E.U. Signals Tough World Trade Policy A report in the New York Times By JAMES KANTER Published: November 9, 2010 BRUSSELS — The European Union signaled on Tuesday that it would pursue a more aggressive trade policy, including bringing more cases to the World Trade Organization and negotiating more bilateral deals with countries like India [...]
Trade minister to meet European parliament committee, reports Eyewitness News. 27 October 2010 A delegation from the European parliament’s Committee on International Trade is visiting South Africa. Their leader Robert Sturdy said they will meet a range of people, including Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies. Mr Sturdy is the rapporteur on economic partnership agreements [...]
This is Robert’s latest International Trade newsletter 14 October 2010
8 October 2010 Euro-MP Robert Sturdy has welcomed plans to simplify EU research funding from 2013 following a review of its present overbearing bureaucratic practice. A budget of around €51 billion is available from the EU for vital research projects, ranging from crop science to energy saving technologies. Mr Sturdy said the simplification of funding [...]
8 October 2010 Eastern Region MEP Robert Sturdy today praised International Border Agency officers based at a leading London station after learning about their work to protect UK citizens during a fact finding visit. Mr Sturdy, the Conservative’s EP International Trade spokesman, has long wanted to see for himself the methods used to protect our [...]
Brussels 7 October 2010. Conservative International Trade Spokesman in Europe, Robert Sturdy MEP, and Chairman of the Friends of Pakistan group, Sajjad Karim, today welcomed a European Commission announcement that it is seeking to temporarily suspend import duties on Pakistani goods entering the EU. The European Commission is making this move in a bid to [...]
Strasbourg report, September 2010 How could the French make the ridiculous travelling circus to Strasbourg any less appealing? Yep, you guessed it, the have put the whole of the French transport system on strike – and on the final day of the plenary session no less! Isn’t that nice of them? I won’t dwell on [...]
Robert Sturdy is delighted to host a visit by nine-year-old Alexia Sloane to the European Parliament in the next few months. Alexia, who is blind, has achieved two A* grades in language GCSCEs and won a Young Achiever of the Year award from a Cambridge News contest. In the video, Robert praises Alexia’s outstanding talent [...]
16 September 2010 Korea Free Trade Agreement adopted by EU governments The adoption today of the EU’s Free Trade Agreement with South Korea will create thousands of jobs and add billions of Euros to both sides’ economies, Robert Sturdy MEP, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the agreement, said today. Italy today decided to drop its [...]
15th September 2010 Airbus and Boeing: time for talks to replace recriminations The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) expected rebuke of Boeing today should bring about a new spirit of cooperation between Airbus and the American manufacturer, instead of yet more Transatlantic recriminations, Robert Sturdy MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists group trade spokesman in the European [...]
