Steinhoff is dominant in the neighbouring South African market and might abuse that position dominance in the Zimbabwean market by undercutting prices or becoming a price leader.

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The emerging banking union is not only the first step toward a European fiscal union it is also the final step toward completing the European common market. Without a common resolution mechanism that levels the playing field, the common market will remain unfinished.

The parties intend to develop their relations with the European Union, as European States which respect European values and standards, and confirm their commitment to the consistent implementation of democratic and market oriented reforms.

The European Union market remains the most open, and the most important, for developing country exports globally.

And the Cotonou Agreement provides preferential market access to the European Union by African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

The single market has been crucial to making Europe one of the most prosperous places on the planet. And the EU has been a global leader on environmental sustainability.

My own country, Uganda, has a quota to export 50,000 metric tons of sugar to the European Union market.

Indeed, in May 2000, Joschka Fischer, the ex leader of the Green Party and German Foreign Minister, gave a long speech about the necessity of European integration. The question about European federalism was posed to all member states, and none answered.

Europe s common market has been the single greatest success of post World War II European policy, boosting economic growth and fostering cultural interchange. But a common market requires a level playing field, and the European Commission has worked hard to achieve this in many sectors over the years.

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Europe also has much to gain from ongoing financial integration with the eventual goal of a truly pan European financial market. Greater market access, market reform, and efforts at regulatory harmonization including those under the EU's Financial Services Action Plan should help advance this trend.

The officials and diplomats of the European Commission still hoped that market forces would persuade Italy to adjust its budget plan before Italy officially submitted it to the European Commission in mid October.

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European banks remain balkanized, with a patchwork of national regulators seeking to promote their own champions. European governments debt may all be denominated in euro, but German and Italian debt are hardly the same thing, so the government euro bond market lacks the depth and liquidity of the US Treasury Bill market.

Thus, the US slowdown affects European exports in two ways. It has an indirect effect on European exports to Asia, which can be sizeable because the US market is so important for Asian exports.

It should facilitate further incorporation of Gazprom into the EU market through market liberalization and downstream integration. Yet it must also press for Gazprom s ultimate restructuring and real market entry into Russia for European companies, because Russia s unwillingness to do so guarantees energy insecurity for Europe.

Imposing billions of dollars of fines on the most conspicuous wealth creators is not the way to go. Europe needs to make the likes of Microsoft and Intel feel at home in Brussels, Paris, or Berlin, not to become a political market leader in supplying sympathetic verdicts to market losers.

The Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, for example, has incurred additional costs of 19,000 through having to purchase inputs on the European market.

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In this context, a new initiative had been taken by the European Commission a help desk for export promotion, which aimed to help exporters in developing countries to have easier access to the European common market.

Unless the new internal market commissioner takes a different view, the European Commission plans to move further along the road to genuine pan European regulation. The report now goes to the European Parliament, which can be expected to push harder for more integration, as it usually does.

Promoting a pan European private placement market might help, as would aligning standards for covered bonds. But both strategies would face serious legal obstacles.

Slovakia, as a member of the European Union, also provides duty free and quota free market access for all exports from least developed countries.

There has been progress on all these issues, guided by a report entitled For a progressive Europe delivered by Pascal Lamy to the European Socialist Party s leader, former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. But European Socialists remain divided German and British members oppose higher spending and fiscal homogeneity.

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Secondly, under the beef protocol of that agreement, African countries that produce beef have quotas to export beef duty free to the European Union market.

To help developing countries fully exploit market access opportunities, the European Community this summer pledged to increase such assistance to 1 billion euros per year.

A mild recession is expected in Europe this year, and unemployment is on the rise. Beyond deficit reduction, we need to implement a 120 billion ( 155 billion) European investment plan, and deepen the European Single Market to unleash its growth potential.

Given widespread apathy about changes in consumer prices, the modest success of a new market to hedge inflation risk, the European inflation futures market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), is noteworthy. Since September, this new market has traded the Eurozone s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, or HICP a contract that traders call the hiccup.

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But renewal of this sort cannot be left to global market forces, as the results might not necessarily benefit European agriculture and society. If the market misbehaves, farmers could be reduced to poverty, leading to the neglect of large areas of Europe.

There were similar fears recently when it became known that US based money market funds had lent heavily to European banks. And some leading US banks also rely on money market funding here, too, the shadows and the banks have aligned interests.

The investment on people, the construction of an active welfare state through the modernisation of the European social model, with cohesion and a labour market without exclusions.

The European Parliament deals with the important areas where individual countries have pooled their sovereignty, like trade, the creation of a pan European market, and the biggest environmental issues. But these are not often the questions that trigger the most passionate interest.

This was evident at the world summit, where leader after leader from all over the world stressed the importance of tackling poverty.

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