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Enhanced and more focused cooperation between the European Union (EU) and member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has become a priority for the EU, with a view to jointly addressing a series of global and regional challenges. Building on strong ties established over decades of a close trading and investment relationship, the EU is now seeking to put relations on a more secure footing, with new impetus and a much broader scope. A joint communication on a strategic partnership with the ...

Africa-EU trade relations have a longstanding tradition. The EU remains the biggest trading and investment partner for most African countries, especially for those implementing Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) with the EU. The workshop shall provide a data-based discussion of the impact of current EPAs on economic regional development (and recent trends on intraregional economic integration in Africa) as well as an overview of EU's sustainable investment facilitation agreements negotiated with ...

Podczas drugiej czerwcowej sesji plenarnej Parlament Europejski ma omówić sposoby wspierania etycznych i zrównoważonych stosunków handlowych z krajami afrykańskimi w kontekście globalnych wyzwań spotęgowanych pandemią koronawirusa i wojną Rosji z Ukrainą.

The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is the main tool for bringing Ukraine and the EU closer together: it promotes deeper political ties, stronger economic links and the respect for common values. The Agreement was negotiated between 2007 and 2011, signed in 2014, and entered into force on 1 September 2017 after unanimous ratification by EU Member States. The Association Agreement includes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between the EU and Ukraine that has been provisionally applied ...

Up until Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU and Russia were important trade partners trading in a wide variety of goods, including agri-food products. Russia was the fifth largest importer of EU goods in 2020, despite the disruption of trade relations caused by the first Ukraine crisis in 2014. Furthermore, Russia is a major global exporter of several commodities, including sunflower oil, wheat and barley.

Od czasu przemian politycznych, które rozpoczęły się w latach 80. ubiegłego wieku, Tajwan stał się dynamiczną demokracją i dołączył do grona krajów o wysokim dochodzie. Stosunki gospodarcze między UE a Tajwanem kwitną, o czym świadczy fakt, że UE jest najważniejszym źródłem bezpośrednich inwestycji zagranicznych na Tajwanie. Parlament Europejski wielokrotnie wzywał UE do podjęcia pierwszych kroków w kierunku zawarcia dwustronnej umowy inwestycyjnej. Podczas drugiej październikowej sesji plenarnej ...

In December 2020, the European Commission proposed the creation of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), to facilitate trade, expand investment, develop compatible standards, boost innovation and strengthen the partners' technological and industrial leadership. The TTC also aims to 'lead values-based digital transformation'. Meanwhile, trade between the EU and US continues and is as important as ever, manifested in the fact that, together, they form the largest bilateral economic relationship ...

This in-depth analysis summarizes the main effects of the Customs Union (CU) on EU-Turkey trade and the economic situation in Turkey. Whereas the CU offers Turkey several economic benefits, it also implies some downsides, in particular asymmetric tariffs in relation to third countries. Against the background of the dynamic development of EU-Turkey relations, the authors assess the impact of four different options for developing EU-Turkey economic and trade relations: (i) Continuation of the current ...

The transatlantic relationship has been witnessing a significant injection of renewed enthusiasm and policy activity since Joe Biden became President of the United States in January 2021. This paper focuses on three important issues on the rapidly evolving transatlantic policy agenda, exploring their potential for generating, in effect, new 'common global goods' during the Biden presidency. First, it looks at pathways towards developing some kind of 'transatlantic green deal', taking climate action ...

Układ o stowarzyszeniu stanowi główną podstawę dla stosunków między UE a Ukrainą oraz promuje współpracę gospodarczą i polityczną, a także poszanowanie wspólnych wartości. Podczas sesji plenarnej w lutym Parlament Europejski ma omówić sprawozdanie z własnej inicjatywy w sprawie wdrożenia tego układu.