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27
Feb
The European Union is an Important Trade and Investment Partner for New York and is New York’s biggest source of foreign investment.
Check out more on the EU's trade in the U.S. with the interactive map HERE
Compliments of the Delegation of the EU in the US
27
Feb
Brussels, 27 February 2019
European Semester 2019: Winter Package explained. What does today's package include?
Today, the Commission publishes:
28 Country Reports, including in-depth reviews (IDRs) for 13 countries identified in the Alert Mechanism Report of November 2018
A Communication on the main findings of the Country Reports including a new categorisation of countries under the Macroeconomic
Imbalances Procedure (MIP)
An Opinion on the 2019 Draft Budgetary Plan (DBP) of Slovenia
The second Enhanced Surveillance Report for Greece
The Annual Work Programme...
26
Feb
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, announced today that he was prepared to back a second referendum on Brexit. A People’s Vote would give Britons a chance to state their views with far greater knowledge than they had at the time of the 2016 referendum, but the question of what should be on the ballot would itself be highly divisive. Agreeing on the form a referendum should take would do nothing to calm Brexit tensions.
Compliments of The...
25
Feb
By NAHAL TOOSI
If British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt could offer some advice to Donald Trump — advice he knew the U.S. president would actually take — he’d tell him to take advantage of international alliances, because “America has a lot of friends all over the world that share American values.”
It’s advice that comes as Britain, on the verge of leaving the European Union, hopes to maintain the critical security and economic partnership it has long had with the United...
22
Feb
By Guy Verhofstadt
Since the end of the World War II, Western nations have shared the belief that international trade was a virtue. While progress has too often been lethargic, in the decades since, the United States and European nations have worked together to reduce barriers to trade.
This went hand in hand with a special bond between our two continents -- culturally, militarily, as a broad alliance of free nations.
Together, progress has been achieved in the form of the institutions...
22
Feb
By The Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania — A European Union official says "there is full support" from member states to hit back if U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on cars and car parts.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said EU trade ministers had discussed the bloc's trading relationship with Washington during an informal meeting Friday in Bucharest.
She said there were concerns about "certain aspects of the trade policy being pursued by the current U.S. administration."
Trump says the U.S. is mulling tariffs...
22
Feb
Press Release 2/15/2019
High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini met today with the US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo.
They underlined the importance of transatlantic cooperation between the European Union and the United States on a wide range of foreign policy issues, including the current work towards a peaceful and democratic transition in Venezuela, the need to ensure a political transition in Syria, support to peace in Afghanistan and to denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula ahead of the upcoming US-DPRK summit. They...
22
Feb
An economic analysis by the European Commission shows that a targeted EU-US agreement eliminating tariffs on industrial goods would increase EU exports to the US by 8% and US exports to the EU by 9% by 2033. This corresponds to additional gains of €27 billion and €26 billion in EU and US exports respectively.
The European Commission has today submitted to the European Parliament and EU Member States an economic analysis on the benefits for EU and US producers and...
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