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...Ireland secured one of the biggest prizes in Brussels top-jobbery when Phil Hogan was chosen to be EU trade commissioner last year....
...While in office, Hogan was fairly openly pushing back against the interventionist instincts of Thierry Breton, the internal market commissioner....
...Phil Hogan, Brussels trade commissioner, said the EU needed to see “substantial improvement” in Cambodia’s respect for human rights and labour laws to fully restore EU market access....
...(FT) Out of the race EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan has withdrawn his name from the race to become the next chief of the World Trade Organization after his candidacy caused an ethical and logistical headache...
...Boris Johnson will dump his pledge to end the post-Brexit transition period by December 2020, EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan claimed, in a sign of deepening Brussels scepticism that talks on the future...
...(FT) Big Phil falters EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan’s pitch to lead the World Trade Organization has prompted Brussels to apply conflict of interest rules limiting his public appearances just as the...
...While falling far short of a US-style effort to “decouple” from China, the new proposals unveiled on Wednesday by commissioners Margrethe Vestager, Thierry Breton and Phil Hogan are the latest sign of a...
...Michael Gove, the UK Cabinet Office minister, has acknowledged that up to 50,000 people will have to be recruited to carry out customs paperwork under a new trade deal....
...Phil Hogan, the EU’s trade commissioner, warned last week that a deal would need to be reached by the end of October to be translated and approved in time. The clock is ticking....
...(FT) European round-up Brexit, Brexit, Brexit . . . and China EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan said determination not to prolong the post-Brexit period has created an “unwise” deadline....
...Meanwhile in Brussels, a puff of white smoke from the Berlaymont on Tuesday and it’s Valdis Dombrovskis, Latvia’s former prime minister, who is the EU’s new trade commissioner, replacing Big Phil Hogan....
...In other personnel news, Valdis Dombrovskis was overwhelmingly approved by the European Parliament as the EU’s new trade commissioner to replace Big Phil Hogan....
...Trade commissioner Phil Hogan and other senior EU figures have stressed that Britain’s determination to leave the EU single market and customs union would mean a hard border for trade in goods, with new...
...Ms Weyand, the chief official working for Phil Hogan, the EU’s trade commissioner, said that “we are moving at a snail’s pace on the investment agreement”....
...So said EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan in April, mirroring notorious calls for protectionism in the US....
...Earlier on Tuesday, Hogan Gidley, deputy White House press secretary, announced that Mr Trump had pardoned Mr DeBartolo, who pleaded guilty to corruption charges in 1998....
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...In the news Exclusive The EU should not aim to manufacture all its medical supplies, but instead pursue new trade deals to cut tariffs, Phil Hogan, EU trade commissioner, told Trade Secrets, the FT’s newsletter...
...One of the key relationships for the EU will be between Mr Barnier and Ms Weyand’s political boss — EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan....
...Your coronavirus reads The Netherlands’ former EU commissioner Frits Bolkestein thinks “disastrous” eurobonds would be a “nail in the coffin” of the EU....
...Malmstrom’s parting shots The new commissioners and portfolios are being sorted out in Brussels, and the departing ones are entering ruminative mode....
...Mr Creed said Phil Hogan, the Irish national who is EU agriculture commissioner, has reiterated Brussels’ “readiness to respond and support Ireland” to meet the challenges facing farmers and food producers...
...Vanessa Turner Allen & Overy LLP, Brussels Anna Lyle-Smythe Slaughter and May, Brussels Maurits Dolmans Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Brussels/London Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte Hogan Lovells...
...Outlining options to close the gap, Phil Hogan, the EU agriculture commissioner, in December asked whether “member states are prepared to increase the contribution from 1 per cent to 1.1 or 1.2 per cent...
...“I think that there’s a high level of delusion in London at the moment about what is required to be done,” Mr Hogan, EU agricultural commissioner, said, reflecting Brussels’ frustration at London’s approach...
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