Trade & Investment 2012 -Special Edition Index
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:31pm
According to recent surveys, 26% of investors consider Northern Europe, and the United Kingdom in particular, attractive destinations, while just 3% of business leaders are interested in investing in Southern Europe. Trade imbalances are also significant within the EU, according to the latest Eurostat data, given that Germany's exports...
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:29pm
During the international financial crisis, China and Europe have maintained sound communication and co-ordination and have worked hard to keep markets open. These efforts have generated favorable opportunities for business co-operation between China and Europe
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:27pm
The EU-South Korea FTA was the first of a new generation of trade agreements aimed at taking advantage of the world's high growth regions.
EU negotiators are thrashing out agreements with major economies such as the United States,
India, Canada, Japan and Singapore
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:25pm
So that's why I think in terms of the policy or regulation or even the financial support, we should reward investors with a more easy environment, and the flexibility to manage their businesses. There has to be security in financial terms.
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:21pm
Tellingly, nearly two-thirds of investors in the EU expect EU policy decisions to negatively affect their decisions to invest in Europe, making it crucial that the European business community actively participates in shaping European policy at the most senior level.
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:17pm
In the field of international trade there has been a flurry of activity since 2009 when the Parliament acquired new responsibilities under the Lisbon Treaty. The GSP trade scheme with developing countries has been revised; the Parliament endorsed trade agreements with Morocco and with the Pacific region but rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting...
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:15pm
It is also worth mentioning that the EU initiated a new generation of FTAs, so-called Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTA), which go far beyond what has been traditionally negotiated within a typical FTA framework by addressing issues such as competition, IPR, services, approximation of laws, mutual recognition of standards...
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:12pm
Inbound investment from the EU to Korea has grown by 60.5% or $3.6 billion between July 2011 and March 2012. I believe that this can be attributed to the high quality of Korea’s human resources, advanced infrastructure and geographical proximity to the world’s second and third largest markets
Trade liberalisation and standardisation – new directions in the ‘low politics’ in EU foreign policy
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 11:08pm
Globalization’s profound impact on the EU’s internal market has resulted in a growing ‘spaghetti bowl’ of trade arrangements and a continued drive towards the harmonisation of laws, so as to secure EU market access in third countries and create regulatory convergence and interoperability
Article | July 15, 2012 - 11:05pm
WASHINGTON, DC – The world is now in the fourth year of the Great Recession. So far, the economies belonging to the World Trade Organization have resisted the kind of widespread protectionism that would make a bad situation much worse. But protectionist pressures are building as weary politicians hear more and more...
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 10:58pm
Companies need predictable and secure environments if they are to invest. Firms are obviously not interested in completely unregulated markets, but basic regulatory aspects such as transparency and non-discrimination
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 10:50pm
The underlying strength of this relationship, should, however, not trigger complacency. Rather, both the EU and the US must realise the dormant potential which lies in deepening and broadening this relationship, especially at a time when positive impulses are hard to find in the global economy.
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 10:47pm
The declining share in China's trade does not necessarily mean that EU is less important for China, but means China's trade is expanding in other markets, which reflects China's multi-market strategy.
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 10:44pm
Since the Lisbon Treaty came into force, international trade relations have become a core piece of EU actions and policies. To this extent, European institutions have adapted their organisation and widen its functions in order to cope with the great challenges ahead related to this action field.
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 10:40pm
New Europe recently spoke with MEP Antonio Lopez Isturiz, Secretary General of the European People’s Party (EPP), and asked his opinions on trade developments in the European Union and beyond.
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 10:38pm
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s current economic slowdown has no shortage of causes: Europe’s financial turmoil, sputtering recovery in the United States, and weak domestic investment growth, to name the most commonly cited factors.
Article | July 15, 2012 - 10:35pm
In late 2009, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tasked a Vision Group of relevant persons from both Indonesia and EU to produce recommendations on how to take relations to the next level.
Blog entry | July 15, 2012 - 10:33pm
New Europe speaks to Marietta Giannakou MEP (EL, EPP) about investment prospects in Greece.
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