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Trade and Economic relations between the EU and the GCC countries
The EU and the six member countries of the GCC have started negotiations for an FTA long ago, in 1990, suspended since 2008. Meanwhile, GCC countries, suffering from the drop in oil price since mid-2014, have engaged in extremely ambitious economic programmes for the diversification of their economies too dependent on hydrocarbons. Within the institutional economic dialogue set between the EU and the GCC countries, the European parliament offered its diplomacy to organise this conference in order ...
Los regímenes comerciales aplicables a los países en desarrollo
La política comercial y de desarrollo de la Unión está perfilada en la Comunicación de enero de 2012 sobre «Comercio, crecimiento y desarrollo», que se centra en los países más necesitados. El Sistema de Preferencias Generalizadas se ha mantenido para los países menos avanzados (PMA), lo mismo que la iniciativa «Todo menos armas», mientras que el trato preferencial para los países ACP que no están entre los menos avanzados se ha remplazado por acuerdos de asociación económica (AAE) con un componente ...
EU Economic Diplomacy Strategy
The post-World War II order is undergoing profound changes with globalisation and the emergence of new economic powers. The economy has gradually taken over as the main driver of political influence and global now transcend the old national or regional divides. As the EU was emerging as a global economic player, the economic and financial crisis made the need to tap into foreign markets all the greater. The creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS), incorporating the EU delegations, ...