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UK, India strike trade deal amid US tariff blitz
UK, India strike trade deal amid US tariff blitz
Economy
By AFP

The UK on Tuesday agreed a free trade agreement with India, its biggest such deal since leaving the European Union, after negotiations relaunched in February following US tariff threats. His Labour government added it is "the biggest and most economically significant bilateral trade deal the UK has done since leaving the EU".

EDF complaint blocks Czech-Korean nuclear deal
EDF complaint blocks Czech-Korean nuclear deal
Economy
By AFP

A Czech court said Tuesday it blocked a multi-billion-dollar deal between Prague and South Korea's KHNP on the construction of two nuclear units following a complaint by France's EDF. KHNP won the contract last July after beating EDF in the tender, but the French giant filed an appeal with the Czech antitrust watchdog UOHS. When the UOHS rejected the appeal last week, EDF filed a lawsuit.