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What are some roadblocks preventing a free trade agreement between the EU and the US?
First you can see the lengthly TTIP negotiations as proof that the US and the EU were definitely trying to get a free trade agreement. Here are a few points that made getting a free trade agreement ...
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What are some roadblocks preventing a free trade agreement between the EU and the US?
Part of the answer was public sentiment. A few currents of public opinion converged here:
The European political left is traditionally anti-American, and much of the moderate populace is America-...
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What are some roadblocks preventing a free trade agreement between the EU and the US?
There were a lot of stumbling blocks and hurdles with TTIP, but here are two major ones:
In 2016, the United States elected a President who ran on a platform of Isolationism and Protectionism, and had ...
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Is there a reason why the EU doesn't pursue a FTA with each individual ASEAN country instead of a region-region agreement?
It's not an either-or. ASEAN doesn't prevent members from negotiating FTAs on their own. For example Vietnam is a member of ASEAN but they also have an FTA with the EU.
In fact the EU itself tells the ...
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Why don't most European countries apply to regional trade pacts outside of Europe like the RCEP and the CPTPP?
Is there a reason for so few countries in Europe wanting to join these trade pacts?
Because most of them are already in the largest fully integrated trade pact in the world, the European Union.
The ...
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Has the EU, the UN, or even some Muslim countries proposed to fund or construct any bomb shelters for civilians in Gaza?
They are never going to fund making bomb shelters, for a simple reason: Hamas Tunnels. Hamas has an incredibly extensive tunnel system, and the stuff you'd used to create a bomb shelter is what you'd ...
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Has the EU, the UN, or even some Muslim countries proposed to fund or construct any bomb shelters for civilians in Gaza?
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Has the EU, the UN, or even some Muslim countries proposed to fund or construct any bomb shelters for civilians in Gaza?
Israel prohibits the importation of materials they deem as duel use (...
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