Sentences with phrase «as the bloc seeks»

The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

SYDNEY, March 19 - Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed during a weekend summit in Sydney to establish a regional infrastructure pipeline, Australia's foreign minister said, as the bloc seeks to balance rising Chinese influence.

BERLIN (AP)-- Britain's decision to leave the European Union puts German Chancellor Angela Merkel at center stage as the bloc seeks to preserve its unity and win back skeptical voters across the continent.

The European Union executive will propose at least a 30 percent reduction target for CO2 emissions from trucks by 2030, an EU source said on Monday, as the bloc seeks to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

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Australia is hosting the ASEAN meeting, despite not being a member of the 10 - nation bloc, as it seeks to deepen political and trade ties in the face of China's rising influence.

Denmark's krone is being snapped up by investors looking for low - debt regions as they seek to escape the fiscal crisis threatening to destabilize the euro bloc.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

The austerity measures in the eurozone's third - largest economy come as France seeks to capitalise on the redrawing of European power - relations with a new intra-EU bloc that would effectively create a two - tier union.

EU leaders attempted to rescue the European project and Prime Minister David Cameron sought to calm fears over the U.K.'s vote to leave the bloc as ratings agencies downgraded the country.

This bloc of four biggest emerging economies - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - has consistently been articulating developing countries» point of view at every forum while seeking bigger actions from rich nation to cut down emissions as part of their historical responsibility.