About: trade liberalisation Archives
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Davos brings global trade deal ‘in sight’
Around 30 trade ministers from the world's largest economies breathed new life into-global trade negotiations by agreeing to restart talks in Geneva.
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Mandelson urges return to negotiating table
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.
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Businesses and trade unions debate future trade strategy
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.
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Pros and cons of reviving Doha
Calls to restart global trade talks are intensifying, but yet another meeting aimed at reviving the Doha Round looks set to fail.
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Mandelson rejects compromise on Doha
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.
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EU seeks trade deals with Korea, China
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.
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Commission says WTO talks unlikely to be resumed in near future
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.
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Southeast Asia follows in EU’s footsteps
Southeast Asian trade ministers have agreed to an accelerated timetable to turn their region into a European-style single market by 2015.
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The WTO Doha Development Round
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.
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WTO talks called off
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.
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Marathon talks fail to bring WTO breakthrough
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.
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From Bound Duties to Actual Protection: Industrial Liberalisation in the Doha Round
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.
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Energy liberalisation: Commission threatens Member States with legal action
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.
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The Question of Generation Adequacy in Liberalised Electricity Markets
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.
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EU decides to liberalise freight train services fully as from 2007
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.
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Commission proposes liberalising passenger rail transportation from 2010
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.
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Parliament and Council conflicts about liberalisation of railways
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.
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Piotr Kostro, President, Polish Chamber of Commerce of Medical Devices
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.
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European public transport at a crossroads
This paper analyses the issues at stake in liberalizing Europe's transportation networks.
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MEPs want liberalisation of railway passenger services by 2008
On 23 October, MEPs voted to open up competition on Europe's railways for freight and passenger traffic.
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Railways: Parliament on collision course with Council over opening up of passenger services
On 1 October, the Parliament's committee for transport adopted its report for the second reading on the Second Railway Package.
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Railway: Parliament to insist on opening up of freight and passenger services
On 9 September, the Parliament's committee for transport discussed its position for the second reading on the Second Railway Package.
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Pascal Lamy, European Commissioner for Trade
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.
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OCA theory and EMU Eastern enlargement – An empirical application
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.