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ECB board member Jürgen Stark is a straight-talking fiscal and monetary hardliner. These must be trying times for Jürgen Stark. A champion of economic discipline,...

Why restoring competitiveness and creating new jobs will be so hard for advanced economies. Since the end of the Second World War, the global economy's trade and financial...

The economic crisis has not produced a wave of protectionism. What can done now to advance trade? Meetings of G20 leaders regularly affirm the importance of maintaining and...

Were ‘unfair' trade preferences at the heart of the banana war? No. Preferences are central to international trade with developing countries and are becoming more refined....

Problems with the emissions trading scheme. In the latest defence of his support for trade-restrictive carbon measures (“Tackling threats by finding room for...

To curb climate change, we need to restrict free-riding. In the latest letter in our exchange on the role of trade measures in international efforts to curb climate change...

Are trade restrictions on countries that fail to take measures to reduce pollution helpful or ineffective? The continuation of a debate. In his letter published earlier...

A former senior trade official reviews what was the EU's longest-running trade dispute. You reported that a final agreement has been reached between the EU and its banana...

Developing countries have the right to renegotiate interim economic partnership deals (EPAs) reached with the EU, according to the European Parliament's legal service. The...

Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has begun talks with the Chinese government aimed at setting up a collaborative system for controlling imports of textiles into the EU....

The EU is preparing for further confrontation with the US government over anti-dumping duties imposed on sensitive industrial imports including steel and aluminium. European...

In many of the areas of policy in which the EU operates collectively, as opposed to through the individual member states, it has acquired the power to do so over time. But...

Since the 1960s Africa has been diverging from other developing regions at an accelerating rate, a trend which seems certain to generate unmanageable social pressures. That...

The summit meeting between the EU and India in Helsinki next week (13 October) will start to fulfil the European Parliament's wish that Europe ceases to be so obsessed with...

With 148 members, each with equal voting rights, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is both democratic and unwieldy. Officials from India boast about how they alone, a single...

France is once again at the forefront of the fight for national culture. President Jacques Chirac has said that France will be very vigilant during the negotiations on the...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has until the end of May to appoint a successor to Thailand's Supachai Panitchpakdi, whose mandate as director-general expires on 1...

IT IS tempting to call him Putin's poodle. As Russia's ambassador to the European Union, Mikhail Fradkov is essentially the mouthpiece of President Vladimir Putin in...

FORMER EU Commissioner Peter Sutherland has come under fire for asking Romano Prodi to help a woman secure employment as “a favour”. This week European Voice received a...

LAST December a French firm took control of one of Hollywood's leading film studios, an event which on the face of it should have radically changed the nature of European...