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DUBAI / WAM Two-way trade between GCC countries and the European Union has exceeded EUR143 billion ($175.87 billion) in recent years, according to a senior official of the European Union visiting the UAE to attend the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) taking place in Dubai from April 9 to 11. This confirms that the European Union is the largest trading partner ...

Bloomberg The Middle East is emerging as a potential beneficiary of the brewing trade war between the US and China as the Asian nation strikes back with retaliatory tariffs on American petrochemical products. If China goes ahead with its proposal to slap a 25 percent tariff on polyethylene and liquid propane, which were among 106 American goods targeted, buyers in ...

DUBAI / WAM With the aim of further strengthening the existing partnership and collab-orating in sustainable agriculture and development, the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and the Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence (DCCE), joined forces on Sunday to work together on sustainability projects. Through this partnership, both organisations agreed to cooperate in technical research, the sharing of knowledge, capacity ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The total value of the top 10 active projects linked to Expo 2020 has exceeded $32.7 billion (AED120 billion) as of March 31, according to BNC Network, the largest project intelligence provider in the MENA region. There are various high value projects across different sectors that are being developed in the UAE which will impact or ...

Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has issued a law on social security in the Emirate of Sharjah, setting the retirement age at 55 years for females and 60 years for males. Law No. 5 of 2018 stipulates that the age of the insured shall not be ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), will organise a lecture entitled ‘The Georgia-UAE Partnership: Creating a Shared Future in an Inconsistent World’, on April 10, at the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Hall at the ECSSR headquarters in Abu Dhabi. The lecture, which will be delivered by President Giorgi Margvelashvili of Georgia, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, affirmed that meeting the needs of the society, particularly social welfare and social services, is essential for the stability of societies and peoples. His Highness also emphasised that paying attention to citizens’ demands is one of ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for development aid, has extended a concessionary loan of AED110 million ($30 million) to the Government of Mali to support its National Social Housing Programme. HE Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, Director General of ADFD, and HE Dr Boubou Cisse, Malian Minister of Economy and Finance, ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The UAE, the second biggest Arab economy, is leading the Arab World in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In 2016, the UAE attracted 29 percent of the total FDI inflow in to the Arab World, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, UAE Minister of Economy, told the media in an interview ahead of the Annual Investment ...

DUBAI / WAM The Department of Economic Development (DED), in Dubai witnessed increasing business registration and licencing activities during the month of March 2018, reaffirming the emirate’s position as a preferred place for business start-ups and expansions. According to the ‘Business Map’ digital platform of DED, more than 26,410 business registration and licencing (BRL), transactions were completed in March, compared ...