Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The UAE participated in the first trade and investment dialogue between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU), which concluded at the headquarters of the Council’s General Secretariat at Saudi Capital of Riyadh. The Ministry of Economy organized the UAE delegation which was headed by Mohammed Nasser Hamdan Al Zaabi, Director of …

Bloomberg Oman plans to sell $2 billion of Islamic bonds this month as it seeks to trim a large budget deficit caused by lower oil revenue, Finance Minister Darwish Al Balushi said. The crude exporter’s budget deficit will reach 12 percent of economic output this year and it will continue to narrow in the coming years, Al Balushi said in …

Bloomberg European governments preparing for a looming round of major summits with Donald Trump are resigned to the fact that they will just have to learn to deal with a US president whom they see as increasingly erratic. As Donald Trump’s White House struggles to extricate itself from an almost daily cycle of controversy, government officials in three European capitals …