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BRICS welcomes five new members to the bloc 18 March 2024Starting 1 January 2024, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran have officially joined the BRICS trade bloc, as confirmed b...
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Renewable Energy Directive raises concerns over impact on developing countries 18 March 2024In 2009, the European Union adopted the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), mandating Member States to obtain 10% of all transport fuels from renewable ...
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Myanmar military junta representative attends ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat 15 February 2024
On 29 January, the military administration in Myanmar sent a representative to the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat, marking the first time that a rep...
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Rekindling regional collaboration in Latin America: CompaRe – LDE mission to São Paulo 06 December 2023
Latin America has seen multiple waves of regional integration, with various levels of success. The last wave foundered after the rise of nationalist p...
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How to make ASEAN Economic Integration work for businesses? CompaRe roundtable in Singapore 06 December 2023
On ASEAN, there is broad agreement on two points. First, effective economic integration in ASEAN has serious potential. Second, ASEAN has so far faile...
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Pacific Alliance reaffirm cooperation between the two regional blocs 01 December 2023The ASEAN community formed by Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet...
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The European Union (EU) and the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) launch EU-CARIFORUM Food Security Programme 01 December 2023On 23 November 2023, the Caribbean Forum, a subgroup of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, joined forces with the EU to launch...
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SADC and Germany enter into a Framework Agreement on Development Cooperation with the aim of fostering economic development 01 December 2023The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Federal Republic of Germany solidified their commitment to collaborative development with th...
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Unification of OACPS strikes back with Samoa Agreement 30 November 2023The African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the European Union have maintained a longstanding partnership known as the ACP-EU Partne...
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Somalia becomes eighth member of East African Community 30 November 2023In November, Somalia was the latest country to join the East African Community (EAC). This follows the Democratic Republic of Congo's accession to the...
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Nicaragua left the OAS on 19 November 2023 30 November 2023Following a series of diplomatic catastrophes and human rights violations in the country, Nicaragua has left the Organization of American States (OAS)...
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China conducting joint military exercises with 5 ASEAN Member States 21 November 2023China is conducting joint military exercises this week with Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. In doing so, it is seeking to strengthen ...
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How to design smart and lean regional integration that works, also outside the EU: Two day international CompaRe conference 05 September 2023On the 31st August and 1st September 2023, CompaRe hosted a conference on “Smart and lean integration: finding regional solutions to global challenges...
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CompaRe conference and call for papers on lean integration 23 June 2023
This conference explores the potential of regional collaboration for meeting some of the key challenges facing our world today, and to do so in a sma...
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Roundtable Conference on Constitutional Process in East African Community and African Continental Free Trade Agreement in Kigali 06 June 2023
What should a confederal constitution for the EAC look like? What are the legal challenges for making the African Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) work? And w...