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BRUSSELS: Washing­ton and the EU will pledge joint action to tackle concerns focused on China about non-market practices and coordinate their export controls on semiconductors and other goods at a meeting this month, a draft statement showed. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Euro­pean Commission Vice-President Margrethe Ves­ta­­ger and other senior officials are due to meet for the fourth edition …

TEHRAN: The European Union and United States said on Tuesday they were studying Iran’s response to a “final” draft agreement on reviving a 2015 nuclear accord with major powers the EU presented at talks in Vienna. The US had already said that it was informing EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell of its response to the text he submitted on …

BRUSSELS: The European Union and India on Friday relaunched negotiations to forge a free trade agreement, with the aim of completing talks by the end of 2023. “This partnership will become a defining moment for world trade in the 21st century,” Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal told a news conference. The two sides previously launched talks in 2007, but they …

The European Union (EU) and India agreed on Monday to set up a trade and technology council to step up cooperation as the bloc’s chief held talks with officials in New Delhi who have seen a flurry of top visits since the start of the Ukraine war. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is on a two-day trip to …

BRUSSELS: The European Union and Britain launched parallel competition probes on Friday into whether Facebook uses data from advertisers to unfairly dominate the online classified market. The US social media behemoth sells classified advertising on its Marketplace service, but also gathers data from commercial advertising that may give it an unfair advantage _ a charge the firm declared “without merit”. …

BRUSSELS: Another round of trade discussions between the European Union and the UK ended Friday and once again there were no signs of progress ahead of a looming deadline on whether a transition arrangement can be extended. Following four days of video discussions because of the coronavirus pandemic, the two sides remained at loggerheads on a number of issues, including …

HANOI: Vietnam and the European Union signed a free trade agreement on Sunday, opening opportunities to further boost trade between the euro bloc and one of Southeast Asia’s biggest manufacturing nations. The agreement, which was signed by European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom and Vietnamese Trade Minister Tran Tuan Anh in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, will eliminate almost all tariffs for …

DINARD: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Friday said neither Britain nor other European Union member states wanted a no-deal Brexit and that economies in the bloc were not growing fast enough to stave off a recession in such an event. “A no-deal outcome is bad for the UK. It’s also very bad for the European Union,” Hunt said at …

PARIS: A number of countries have banned Boeing´s 737 MAX 8 medium-haul workhorse jet from their airspace in response to the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 people on board. Several individual airlines have grounded their B-737 MAX 8 aircraft but many others are continuing to fly the plane pending an investigation into the crash and possible guidance from …