All posts tagged "Trade"

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  Former UK officials call for Brexit transition extension

  Former UK civil service chiefs – including retired officials such as Cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell, head of the civil service Bob Kerslake, and permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting

  • Posted April 23, 2020
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  The roots of risk: how economic imbalances are poisoning politics

  Gathering in Paris for the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, finance department leaders from 10 countries debated the political risks threatening economic growth – and their roots in rising inequality,

  • Posted September 12, 2019
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  From bitter experience: Lord O’Donnell on the next recession

  The world economy is in trouble, former UK Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell told the 2019 Global Government Summit, and governments must become more effective – repairing their economies, and reshaping

  • Posted August 14, 2019
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  EU-UK trade deal could take six years, says former WTO chief

  The former director of the World Trade Organisation has said that a comprehensive trade deal between the UK and the EU could take five to six years to complete. Pascal

  • Posted March 17, 2017
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  Antonia Romeo confirmed as UK trade perm sec

  Antonia Romeo, a British official based in New York to manage the UK’s trade relations with the US, has been named the new permanent secretary of the UK’s Department for

  • Posted January 16, 2017
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  Interim Brexit deal with EU ‘inevitable’ for UK, says former Foreign Office chief

  The UK will need an interim deal with the European Union before it fully leaves the bloc, the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s former civil service chief has said. Sir Simon

  • Posted October 26, 2016
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  UK government under pressure to set out Brexit ‘vision’

  The UK government is coming under growing domestic pressure to explain its Brexit strategy, with MPs of all parties and former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell calling on the prime minister

  • Posted September 5, 2016
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  Lord O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Ten weeks on from the UK’s EU referendum, former cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell considers why the electorate voted to leave – and tells Matt Ross that new prime minister

  • Posted September 5, 2016
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  Commonwealth secretary-general: ‘We will turbo-charge Commonwealth trade advantage’

  The Commonwealth will “turbo-charge” efforts to increase trade advantages for its 53 member countries, following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland has told parliamentarians.

  • Posted July 21, 2016
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  OECD praises Turkey’s ‘resilient’ business sector but calls for reforms

  The OECD has praised Turkey’s business sector for demonstrating “extraordinary resilience” during the current political unrest in the country, but also called for the government to implement a number of policies in

  • Posted July 19, 2016
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