EU ROUND UP: EU WOOS RUSSIA OVER FREE TRADE DEAL AS NORWAY AND GULF OPEN TRADE TALKS
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is offering a comprehensive European Union (EU) free-trade deal to Russia, to secure cheaper and more reliable gas and oil supplies. Commission president José Manuel Barroso said the EU will offer this to Russia once it has joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO), maybe this year. Speaking in Helsinki, he said: "We propose moving towards a free trade area, to be completed once Russia accedes to the WTO". Whatever happens in Geneva, Barroso confirmed Brussels wants an EU-Russia summit in November to launch ...
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