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China overtakes US as EU’s biggest trading partner
BRUSSELS: China last year overtook the United States as the EU’s biggest trading partner, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. Britain meanwhile, which is no longer part of…
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U.S. wine importers are now paying the price for Trump administration’s trade tiff with European Union
Wine vendors battling to survive the coronavirus pandemic are now also getting slammed by the U.S.’s fight with the European Union over aircraft subsidies. Mom-and-pop wine importers are facing hundreds…
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France: EIB provides €50 million to support Forsee Power’s growth
The EIB is providing €50 million to Forsee Power to help create a European battery champion. This second loan – following an initial €20 million granted in late 2017 under the Juncker…
Europe
UK Foreign Secretary Raab Takes Long-Term Brexit View as EU Erects Obstacles to Trade
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has encouraged businesses hit by post-Brexit red tape to take an optimistic "10-year view" of Brexit. Interviewed by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Raab insisted the…
Europe
EU to fast-track jabs against virus variants
BERLIN: The European Union has agreed to fast-track approvals of vaccines updated to target coronavirus variants, the bloc’s health commissioner said Sunday, following criticism of the EU’s sluggish vaccine drive.…
Europe
France: OSE Immunotherapeutics enters a loan agreement of up to €25 million with the EIB
This loan will further support the progress and expansion of OSE Immunotherapeutics’ lead clinical development programs in diseases with high unmet medical needs, Divided into three tranches including two tranches…
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Qatar, UN & EU Team Up to Build Gas Line to Gaza from Israel
Photo Credit: Doha Information Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar Qatari Envoy Mohammed al-Emadi Although Qatar has not yet signed on to the Abraham Accords with Israel, the Gulf nation…
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Aspen’s offer to cut prices of cancer drugs allows it to avoid EU fine
Brussels — Aspen Pharmacare warded off a possible hefty EU antitrust fine after regulators accepted the pharmaceutical company’s offer to cut cancer drug prices in Europe by about two-thirds, in…
Europe
Western Sahara: Senior Belgian Politicians Call on EU to Support Morocco’s Position
Rabat – Two senior Belgian politicians are calling on the European Union to support Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara. Louis Michel, the former Belgium’s Foreign Minister and Jacques Brotchi,…
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Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski defy the EU even as their countries profit from it
Dozens of newspapers, TV stations and websites blank or black: This was what the national strike of private media in Poland protesting a sudden and crippling government tax on advertising looked like…