DEVELOPMENT:  EU Seen as Vital to MDGs
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (IPS) - The EU could set the pace towards achieving the  millennium development goals, leading development experts say.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (IPS) - EU development commissioner designate Louis Michel  has promised to âsell the idea of developmentâ across Europe.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 5, 2004 (KUNA) -- The European Union (EU) Friday expressed grave concern over developments in the Sudanese province of Darfur, underlining importance of respecting human rights.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 21  (IPS) - African governments have signed economic  partnership agreements with the European Union ââunder duressââ,  according to Dr Rob Davies, South Africaâs deputy trade and  industry minister.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Belgian foreign minister Louis Michel says his  country's commitment to international cooperation and a wide  network of contacts would ensure success in his new job as the EU  commissioner for development and humanitarian aid.
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EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Monday that foreign state-backed investment funds are a great opportunity although they have to increase transparency on their investments.
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BRUSSELS, May 25 (IPS) - The European Union and West Africa could scarcely  be more different in terms of wealth, yet a pending trade  agreement risks making the disparity even greater.
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Efforts to promote democracy in Myanmar must remain a priority for the international community, European Union special envoy for Myanmar Piero Fassino said here Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 9 (IPS) - The European Union (EU) has imported sugar at  preferential prices from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries  since the 1970s; but, failed sugar reform within the union and  the prospect of unlimited imports from Least Developed Countries  (LDCs) in the near future have put a question mark over this  arrangement.
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BRUSSELS, May 22 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners have likened trade  negotiations between the European Union (EU) and several regions  in Africa to a boxing match between a schoolboy novice and a  heavyweight champion.
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An EU agency has started helping Malta deal with an influx of African migrants - but more resources are needed.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 10 (IPS) - Louis Michel, commissioner designate for  development and humanitarian aid in the new European Commission  will set out his position in the face of some hard questions at  the European Parliament's development committee meeting next  month.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 21 (IPS) - African nations have been reduced to  "begging" in negotiations on their future economic ties  with the European Union (EU) in what has turned into exercise  "assaulting democracy," according to trade unionists and  policy analysts from both north and south.
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The main goal of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from the outset was the European Union (EU). This target drove the party&#39;s policies from day one.
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DEAR readers, the formal signing of EUâs first constitution is a major step forward in the dream to put in place a unified Europe, but the main task before the leaders now is how
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The new European Commissionpresident, Jos Manuel Barroso,has stressed the role of IT in making the 25-nation European Union more economically competitive.
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An impoverished backwater that will drain the EU's resources and flood its labor markets with unskilled jobseekers? Or a dynamic economy whose youthful population will help offset a looming pensions crisis? The economic case for Turkish membership of the European Union is anything but clear cut.