Docuticker (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Panorama on Tourism Source: Eurostat The Panorama is the third edition of this publication on tourism. It provides an overview on structural aspects of tourism in Europe and its evolution since 2000 including the EU Member States, Candidate and EFTA countries. The publication consists of tables, graphs and maps combined with an analytical text. Main features [...]
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency announced Friday that about 4000 Bulgarian citizens had bank accounts in the EU and EFTA, or owned securities and bonds, or had investments managed by European financial institutions. The Agency received this information from the taxing administrations of the mem...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association (EFTA) today announced the election of Raymond T. Crosier of Online Resources Corp. as its
guetali sadc (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Tuesday confirmed the operation of the landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) and the European Free Trade Association (Efta) from May 1, 2008. Sacu comprises Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, while the Efta incorporates Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. The...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
EFTA & Hong Kong Keen On FTA With Malaysia, Says Muhyiddin GENEVA, July 25 (Bernama) -- The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and Hong Kong are keen ...
New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Implementation of landmark SACU-EFTA Free Trade Agreement 22 July 2008 This communiqu� serves to confirm the operationalisation of the landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), comprising Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, on 1...
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
On 24 October a request was made for an Advisory Opinion from the EFTA Court by a Norwegian court, the Follo tingrett in Case E-9/07, L’Oréal Norge AS v Per Aarskog AS and Others . The request came in the wake of trade mark infringement proceedings brought by L’Oréal in respect of its REDKEN trade mark for goods in Class 3, which the defendants parallel imported from the US via third parties. The...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Ministers from the four-nation European economic grouping EFTA agreed on Monday to extend their network of free-trade and investment pacts to India and key Southeast Asian countries.
Prodicus (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Posted by a commenter (anon at 11:28, 9th June 2008) at Iain Dale's blog : The four members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein – can trade with EU members as freely as EU members can trade with each other. But they retain their independence, pay only a token contribution to the EU budget (as against Britain's £13.9 billion per year) and can...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Bulgaria's Finance Ministry has received 264 projects applying for funding from the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area, the Ministry announced at a press conference Wednesday. This is the program though which three of the four EFTA members - Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein - are ...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
A free trade agreement is slated to be finalised between India and the European Free Trade Association by early 2009. The EFTA countries include Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
SPICY IP (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
The Financial Express reports that Commerce Minister Kamal Nath is all set to make IP a part of the free trade agreement to be finalised by early 2009 between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)- established in 1960 and comprising of countries such as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. While earlier the EFTA and India had a joint study group, they now plan to move towards...
SouthAsiaNews.com (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), comprising Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland, have decided to conclude a free trade agreement within next one year, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said Tuesday. In January this year we signed with the EFTA countries the agreement to start negotiations for a [...]
Rachel Joyce's BlogSpot (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Not many people in this Country know the difference between the European Union, the European Economic Area and the European Free Trade Association. On my straw poll of 30-40 ordinary people, none knew. That would be the BBC, then..... We haven't had a proper, informed debate in this country. Regular readers will know that above all I am in favour of democracy and trusting people. We were let down today...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
I had been so excited about the election in Alberta and the non-election federally that it slipped by me that Canada signed a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The EFTA are those neutral European countries that are so interested in being beige that they refuse to join the European Union. That is right, Canada can now trade goods with Norway, Switzerland, Iceland...
