host leaders and business people for an economic forum.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2017 - 06:32 UTC

  S&P raised Argentina's credit rating to “B”, on the “verge of exiting recession”

  

  Standard & Poor's raised Argentina's credit rating one notch Tuesday, from B- to B, saying Latin America's third-largest economy was on the verge of exiting recession.The rating bump gives a boost to conservative President Mauricio Macri, who has launched sweeping - often unpopular - economic reforms aimed at reviving growth.

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 10:37 UTC

  Macri mixed local politics in the Malvinas Fallen and Veterans Day anniversary

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri underlined that dialogue will facilitate the Malvinas sovereignty non-renounceable claim and ensure that it is really effective. The Argentine leader was addressing a delegation of Malvinas Fallen Relatives and Veterans, at the Olivos presidential residence on Sunday which marked the 35th anniversary of the beginning of the South Atlantic conflict in 1982.

• Saturday, April 1st 2017 - 22:58 UTC

  Macri will receive Malvinas' Families and Combatants on Sunday 35th anniversary of the war

  

  Argentina prepares to commemorate this Sunday the Malvinas War Veterans and Fallen Day, which according to the official calendar marks the 35th anniversary of the start of the 1982 war when the Falklands were invaded by Argentine forces, leading to a 74-day conflict, which left 907 dead, (649 Argentines, 255 British and three Falkland Islanders).

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 07:59 UTC

  Netherlands prepared to help with Falklands' dialogue, once UK leaves the EU

  

  Holland is prepared to contribute to the Falklands/Malvinas dialogue between Argentina and UK, once Britain has definitively left the European Union, said on Tuesday foreign minister Susana Malcorra who is part of the official delegation of president Mauricio Macri state visit to the Netherlands.