The employment and social situation in the EU remained critical in the fourth quarter of 2012 with employment receding overall and unemployment rising further, while households' financial situation remained serious according to the European ...
Tags: EU-27, Employment, Social Situation
The General Secretariat of Iraq’s Council of Ministers has ruled out the replacement of the currency or cancellation of three zeros “at this stage”, and it is seeking to raise the value of the dinar against the dollar. ...
Tags: Iraq, Dinar, General Secretariat
Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq upstream petroleum witnessed three unprecedented interrelated developments post-2003: A grand opening to FDI;offering ...
Tags: Frameworks, Upstream Petroleum, Iraq
In its Europe News Issue published on January 22, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) focused on the decision reached between the Japanese government and the European Commission on November 29 to start negotiations on the ...
Iraq’s Department of Cabinet Affairs has announced that the Council of Ministers issued 472 decisions during 2012, 366 of them being what they described as “executive decisions”. These decisions included 36 regarding ...
Reuters reported that government of Guinea on Friday cleared a project by state owned China Power Investment Corp to invest nearly$6 billion in an alumina refinery in Boffa,some 120 km(75 miles)west of the capital. The project for the ...
Tags: power, China, investment, environment
His Excellency Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki attended the opening session of the Arab Council of Ministers of Housing and Construction in its 29th session in Baghdad, attended by Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al-Mutlaq, Foreign Minister ...
Tags: conferences, Ministers, Reconstruction Conference, Metallurgy
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a new patent law to provide one regulation and one court to cover inventions across the European Union (EU). Currently EU citizens can either apply for a national patent in their own country ...
Tags: European Parliament, national patent, unitary patent, patent system
Steps are being taken to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the area of textiles and clothing between India and Sri Lanka, Mr. Anand Sharma, India's Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles, informed Sri Lanka's ...
Tags: MoU, cooperation, textiles, clothing, MoU deal
Drafted and adopted by a referendum in 2005, the Iraqi constitution outlines the structure of the federal government and stipulates what bodies should form its legislative, executive and judicial branches. The legislative branch is to ...
The EU Council of Ministers gave the green light, on 24 September, to a draft regulation amending existing energy labelling of electrical lamps for domestic use (apart from directional lamps) and extending these new provisions to ...
Tags: electrical lamps, Label design for lamps, energy labelling
By the 12th October the European Union is expected to confirm the continuation of anti-dumping measures, first applied in early 2009, on certain steel fasteners from the People's Republic of China but to reduce the levels of tariffs ...
Tags: Market View, Fasteners
The European Union is to forge ahead with a change to copyright law that will enable organisations to digitise and publish"orphaned"works.The aim of the directive is to overcome the bar to use of copyrighted works in which the copyright ...
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