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The Struggle for the Middle East: The Soviet Union and the Middle East 1958-70 (1972) online; Louis, William Roger. The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism (1984) MacArthur-Seal, Daniel-Joseph. "Turkey and Britain: from enemies to allies, 1914–1939."
The common objective is to establish a single market for goods and services in West Asia, like the European Union. U.S.–Middle East Free Trade Area: Established in 2003 by the United States, this aimed to gradually increase trade and investment in the Middle East by assisting countries to implement domestic reforms and protecting private ...
There was a growing concern in the United Kingdom that Germany was a rising power, and about the implications that the proposed railway would have as regards access to the Persian Gulf. Qatar became a British Protectorate in 1916, and after the First World War , the British influence in the Middle East reached its fullest extent with the ...
The United Kingdom did not seek to adopt the euro as its official currency for the duration of its membership of the European Union (EU), and secured an opt-out at the euro's creation via the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, wherein the Bank of England would only be a member of the European System of Central Banks. United Kingdom opinion polls showed ...
Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreements, Summaries of EU Legislation, EU website, 2007. Consulted 4 September 2010. System of Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Cumulation, European Commission Taxation and Customs Union page. Consulted 4 September 2010. Euro-Med free trade area: the benefits of cumulation, EFTA Bulletin, Switzerland, July–August 2006 ...
At the end of January 2020, the United Kingdom left the European Union, with a subsequent trade agreement with the EU in effect from 1 January 2021, setting out the terms of the UK-EU economic relationship and what abilities the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office can use in foreign relations related to trade.
The European Commission Directorate-General for Trade lists the 10 largest trading partners of the European Union (EU) with their total trade (sum of imports and exports) in billions of euros for 2020 and 2021. With the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU, the United Kingdom entered the top 10 partners of the EU-27.
The Sykes–Picot Agreement (/ ˈ s aɪ k s ˈ p iː k oʊ,-p ɪ ˈ k oʊ,-p iː ˈ k oʊ / [1]) was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.