Transatlantic Trade

Senior representative at the U.S. Mission at the European Union Elena Bryan said in Ploiesti (60 km north of Bucharest) on Thursday that each EU member should make a decision that should be best suited locally as regards the shale gas exploitation.

It is not the right time to engage in talks over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with Turkey, the US secretary of commerce says

All projections indicate that Turkey’s economy would eventually be harmed due to the eventual integration of the world’s two largest economies through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the head of Turkey’s leading business club has warned.

Bulgaria and the US hope the four-way talks on resolving the Ukraine crisis will generate positive results, it was announced on Thurday.

Ankara has put forward a plan to form a free trade zone with the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the Russian economy minister reportedly said after holding talks with his Turkish counterpart, amid Turkey’s mounting frustration with the European Union over a similar scheme.

Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has warned Turkey may pull out of a customs agreement with the European Union if the bloc finalizes Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks without Ankara.

The Young Society Leaders, an arm of the American Turkish Association, gathered at Istanbul’s Sabancı Center on June 20.

"The world is safer and more just" when the European Union and the United States stand together, US President Barack Obama stated.

Obama is on an official trip to Brussels, the first such visit to the EU's political heart since 2005.