EUROPE-PH News

September 07, 2014
Gov't open to more talks with business to improve investment climate - Coloma

The government is open to hold more dialogues with the business community on how to further enhance the country's business climate and attract more investors.

September 07, 2014
In love with the warm weather

German national Dietmar Dan Braun was still a manager at the E-learning Division of the World Bank, he traveled for the first time to Manila and found here a place where he could see himself retiring.

September 02, 2014
Philippine competitiveness gains further

The Philippines has continued its advance in competitiveness in the latest annual report of the World Economic Forum, riding on the impact of reforms that have enabled the country to make the biggest gains among economies tracked since 2010.

September 02, 2014
Additional measures to ease port congestion approved

Various government agencies are set to implement new measures to help ease congestion in key Metro Manila ports, a Palace official said.

August 31, 2014
Groups say order to decongest ports in Manila "unrealistic"

Industry Groups are apprehensive over an order instructing importers and brokers to withdraw their overstaying Customs- cleared containers in Manila ports by Sept. 8.

August 28, 2014
Business groups welcome second quarter results

Business groups on Thursday welcomed the faster-than- expected economic growth in the second quarter amid the truck ban and port congestion in Manila, and other issues like questions about the stability of power supply and prices.

August 27, 2014
Gaining from the AEC

IT is important to get ready for the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which is scheduled to start on January 1, 2016.

August 26, 2014
ECCP bats for simpler investment registration process

The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is pushing for the rationalization of the registration process for foreign investments, noting that bottlenecks in such procedures dampen the country's business climate.

August 26, 2014
Aquino pressed to ensure reforms stay

With less than two years left to the end of his term, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III should ensure more reforms survive political transition in 2016 by making them laws, business leaders and analysts said yesterday.

August 26, 2014
ECCP seeks to scrap WESM price caps

The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) has been proposing a more drastic measure of totally scrapping the price caps for the country's Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) as it labeled such to be of "manipulative nature" to a free market.

August 26, 2014
The power gap

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) produces a daily "Power Situation Outlook".

August 19, 2014
"Block auction" for add'l Malampaya gas and PNOC's "banked gas"

A "block auction" or "joint tender" of the banked gas held by the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) and the anticipated additional 200-megawatt gas supply from the Malampaya field by 2016 was proposed by the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) to Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla.