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Are journeys abroad by delegations of MEPs worth the expense? The European Parliament's budgetary control committee is looking at ways to cut the costs of such travel and...

The World Bank gives its view of Latin America's efforts to curb climate change and of what it needs. What happens at the global summit on climate change in Copenhagen is of...

Trade deals could make it harder to import generic medicines. Developing countries will find it harder to import cheap generic drugs because of trade deals with the EU,...

The Commission argues that free-trade agreements can advance regional integration.

Two states refuse to sign comprehensive trade-liberalisation agreement that critics argue could harm the region's economies. The EU today signed a long-discussed and...

We press over-hard for trade, while shamefully soft-pedalling on our aid commitments. In New York last week, the UN debate on the Millennium Development Goals exposed the...

Liberalisation of services and investment are contentious. Peter Mandelson, the EU's trade commissioner, might have to renegotiate the Union's draft economic partnership...

Caribbean victims of Hurricane Gustav to receive €2 million from EU. The European Commission has pledged to provide €2 million in humanitarian aid for...

Limited progress on finalising deals; fears over effect on intra-regional trade. The European Commission's strategy of securing economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with...

Meeting with African, Caribbean and Pacific states ends with fresh pledge and a political first. A Council of Ministers from the EU and from the African, Caribbean and...

Agenda topped by biofuels and climate change risks being undermined by personalities and indifference. Regional disputes and personality clashes are threatening to...

The European Commission is hopeful that few developing countries will have tariffs imposed on their exports to the EU from 1 January, when the preferential trading system...

Concerns are mounting over the economic fate of a number of developing countries which have yet to sign deals with the EU to secure access for their agricultural products...

The European Commission will sign economic development deals with some African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, with other states being left out. The Portuguese...

Member states will urge the European Commission to allow developing countries to export a maximum of products to the EU in the absence of the Economic Partnership Agreements...

It will soon become apparent which of the six regions currently negotiating controversial Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU are to meet the deadline of the end of...

Two ambassadors from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states have warned that their countries will look elsewhere for trading partners if the EU continues to ignore...

Cities are vying for the right to put themselves in the global shop-window, says Ian Mundell. Polish Culture Minister Kazimierz Ujazdowski was in Brussels last week to...

East and central African countries are warning that they are not prepared to continue negotiations with the European Commission aimed at establishing new Economic Partnership...

The EU provides 40% of all development aid received by Latin America and the Caribbean, giving the Union considerable clout in the fight against poverty in the region. Some...