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Around 30 trade ministers from the world's largest economies breathed new life into-global trade negotiations by agreeing to restart talks in Geneva. 

Trade commissioner believes EU leaders must immediately grab the "narrow window of opportunity" to conclude the Doha Round before the July 2007 expiry of the US Trade Promotion Act.

Amid fears that the Democrats' victory in US Congress could put an end to already troubled efforts to reach a global trade pact, the Commission has discussed future trade strategies with stakeholders.

Calls to restart global trade talks are intensifying, but yet another meeting aimed at reviving the Doha Round looks set to fail.

A deal proposed by Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile to revive global trade talks before the end of the year has been rejected outright by the European Trade Commissioner.

EU leaders push ahead for bilateral deals with China and Korea while Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson keeps up the fight for a multilateral trade pact.

A meeting of trade ministers on September 9-10 in Brazil has little hope of reviving collapsed global trade talks, according to the Commission’s Trade spokesman Peter Power.
 

Southeast Asian trade ministers have agreed to an accelerated timetable to turn their region into a European-style single market by 2015.

After six years of troubled negotiations, the Doha Development Round, aimed at freeing global trade and at extending the benefits of globalisation to developing countries, has yet to come to a successful conclusion.

WTO chief Pascal Lamy has formally suspended talks on a multilateral trade deal, bringing five years of negotiations to an end. Major trading powers, including the EU are blaming the US for the collapse.

Negotiators from the world’s leading trading powers have again failed to unblock talks on liberalising global trade, leading to claims that the five year long Doha Round could be suspended.

This is a working paper from Mohamed Hedi Bchir, Lionel Fontagné and Sébastien Jean of Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). 

In the run up to the Doha trade negotiations, this study, published in November 2005, looks at different methods which could be used in liberalising trade markets and analyses the probable effects of each.

Only two Member States have met the deadline of 1 July 2004 to implement EU legislation opening up the EU's energy markets for commercial consumers. The Commission is not impressed.

This paper presents an overview of the reasons why unregulated markets for the production of electricity cannot be expected to invest sufficiently in generation capacity on a continuous basis.

MEPs and Member States have struck a conciliation agreement to open the freight market to competition by 2007. The liberalisation is designed to help the railways increase their market share of freight transport.

Under new Commission proposals, the transportation of passengers by rail should be liberalised from 2010 and the EU rail passengers would get the same level of compensation in case of delayed trains.

The conciliation procedure on the second railway package has just started. The most sensitive issue to be discussed will be the timetable for the liberalisation of railways for passenger transportation.

Mr Kostro shares his views with EURACTIV's readers on enlargement, the current situation of health care in Poland and the lobbying efforts of the Polish medical devices sector.

This paper analyses the issues at stake in liberalizing Europe's transportation networks.

On 23 October, MEPs voted to open up competition on Europe's railways for freight and passenger traffic.

On 1 October, the Parliament's committee for transport adopted its report for the second reading on the Second Railway Package.

On 9 September, the Parliament's committee for transport discussed its position for the second reading on the Second Railway Package.

Commissioner Lamy insists that the EU for the 21st century must be a stronger, political Europe, able to transform its interdependence into solidarity. That is the basis for enabling the EU to promote its model of society on the global scene.

The accession of several Central and Eastern European Countries to Euroland is likely to be realised within the next years and it is an important issue to assess whether these candidates are prepared for EMU membership better or worse than the current participants.