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07
Feb
Growth rates for the euro area and the EU beat expectations last year as the transition from economic recovery to expansion continues. The euro area and EU economies are both estimated to have grown by 2.4% in 2017, the fastest pace in a decade.
This robust performance is set to continue in 2018 and 2019 with growth of 2.3% and 2.0% respectively in both the euro area and EU.
Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of...
30
May
Speech by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström | Brussels, 29 May 2017 | Civil Society Dialogue
It's my pleasure to be here with you today. I'm just going to give you a little overview of where we are on trade policy, and then to hear your questions: I want to have a dialogue.
Trade and globalisation are issues very much debated these days. That is a good thing. It shows that many people care and want to be involved. It also...
14
Apr
Europe Is Not Only Still a Superpower: it's going to remain one for decades to come.
By Andrew Moravcsik | Foreign Policy Magazine | April 13, 2017
Sixty years after the Treaty of Rome, many view Europe as a spent force in global politics. Conventional wisdom states that world politics today is unipolar, with the United States as the sole superpower. Or perhaps it is multipolar, with China, India, and the rest rising to challenge Western powers. Either way, Europe’s role...
27
Feb
When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, Western Europe accounted for about 20% of gross world product. Five centuries later, it is still around 20-25% of world GDP, but its North American daughter has surged to another 25%. The “West”, as we loosely call it, has thus 10% of the world’s population and almost 50% of its economic wealth, quite an achievement from the abject poverty of serfdom Europe and tribal North America. The common ties between...
22
Feb
The European Commission today publishes its annual analysis of the economic and social situation in the Member States, including an assessment of remaining imbalances.
It also publishes a report on the implementation of the Fiscal Compact, a report analysing the debt situation in Italy and a report, together with a proposal to the Council for a fine, on a case of misrepresentation of statistics in Austria.
Member States are making headway in implementing the individual policy guidance they received last year...
09
Feb
By Jeremiah Baronberg Previously published on bluestarstrategies.com see here
During the recent U.S. presidential campaign, Donald Trump made reshaping America’s involvement in international economic affairs a centerpiece of his platform. As a candidate, he specifically called out international trade—from abandoned factories to lost jobs and competitive wages—as a locus for many of the economic and societal challenges facing the country. Since being elected president, Mr. Trump has gone so far as to threaten to "tear up" or renegotiate existing U.S. free...
08
Feb
In a recent interview with Fox Business, David O'Sullivan, EU Ambassador to the United States, talks trade policies, Brexit, NATO, and the refugee crisis in Europe. Watch the interview.
Compliments of Fox Business
07
Feb
By Karen Tramontano, opinion contributor, previously published at thehill.com see here
During the presidential campaign and in the months after the election, Donald Trump Team Trump should get in the union-busting business Green Party blasts Dems on DeVos confirmation Why the Iranian people support a tougher policy toward Tehran MORE made clear his intention to reshape America’s approach to international economic affairs. This included renegotiating or withdrawing the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the 1994 pact signed...
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