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Stephane Sejourne At EU headquarters - Brussels

European Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy and European Commissioner for Industry, SMEs and the Single Market Stephane Sejourne speaks to the press prior to a European Union (EU) Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on February 18, 2025. Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Stephane Sejourne At EU headquarters - Brussels

European Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy and European Commissioner for Industry, SMEs and the Single Market Stephane Sejourne speaks to the press prior to a European Union (EU) Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on February 18, 2025. Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Stephane Sejourne At EU headquarters - Brussels

European Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy and European Commissioner for Industry, SMEs and the Single Market Stephane Sejourne speaks to the press prior to a European Union (EU) Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on February 18, 2025. Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EU leaders meet in Spain on bloc's future strategy, enlargement

STORY: EU leaders meet in Spain on bloc's future strategy, enlargement DATELINE: Oct. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: GRANADA, Spain CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of City of Granada 2. various of the Informal Meeting of Heads of State and Government STORYLINE: Leaders of the European Union (EU) member states met in Spain's Granada on Friday for an informal summit to discuss the bloc's future strategy and enlargement. Discussions include the future Strategic Agenda 2024-2029 and preparation for the bloc's next enlargement, according to the Spanish presidency of the EU Council. The EU enlargement is the process whereby states join the 27-nation bloc after they have fulfilled a set of political and economic conditions. Currently, eight countries, including several from the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Moldova, have been granted candidate status, but each follows different processes of rapprochement with the EU. Spain is currently holding the rotating six-month presidency of the EU Co

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Growth strategy

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) speaks at a meeting of the Industrial Competitiveness Council at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2014, where the government unveiled a draft of its revised economic growth strategy.

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Growth strategy

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from front) speaks at a meeting of the Industrial Competitiveness Council at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2014, where the government unveiled a draft of its revised economic growth strategy.

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Growth strategy

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) speaks during a meeting of the industrial competitiveness council at his office in Tokyo on June 12, 2013. The final draft of the government's growth strategy was presented at the meeting. In the front is economic revitalization minister Akira Amari.

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Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 1999 shows former Asahi Breweries Ltd. President Hirotaro Higuchi (L) handing a report of the Economic Strategy Council as its chief to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Higuchi, who launched the brewer's mega-hit beer Asahi Super Dry in 1987, died of acute cardiac failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2012. He was 86.

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Key panel proposes 3-step plan for Japanese economy

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, an ad hoc panel of top business leaders and scholars, hands his council's final report to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Feb. 26. The report urged the government to revive Japan's economy and set its deficit-ridden finances in order around fiscal 2008 by implementing a three-stage plan over the next 10 years.

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Panel submit policy recommendations

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, presents his panel's policy recommendations to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) on Wednesday Oct. 14. The panel urged the government to pump 'tens of trillions of yen' into the nation's troubled banking industry and called for an additional stimulus package of more than 10 trillion yen to rev up the faltering economy.

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Nigerian president inaugurates malaria elimination council

STORY: Nigerian president inaugurates malaria elimination council DATELINE: Aug. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:49 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari unveiling the End Malaria Council (EMC) with officials in Abuja 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigerian President 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigerian President 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigerian President 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigerian President STORYLINE: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated a public-private partnership council for the elimination of malaria, a major public health issue in the most populous African country. Buhari, while inaugurating the 16-member End Malaria Council (EMC) in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, said beyond improving the quality of life, health, and well-being of Nigerians, the concerted strategy to tackle malaria had both public health as well as socio-economic benefits for the country.

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China Premier Urges Japan to Join "Silk Road" Infrastructure Project

TOKYO, Japan, -May 10: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday urged Japan to join China's "Silk Road" infrastructure project, saying its participation would likely contribute to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic stimulus policy. "Our working-level cooperation will evolve. Our One Belt, One Road　initiative will be coordinated with Japan's growth strategy," Li said in a speech in Tokyo at a reception celebrating the 40th anniversary of the signing of a bilateral friendship treaty. At a summit between Abe and Li on Wednesday, Japan and China agreed to launch a public-private sector council to consider specific projects of cooperation related to Beijing's "One Belt, One Road" cross-border infrastructure initiative. China has sought to expand its infrastructure networks in Asia,

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Sameera Fazili Delivers Press Briefing

Sameera Fazili, deputy director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Biden released a multi-pronged strategy to secure critical supply chains in products ranging from medicines to microchips, and is also weighing a potential trade probe that could result in U.S. tariffs on certain magnet imports. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sameera Fazili Delivers Press Briefing

Sameera Fazili, deputy director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Biden released a multi-pronged strategy to secure critical supply chains in products ranging from medicines to microchips, and is also weighing a potential trade probe that could result in U.S. tariffs on certain magnet imports. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sameera Fazili Delivers Press Briefing

Sameera Fazili, deputy director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Biden released a multi-pronged strategy to secure critical supply chains in products ranging from medicines to microchips, and is also weighing a potential trade probe that could result in U.S. tariffs on certain magnet imports. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sameera Fazili Delivers Press Briefing

Sameera Fazili, deputy director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Biden released a multi-pronged strategy to secure critical supply chains in products ranging from medicines to microchips, and is also weighing a potential trade probe that could result in U.S. tariffs on certain magnet imports. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sameera Fazili Delivers Press Briefing

Sameera Fazili, deputy director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Biden released a multi-pronged strategy to secure critical supply chains in products ranging from medicines to microchips, and is also weighing a potential trade probe that could result in U.S. tariffs on certain magnet imports. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sameera Fazili Delivers Press Briefing

Sameera Fazili, deputy director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Biden released a multi-pronged strategy to secure critical supply chains in products ranging from medicines to microchips, and is also weighing a potential trade probe that could result in U.S. tariffs on certain magnet imports. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Growth strategy

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from front) speaks at a meeting of the Industrial Competitiveness Council at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2014, where the government unveiled a draft of its revised economic growth strategy. (Kyodo)

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Key panel proposes 3-step plan for Japanese economy

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, an ad hoc panel of top business leaders and scholars, hands his council's final report to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on Feb. 26. The report urged the government to revive Japan's economy and set its deficit-ridden finances in order around fiscal 2008 by implementing a three-stage plan over the next 10 years. ==Kyodo

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Panel submit policy recommendations

Hirotaro Higuchi (L), chairman of the Economic Strategy Council, presents his panel's policy recommendations to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) on Wednesday Oct. 14. The panel urged the government to pump 'tens of trillions of yen' into the nation's troubled banking industry and called for an additional stimulus package of more than 10 trillion yen to rev up the faltering economy. ==Kyodo