Common Market News
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Not so long ago, if you believe what you read in the papers and see on TV, Mexico was the next Afghanistan. It was poor, lawless, and plagued by drug violence, a failed-state-in-the-making whose problems and people would soon cascade over the border.
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The U.S. is exploring a possible trade and investment agreement with the 15-nation Economic Community of West Africa, acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis said today.
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The five-nation East African Community will declare a common market tomorrow, leading to the creation of a free trade zone over the next few years and ultimately enabling them to forge a political federation.
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Mention the tiny island-nation of Cyprus, and the first thing that comes to my mind is Paul Newman and “Exodus.” In the 1960 film of Leon Uris’s novel, Newman stars as Zionist leader Ari Ben Canaan, who goes to Cyprus in 1947 to rescue Jewish refugees being held in British internment camps.
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In the London mansion where Benjamin Franklin negotiated American independence, British rebels gathered to toast their own fight against the European Union and deliver a warning shot to Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Russia took a step toward a common economic market with neighbors Belarus and Kazakhstan as the three countries’ leaders signed a joint Customs Code in the Kazakh capital Astana.
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France, producer of champagne and burgundy wines, favors keeping a common market organization for wine in the European Union as the bloc reforms its farm policy, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said.
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Zambia’s energy regulator proposed that the government of Africa’s biggest copper producer should import power from the region to stem a shortfall.
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Calling on the U.K. to lead and not leave, European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said Britain is damaging its own economic interests by weighing an unprecedented departure from the bloc.
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Zimbabwe should invite the European Union to observe the country’s March 16 constitutional referendum and add credibility to the result, said Deborah Bronnert, Britain’s ambassador to the southern African nation.
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