{"id":62854,"date":"2015-10-14T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=45f994860d9e1b91902d67da76edd9e1"},"modified":"2015-10-14T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T17:37:21","slug":"press-release-european-commission-trade-strategy-prime-ministers-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62854","title":{"rendered":"Press release: European Commission trade strategy: Prime Minister&#8217;s statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Welcoming the European Commission\u2019s trade strategy published today, the Prime Minister said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the biggest benefits of our EU membership is the free trade deals between the EU and the rest of the world, which tear down barriers to business and open up markets. That\u2019s why 60% of the UK\u2019s exports go to the single market and the countries with which the EU has trade deals.<\/p>\n<p>These agreements open up huge opportunities for British businesses: for example, our exports to South Korea have doubled since that trade deal was done. And we achieve much more in these trade agreements with third countries by negotiating as part of a market of 500 million consumers than we would if the UK went it alone.<\/p>\n<p>We already benefit from more than 50 trade agreements between the EU and third countries and today\u2019s strategy from the European Commission shows the huge prize still on offer \u2013 if the EU completed all the agreements on the table, it could add \u00a320 billion each year to the UK economy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the benefits I\u2019ve been pushing for as part of the UK renegotiation and so I\u2019m delighted that the European Commission has committed today to push ahead with ambitious agreements with China, Australia, New Zealand and countries in south-east Asia and to do more to ensure that SMEs and consumers across Europe can benefit from these trade agreements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This is firmly in Britain\u2019s interests and it\u2019s proof of how we can persuade the European Commission to focus on actions that will create growth and jobs here at home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron made a statement welcoming the European Commission\u2019s trade strategy published today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}