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The European Union and partner countries in the Pacific region have finalised arrangements for three regional development aid projects attracting a total of €22-million (A$32.8-million; dcerates.com 10.3.10) from Europe. … Read More »
Can you be in Europe and be forever far from Europe?
The New Year brings the European Union closer to a promised clean-up of the governmental and legal arrangements for overseas territories of member countries — so far not quite in, and not quite outside-of the family. … Read More »
The European Union has announced it will take part in the Pacific Islands Forum to be held at Cairns next month (4-7.8.09). … Read More »
European and South-east Asian Ministers meeting in Cambodia (27-29.5.09) are continuing with a definite push for closer “East-West” relations, embarked on during the past month.
At an earlier high-level gathering in Hanoi, the two sides condemned the nuclear test in North Korea – while going ahead with a full agenda on climate change and development. … Read More »
The EU has called on the Fijian armed forces need to reconsider the latest move against legal authority; it says it regrets that an agreement on restoring aid, and a return to democracy, will now fail. … Read More »
The “G20” economic summit in London (3.4.09) has signaled a change in the way world business activity is to be managed – in its response to the economic crisis.
Lee Duffield sets out to make sense of the claims about how a dinner meeting and set-piece round table by 20 heads of government might make a great difference. … Read More »
The Brazilian President - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – who has blamed the financial and economic crisis on the machinations of people with “blond hair and blue eyes” — has signed on to cooperate with the Europeans and others, at this week’s meeting of the G20 in London. … Read More »