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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10742

1 December 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 28
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade
Talks with Morocco and Tunisia on near horizon

Brussels, 30/11/2012 (Agence Europe) -Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has announced that free-trade negotiations will be opened in the course of the next few months with two of the four Arab partners identified in the Mediterranean region.

De Gucht briefed EU trade ministers meeting in Brussels on 29 November of progress in preparations for free-trade negotiations with four of the Arab countries in the Euro-Mediterranean area - Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia.

In the immediate...

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(AE) MIDDLE EAST: EU calls for resumption of talks
(AE) NEIGHBOURHOOD: Civil society to get €45.3 million
(AE) TAJIKSTAN:
(AE) TRADE: Talks with Morocco and Tunisia on near horizon
(AE) TRADE: France lays down its conditions for free-trade with Japan
(AE) TRADE: Calls at WTO for Ukraine to end tariff review
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