EU

US Bilateral Investment Treaties with EU Accession States

8-Jun-2004 US State Department

We are pleased that on September 2 the European Commission endorsed a political Understanding preserving U.S. bilateral investment treaties with eight countries that are acceding, or are candidates for accession, to the European Union (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria and Romania).

NGO Statement: Stop EU-ACP Free Trade Agreements

30-May-2004

Since 2002 the European Union (EU) and countries of the Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Group (ACP) have been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).

EU-Mercosur still far from ambitious trade pact

30-May-2004

Talks to link the European Union and South America in one of the world’s largest trade pacts are in their final phase but pose difficult challenges on both sides of the Atlantic.

Nigeria: Unions Seek Ways Out of Cotonou Pact Dilemma

26-May-2004

As the impact of the trade agreement between the disadvantaged African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries on the one hand, and the advantaged European countries on the other hand, known as Lome 1-4 Agreements between 1975 and 2000, and the new agreement called "Cotonou Agreement" signed on June 23, 2003 between the developing countries of 77 ACP and European Union (EU).

Russia-WTO: EU-Russia deal brings Russia a step closer to WTO membership

21-May-2004 DG Trade

EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and the Russian Economy Development and Trade Minister German Gref have signed today the agreement concluding the bilateral market access negotiations for the accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, in the presence of the European Commission President Romano Prodi, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the President of the European Council Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.

Acuerdo Mercosur-UE clave para destrabar ALCA | EU-Mercosur deal key to unlocking FTAA

20-May-2004

Un rápido acuerdo entre la Unión Europea (UE) y el bloque sudamericano Mercosur, que lidera Brasil,ayudaría a destrabar las negociaciones para crear el Area de LibreComercio de las Américas (ALCA) el 1 de enero próximo, tal como originalmente se planeó.

New ACP-EU trade arrangements: New barriers to eradicating poverty?

11-May-2004 New ACP-EU trade arrangements: New barriers to eradicating poverty?

The liberalisation of trade between the EU and ACP countries through the current EPA negotiations will be detrimental to poverty reduction programmes and could even undermine the Cotonou Agreement itself. This is the conclusion of a new independent civil society study published by Eurostep and its partners from five ACP countries.

Cotonou Agreement (2000)

26-Mar-2004

TRIPS-plus must stop

20-Mar-2004

Last month, GRAIN issued an open letter to Pascal Lamy, the chief of trade policy at the European Commission. In it, we disputed Mr Lamy’s public relations efforts aimed at trying to convince the world that the EU champions the rights of Third World farmers to save seeds.

EU-Bangladesh Cooperation Agreement (2001)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Egypt Association Agreement (2001)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Jordan Association Agreement (2002)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Korea Framework Agreement for Trade and Cooperation (2001)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Mediterranean Strategy 2002-2006

20-Mar-2004

The Barcelona Process, established in 1995, is the means through which the EU supports Mediterranean partners in their political, economic and social reforms while at the same time building a closer EU-Med partnership.

EU-Chile Association Agreement (2002)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Algeria Association Agreement (2002)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Lebanon Association Agreement (2002)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Morocco Association Agreement (2000)

20-Mar-2004

EU-Mexico Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement (2000)

20-Mar-2004

EU-PLO Interim Association Agreement (1997)

20-Mar-2004