Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isolda Agazzi GENEVA, Oct 6, 2010 (IPS) – The EU is due to adopt a simplified set of rules of origins for developing countries exports. Particular relaxations are foreseen for the least developed countries (LDCs), but the rules may mainly profit the strongest of them. In today’s [...]
BALKANS: Kosovo Talks Bring Hope
September 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Sep 24, 2010 (IPS) – Serbia has lost all its military and legal battles over Kosovo, but there is hope that the internationally sponsored talks between Belgrade and Pristina in October may bring some normalisation in relations between Serbia and its breakaway [...]
Asia and Europe – The Twain Must Meet
September 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Asia and Europe – The Twain Must Meet By Shada Islam* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BRUSSELS (IDN) – The Asia-Europe meeting (ASEM) on October 4-5 will be the biggest international gathering in Brussels, bringing together 48 Asian and European countries, joined by senior European Union officials and the secretary general [...]
Rights Group Presses EU to Act on Burma
August 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BRUSSELS (IDN) – Human Rights Watch has urged foreign ministers of the 27-nation European Union to publicly support an international Commission of Inquiry for Burma, stressing that it is not enough to simply continue to document and publish reports on the rights situation [...]
Canada Coming With Worse Than Oil
July 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jul 19, 2010 (IPS) – Fears of a trade dispute with Canada have made European Union officials reluctant to categorise tar sands from North America as a more polluting fuel than conventional petrol. Officials working for the EU’s executive, the European Commission, are considering [...]
EU: This Big Brother Is in the U.S.
July 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jul 6, 2010 (IPS) – Private information on innocent citizens will be handed over to U.S. law enforcement authorities under an agreement slated for approval by the European Parliament this week. In February, members of the Parliament (MEPs) rejected a plan to allow data [...]
EU Using Soft Power in Zimbabwe
July 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BRUSSELS (IDN) – Top-ranking leaders of the European Commission have told Zimbabwe that they expect "further concrete progress" and "clear signs of improved political environment", given which the country might receive additional money. The 27-nation European Union (EU) has provided the landlocked country [...]
‘Save Us From These Bankers, Fast’
July 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jul 5, 2010 (IPS) – Besieged by bankers opposed to regulation of their sector, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have taken an unusual step. A cross-party alliance has called for an international campaigning organisation to concentrate on remedying the flaws of the financial [...]
Name Aid Offenders but Do Not Blame Them
June 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BRUSSELS (IDN) – The EU Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and the development NGOs are in agreement that the European Union Member States are missing their aid targets. Though this is not the only point on which they see eye to eye, they are not [...]
ECONOMY-GREECE: Convulsions Follow EU Shock Therapy
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 6 (IPS) – The firebombing of a bank by demonstrators protesting against severe austerity measures, which killed two women and a man, appears to Greeks as a sign of social deterioration arising from their country’s financial crisis. ”I wonder if someone will ever think that [...]
