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Ads by Google      The Federation of European Employers (FedEE) The EU's textile industries will come under severe pressure due to the WTO's removal of trade quotas, whilst the processes of privatisation and market liberalisation (especially in the energy sector) will near completion in many new EU states such as the Czech Republic. At a political level, governments will be striving to gain the backing of citizens for the new EU constitution, whilst social and employment ministers will continue their struggle to put some substance into the Lisbon agenda's goal of making the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. Towards the end of 2005, negotiations on EU membership will begin with Turkey, a country that could become a powerhouse for future economic growth throughout the region. http://www.fedee.com/      Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) - Water Infobrief #3 - WTO and Water: The EU's Crusade for Corporate Expansion The European Commission, which coordinates the EU's position in the WTO talks, worked in close consultation with Vivendi, Suez, RWE and other water giants when it finalised the EU liberalisation wish-list. Liberalisation of water markets through the GATS talks would not only help Europe-based water TNCs to expand further. While WTO rules in principle allow a country to undo its GATS commitment in a given service sector, in practice this is virtually impossible.[13] In light of the negative experiences with water privatisation in many cities around the world, locking-in the liberalisation status quo and making privatisation irreversible would be a disastrous mistake. http://www.corporateeurope.org/water/infobrief3.htm   (2037 words)      GATSwatch -- GATS cacerolazo The protest will be modelled after the Argentinian 'cacerolazos', and is directed against the non-transparent and non-democratic way in which the European Union is handling the negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on liberalisation of trade in services (GATS). The GATS negotiations are not restricted to the (further) liberalisation of financial and professional services, like accountancy, assurance, banking, consultancy and IT-services, but extend to essential public services like culture (libraries, public broadcasting), education, health, public transport and water. It also asks for a moratorium on the GATS negotiations to enable a full assessment of impacts of services liberalisation and an open debate over the role of public services and the desirability of further liberalisation of services. http://www.gatswatch.org/cacerolazo.html   (480 words)      Slovenia Business Week The recently reached agreements on further liberalisation of the agricultural market between individual CEFTA signatories and the EU have led to a state where advantages that CEFTA members grant to each other are not as big as those given by the EU. It is thus essential for the future development of trade relations between CEFTA members that a limited use of protection measures is assured, along with a positive development in the field of agricultural market liberalisation and openness of the regional framework to new members. The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) signatories will continue to make efforts to diminish the hurdles to free trade among the members, while the organisation remains open for newcomers, was written in a joint declaration signed upon the conclusion of the CEFTA summit. http://www.gzs.si/SBW/head.asp?idc=11365   (480 words)      Everything but Arms (EBA) initiative - Its fine-tuning authorised by the European Commission - PROSI Magazine - February 2001 - N° 385 - International Trade EBA would go beyond all previous EU commitments on trade liberalisation for poor countries. While safeguarding the principle that EBA will cover all goods except the arms trade, the scenario to be proposed to the Council will allow Mr Lamy to show flexibility on the transition periods for full liberalisation concerning only three particularly sensitive products (sugar, rice and bananas), if necessary. EBA goes beyond all previous EU commitments by proposing to grant unrestricted duty-free access to all products (except arms) from all LDCs. http://www.prosi.net.mu/mag2001/385feb/eba385.htm   (480 words)      Planet Ark Claude Turmes, a Green Luxembourg Euro MP who is guiding the liberalisation package through the EU assembly, was due to meet EU competition authorities yesterday to present his concerns about the strong position of firms like Electricite de France, and Germany's RWE and E.ON. Green politicians in the European Parliament, concerned to ensure renewable energy firms can access liberalised markets, will use the report to push for tougher antitrust action and legal safeguards in the forthcoming EU liberalisation directive. Turmes said the EU should consider reviewing more electricity mergers, most of which are now examined by national competition authorities. http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=16189   (480 words)      NiZA-occasional paer; 1 - The EU-SA negotiations: the sting is in the tail / A.Graumans Although some have argued that the SADC FTA was used as leverage to enforce a better deal from the EU, the EU was eager to link tariff liberalisation between the EU and South Africa with tariff liberalisation between South Africa/SACU and the rest of SADC from the start of the negotiations. One of the basic principles of co-operation between the EU and other regions is the sovereignty of the region to decide on the composition of the group. The applied tariffs for these products are between 10 and 25 per cent and the Commission argues that it has been proven that the exporters of these products can pay the tariff and still sell these products at the EU market in large quantities (Pinheiro, 1997:6). http://www.niza.nl/uk/publications/016/niza-paperno1-1998.htm   (480 words)      Trade This sends a signal to the rest of the world that we are serious about getting the most disadvantaged to share in the fruits of trade liberalisation.’ Mr Lamy paid tribute to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who had personally written to EU Heads of State to encourage them to support the measure. The decision to proceed with the ‘Everything But Arms’ initiative proves that the EU had heard the message developing countries had delivered in Seattle, Lamy added. The failure to start a new round of world trade negotiations there in December 1999 was due largely to the developing world’s perceived exclusion from the benefits of liberalisation. http://www.deltza.cec.eu.int/en/trade/5_march.htm   (480 words)      EUROPEAN UNION-MERCOSUR: EU PRESENTS ITS COMPLETED OFFER TO MERCOSUR IN ON-GOING TRADE TALKS The offer proposes a gradual liberalisation of Mercosur exports of industrial and agricultural goods to the EU, the opening of its services market, access to a public procurement market worth €200 billion as well as non-discriminatory rules for Mercosur investors in Europe. The EU believes that the issues of domestic support to the agricultural sector is an issue which needs to be addressed in the on-going WTO trade talks and not at the bi-regional level. Mercosur Association Agreement, the EU has today sent Mercosur a completed offer. http://www.eurunion.org/News/press/2004/200400132.htm   (528 words)      Europa - Information Society - Developing a successful European Information Society is at the very heart of the EU's "Lisbon Goal" of becoming the world's most dynamic and competitive economy by 2010. By its very nature, the Information Society cuts across traditional boundaries, so this thematic portal is your guide through all relevant EU policies and activities... Safer Internet Day will be celebrated by more than 68 organisations in 32 countries across the world, including 22 EU countries, Russia, Argentina, New Zealand and the USA. http://europa.eu.int/information_society/index_en.htm   (1084 words)      Single Market for electricity and natural gas - state of play - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance The Commission urges that the EU take action to promote electricity generated from renewable energy sources with the view to increase green electricity in a substantial and sustainable way, and increasing attention will need to be paid to the environmental dimension of the internal energy market to meet EU environmental objectives. The Commission is to implement a specific technical assistance programme vis-à-vis candidate countries for accession to the EU with the view to ensure that all the opportunities from a wider single energy market are seized. The Commission is to examine the consumer dimension of the liberalisation process, especially its impact on residential consumers and how the provisions put in place to guarantee universal service and the protection of consumers are functioning. http://www.eubusiness.com/Energy/10222   (889 words)      Northern European Perceptions of the Barcelona Process. Richard Gillespie While the economic agenda of Barcelona –by far the most defined outcome of the Conference– has been pushed much more forcefully by the EU as a whole, the insistence upon political liberalisation and human rights (which receive direct mention in each of the Euro-Mediterranean association agreements) should not be seen as mere rhetoric. Presumably, northern European governments including the Tory government in Britain and the Kohl administration in Germany would claim some credit for the economic doctrine behind the Barcelona process which is emphatically neo-liberal in its belief in the economic efficiency of market mechanisms. This has made it increasingly hard for the EU to accept French leadership in the development of the Union’s Mediterranean policy, and a growing number of member-states have expressed their own views on the subject. http://www.cidob.org/ingles/publicaciones/Afers/37gillespie.cfm   (889 words)      WWF - European Environmental Issues A real common EU energy policy driven by transparent harmonisation of the markets and effective liberalisation of the power and gas sectors can help to both combat climate change and ensure security of energy supply, says WWF. At the European Council in Brussels, EU Heads of State and Government agreed to have a common energy policy for the European Union. A new WWF report shows that despite the EU commitment to halt biodiversity loss by 2010, vast sums of European Union money are spent on roads, dams and irrigation schemes which threaten critically endangered species and key habitats in Europe. http://www.panda.org/epo   (328 words)      The EU's relations with Israel - Overview In line with the new generation of Association Agreements between the EU and its Mediterranean partners, the preamble emphasises the importance of the principles of the United Nations Charter, in particular the observance of human rights, democratic principles and economic freedom. The fifth meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council was held in Brussels on 13 December 2004, under the chair of the Netherlands Presidency (Foreign Minister Bot), with Israel’s Foreign Minister Shalom, EU High Representative Solana, and External Relations Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner. A Protocol has been concluded which amends the Agreement to accommodate the enlargement of the Union to 25 Member States in May 2004. http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/israel/intro   (3167 words)      European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Autonomous decision making: member states have granted the European Commission power to issue decisions in certain areas such as competition law, State Aid control and liberalisation. A key activity of the EU is the establishment and administration of a common single market, consisting of a customs union, a single currency (adopted by 12 of the 25 member states), a Common Agricultural Policy, a common trade policy, and a Common Fisheries Policy. The most important EU institutions are the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union   (5119 words)      Centre for a Social Europe Dutch EU referendum will be “public services vs liberalisation” The French Socialist Party has historically been a strong advocate of further EU integration – what is surprising is the extent to which the Party has split over the Constitution, and the lack of enthusiasm on all sides for the deal on the table. The French Socialists vote tomorrow (1 December) on their Party’s stance towards the EU Constitution, and polls suggest it will be a ‘yes’. http://www.social-europe.org.uk/bulletins/041130.htm   (5119 words)      EU Presidency 2004 Website > Latest News The TABD comprises business leaders from US and European companies operating in the United States, Europe and globally and seeks to establish a barrier-free transatlantic market between the US and EU that will serve as a catalyst for global trade liberalisation and prosperity. The TABD will present to the EU/US Summit in Dromoland Castle on Saturday 26 June 2004 their report and recommendations for the establishment of a barrier-free transatlantic market. On the eve of the EU/US Summit (Friday 25 June 2004) the Executive Board of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) will meet in Adare Manor, County Limerick. http://www.eu2004.ie/templates/news.asp?sNavlocator=66&list_id=860   (339 words)      The EU's relations with Bangladesh - Overview Bangladesh’s import from EU In recent years, exports from the EU to Bangladesh focus on vegetable products, notably cereals, products of the chemical and allied industries and machinery and mechanical appliances. Bangladesh’s export to EU The EU is the biggest trade partner of Bangladesh. Bangladesh has pursued a policy of trade liberalisation throughout the last ten years. http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/bangladesh/intro   (2255 words)      European Parliament UK Office - News Item The draft legislation, which will now be considered again by EU governments in the light of the European Parliament's vote, also requires the European Commission to carry out a study of the impact of full liberalisation on the maintenance of the universal postal service. Moreover, the European Commission has been asked to assess the implications of the noise rules for the music and entertainment industries and to consider other means of controlling noise in these sectors. The European Parliament has backed EU legislation designed to get national postal monopolies to open their markets to further competition. http://www.europarl.org.uk/news/textonly/txitems2002/march13.htm   (2255 words)      European Union article - European Union other official names Detail Motto English European symbols Official languages - What-Means.com Autonomous decision making: Member States have granted the European Commission power to issue decisions in certain areas such as competition law, State Aid control and liberalisation. The European Union or EU is an international organisation of 25 European states, established by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht treaty). The term European Community (or Communities) was used for the group of members prior to the establishment of the European Union. http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/European_Union   (3179 words)      European Union - free-definition Autonomous decision making: Member States have granted the European Commission power to issue decisions in certain areas such as competition law, State Aid control and liberalisation. The EU has evolved from a trade body into an economic and political partnership. The Government and Politics of the European Union by Neill Nugent (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) ISBN 0333984617 http://www.netlexikon.akademie.de/European-Union.html   (3346 words)      Europa - Information Society - Developing a successful European Information Society is at the very heart of the EU's "Lisbon Goal" of becoming the world's most dynamic and competitive economy by 2010. By its very nature, the Information Society cuts across traditional boundaries, so this thematic portal is your guide through all relevant EU policies and activities... Tele-communications liberalisation, the explosive growth of the Internet and the increasingly networked nature of business and society all point to one thing - the birth of the Information Society (IS). http://europa.eu.int/information_society/index_en.htm   (790 words)      Article - G20: THEIR POWER IS NOT OURS The G20 did a good job in stalling the negotiations in Cancun and they are an important tactical ally in efforts to block consensus, derail and disempower the WTO, especially if they can hold to their Cancun position which is clearly so unacceptable to the EU and the US. Second, the G20 is trying to "combine the broader interests of economic and social development, especially in rural areas, with trade liberalisation." Whether this is possible in the framework of the WTO remains to be seen, but many are sceptical. So, in a highly speculative mode, "what if" the EU and the G20, through various configurations of bilateral agreements with individual G20 countries or through regional trade bodies such as the Mercosur, cobble together an "Agreement on Agriculture Plus" (AOA plus) that would set the benchmark for AOA negotiations in the future? http://www.focusweb.org/popups/articleswindow.php?id=425   (790 words)      Oxfam - Trade - The Impact of the EU’s ‘Everything but Arms’ Proposal The 'cost' to the EU of EBA is so small that its derailment by vocal lobbies would be seen by the broader group of developing countries as clear evidence that the EU is unable to enter into meaningful negotiations on further multilateral liberalisation. EBA is also likely to have an indirect impact on the stalled WTO multilateral trade negotiations as a gesture of EU good faith. Yet claims that EBA will result in a substantial increase in imports, to the detriment of other developing countries and EU producers, are counter-intuitive and not supported by the available data. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/trade/eu_arms.htm   (790 words)      InBrief 6A: Comparing EU free trade agreements: Agriculture. Comparing EU free trade agreements is aimed at trade negotiators, policy makers, officials and experts in gathering a better technical insight into the evolution of EU trade agreements and the approaches adopted by the EU in negotiating these agreements. Unlike the MED agreements, the agreements with South Africa, Mexico and Chile are characterised by the assumption of a general liberalisation within a predetermined period of time. The latest free trade agreement concluded by the EU to date is the one signed with Chile in November 2002. http://www.ecdpm.org/Web_ECDPM/Web/Content/Content.nsf/0/48615568FCD0BF83C1256F07002C6BA3?OpenDocument   (6020 words)      CUSTOMS UNION BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION The Customs Union with the EU is the most comprehensive element that contributes to strengthening Turkey’s expanding role as a business partner. The completion of the Customs Union is the most important development effecting Turkish economy since the adoption of liberalisation measures by the 1980s. In this regard, Turkey, as defined in the Article 24 of GATT, eliminated the customs duties on imports from the EU and adopted of the EU’s common customs tariff for imports from third countries. http://www.foreigntrade.gov.tr/ab/ingilizce/gbnot.htm   (416 words)      Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP - European Union - Greater Liberalisation of the EU Gas and Electricity Markets To Stop Power Cuts? (24/11/2003) from Mondaq European Union: Greater Liberalisation of the EU Gas and Electricity Markets To Stop Power Cuts? Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP - European Union - Greater Liberalisation of the EU Gas and Electricity Markets To Stop Power Cuts? Do you have a question for the author? http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp?articleid=23427&print=1   (221 words)      Harold Doan and Associates Ltd. - EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson to Morocco and Tunisia 24-25 March 2005 Commissioner Mandelson will encourage both Morocco and Tunisia to improve investment conditions, particularly by further liberalisation of service markets and further moves to anchor their economic and regulatory systems to that of the EU. A major step forward will be the liberalisation of services and investment, for which I intend to ask the European Council for a negotiating mandate.” Commissioner Mandelson said: “I want to use this visit to reinforce the EU’s commitment to a genuine privileged partnership with the Maghreb as part of our strong traditional links to the wider Euro-Mediterranean region. http://www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1767   (645 words)      Helena Sousa, The Liberalisation of Media and Communications in Portugal A more profound analysis of the liberalisation/privatisation of the Portuguese communications during the PSD tutelage and the continuation of this strategy by Socialists is yet to be made. For Portugal, the liberalisation process was perceived as inevitable once no other alternatives existed (see speech of Ferreira do Amaral on the 5th APDC Congress in Lisbon, 1994). Similarly, and in line with EU policies, the telecommunications market was opened up to new actors and the three public telecommunications operators were merged and later privatised. http://bocc.ubi.pt/pag/sousa-helena-liberalisation.html   (645 words)      [A-List] UK corporate state: GATS preparations Ever since 1976 the UK has been used as a European test-bed for = liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation, and all the other evils = that now stand to be foisted upon the rest of the European Union by the = Commission and the various other parts of the EU state apparatus. Here's = news of yet another exciting development in the continuing = disintegration of the British public service sector, and all in = preparation for the much-anticipated bounty to be had from the coming = liberalisation of other EU member states' services. Milkmen now to deliver post with morning pinta RAYMOND DUNCAN The Herald, 24 July 2002 MILLIONS of business letters are to be delivered by milkmen and women = after a leading dairy was given a year-long licence to compete with the = Royal Mail. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/2002-July/019861.html   (638 words)

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