17 Nov
Chapter News, News

Global trade increasingly obstructed, EU Report says

The tendency to impose trade-restricting measures remains strong among the EU's commercial partners, fuelling continuing uncertainty in the world economy. These are the main findings of the European Commission's annual report on protectionism published today 17 November. "I regret to see that many countries still consider protectionism a valid policy tool. This goes clearly against the G20's commitment to abstain from imposing trade restrictions and to remove existing ones. Protectionism damages global value chains; trade openness is what we need...

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15 Nov
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TTIP: Big Opportunities for Small Business

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in both the United States and European Union stand to gain significantly from the implementation of an ambitious Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership. Using data from a targeted survey and interviews conducted with SME executives on both sides of the Atlantic, the report "TTIP: Big Opportunities for Small Business" cites three core challenges for SMEs as they begin exporting: a lack of clarity on how to get started, problems finding the right clients, and a...

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14 Nov
Member News, News

EU Wide Energy Trading Market Moves A Step Closer

The European Electricity Target Model ("Target Model") is a set of harmonised arrangements for the cross-border trading of wholesale energy and balancing services across Europe. This will impact on all participants in the market and ultimately consumers, and will be implemented on the island of Ireland via the Integrated Single Electricity Market ("I-SEM"). The Single Electricity Market (“SEM”) Committee, comprised of both the Commission for Energy Regulation and Northern Ireland's Utility Regulator, published its final decision on the high level design...

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10 Nov
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Rosetta #CometLanding live coverage

Watch live webcast from ESA mission control, when Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft dispatches the Philae lander to make the first-ever touchdown on a comet. Official hashtag: #CometLanding The mission’s lander, Philae, will be deployed on 12 November at 08:35 GMT/09:35 CET from a distance of 22.5 km from the centre of the comet. It will land about seven hours later, with confirmation expected to arrive at Earth at around 16:00 GMT/17:00 CET. Rosetta launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014....

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06 Nov
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Mario Draghi reports on the outcome of today’s meeting of the Governing Council

Mario Draghi, President of the ECB | Frankfurt am Main, 6 November 2014 Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference. We will now report on the outcome of today’s meeting of the Governing Council, which was also attended by the Commission Vice-President, Mr Dombrovskis. Based on our regular economic and monetary analyses, and in line with our forward guidance, we decided to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged. Following up...

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06 Nov
Member News, News

Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira Gives Fresh Impetus To New York Office And Appoints New Managing Partner

Elena Cuatrecasas moves from Barcelona office to manage the firm’s US office Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira gives fresh impetus to its New York office, and appoints Elena Cuatrecasas as its managing partner there. The partner will move from the Barcelona office to take over from Miguel Ángel Melero, who held the position in New York between 2010 and 2014 and is now returning to the Madrid office. Elena Cuatrecasas will promote the firm’s international expansion from a strategic position. She stated: “Combined...

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06 Nov
Member News, News

Equities Enjoy Modest Post-Election Bounce, Nothin’ Much for CMBS

Forty years ago yesterday, Stevie Wonder had the number one song on the Billboard charts with "You Haven't Done Nothin." (Incidentally, Wonder is playing New York's Madison Square Garden tonight.) If you know which superstar group provided background vocals on the politically charged funk song you will be immediately inducted into the TreppWire Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. While US stocks saw a nice little post-election bump, you could say the CMBS market didn't do nothin' on Wednesday. Trading volume...

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05 Nov
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Ogletree Deakins Named a “Law Firm of the Year” for Fourth Consecutive Year

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that the firm has been named “Law Firm of the Year” in the Labor Law - Management category in the 2015 edition of the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list.This is the fourth consecutive year that Ogletree Deakins has been named a “Law Firm of the Year” and the second consecutive year...

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05 Nov
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Atlantic Council: Interview with Anthony Gardner, US Ambassador to the European Union

TTIP is clearly going to be a prominent issue but it faces serious opposition in some EU countries, especially on the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and other matters such as GMOs. What, if anything, can and should the US do to address that opposition? "The fundamental reason the United States and the EU agreed to pursue the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is to build on what is already a very successful trade and investment relationship – with bilateral...

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04 Nov
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EU gears up for 2030 with more emissions reductions

The Commission, assisted by the European Environment Agency, today releases its annual Progress Report assessing the headway on climate action. According to latest estimates, EU greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 fell by 1.8% compared to 2012 and reached the lowest levels since 1990. So not only is the EU well on track to reach the 2020 target, it is also well on track to overachieve it. The Progress Report also for the first time provides data on the use of...

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