Tag Archives: Trade relations

Alaa Thabet – Ahram Online During his official visit to Egypt, Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, spoke to Al-Ahram’s editor-in-chief on a host of issues including fostering economic and political cooperation between the two countries, strengthening Spanish-Egyptian strategic partnership in the Mediterranean region, providing coronavirus vaccines to Egypt, and efforts to …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online Christian Berger, the European Union (EU) delegation’s Ambassador to Egypt, spoke to Ahram Online AT the second ministerial conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), which kicked off in Cairo on Monday. “Egypt is the largest investment market for the EU in Africa and …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online “The United Kingdom (UK) will establish a new finance facility, located in Egypt, aiming to reinforce trade ties between the two countries, particularly in the exports sector”, said Emma Wade-Smith, the UK’s Trade Commissioner for Africa, on Tuesday. Wade-Smith made her statements during a virtual …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online On 5 December, Egypt and the UK inked an agreement to strengthen their political and trade ties. “The agreement, taking effect on January, will allow British businesses and consumers to benefit from continued preferential access to the market after the end of the transitional period …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online On 5 October, the UK-based Egyptian-British Chamber of Commerce (EBCC) launched the online B2B platform Trade Accelerator, which aims at bringing the professional community of both countries together in one digital space to make it easier for companies in the UK and Egypt to access …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online The UK-based Egyptian-British Chamber of Commerce (EBCC) has launched the online B2B platform ‘Trade Accelerator’. It aims to bring the professional community of both countries together in one digital space, to allow companies in the UK and Egypt to access curated information and find trustworthy …

London – Times of Egypt: In an exclusive interview with Times of Egypt, Egyptian Ambassador Tarek Adel discussed the British position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). “We inform the British side of all developments in the GERD negotiations”, he said. He added “Britain knows Egypt’s stance towards the …

In talking about their future relationship with the UK and EU leaders may want to mind their language. Malcolm Fairbrother   Though the British premier, Boris Johnson, says he ‘got Brexit done’ last month, the United Kingdom’s future economic relationship with the European Union remains undefined. Officials are ramping up …

Paul Mason explains how, even after the UK has technically left the EU, ‘Brexit’ has escalated into a culture war over immigration. Paul Mason   Two million people saw it live and at least six million have watched it on ‘social media’: last week on the BBC’s prime-time political show, Question …

Freeports may epitomise the Brexiters’ ‘global Britain’ but the UK economy performs too poorly for these to be more than luxury entrepôts. Oddný Helgadóttir   British prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been promoting freeports as a way forward for post-Brexit Britain since he first staked his claim to lead the …