EU, UAE launch free trade talks amid US tariff pressure

Brussels, May 29 (IANS) The European Union (EU) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have formally launched negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA), marking a potential breakthrough towards the EU’s first comprehensive trade deal in the Gulf region, said the European Commission. This initiative also aims to expand further the EU’s global trade […]
EU scrambling to weather US tariff threats

Brussels, Feb 20 (IANS) The EU trade chief is on a business trip in Washington to talk with his US counterpart in hopes of averting a tariff war with the United States. Given that the US fresh tariff measures, if unanswered, will take its toll on the flailing EU economy, the trip of Maros Sefcovic, […]