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26.06.2009 @ 09:29 CET
The European commission added its voice to growing condemnation of Chinese plans to enforce the use of its 'Green Dam' filtering software on Thursday and urged the country's authorities to postpone the decision.
23.06.2009 @ 17:37 CET
Sweden's history of progressive positions within the European Union on human rights has campaigners optimistic about the upcoming Swedish presidency of the EU.
22.06.2009 @ 17:30 CET
The upcoming Swedish EU presidency will push for more transparent rules governing migration when it begins negotiations on a five-year justice and home affairs programme later this year, Europe minister Cecilia Malmstrom said on Monday.
03.07.2009 @ 09:05 CET
Governments may not hinder citizens' rights to move freely in the European Union when investigating possible fake marriages between EU and non-EU citizens, new guidelines published by the European Commission on Thursday say.
11.06.2009 @ 17:43 CET
A "Euro-metropole" established at the border between France and Belgium is a pilot project for what the EU will gradually develop into: public administrations with a stronger regional, trans-national focus, Stefaan de Clerck, vice-president of the body and Belgium's justice minister told EUobserver.
10.06.2009 @ 17:39 CET
The European Commission on Wednesday presented the priorities it would like the EU to focus on in the justice area for the next five years, including increased security cooperation and improved immigration management.
16.06.2009 @ 09:24 CET
The EU and US adopted a joint statement on Monday on the resettling of inmates from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. At the same time, while in Washington, Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi promised to take in three detainees, after six other EU states already said they were willing to accept former detainees.
04.06.2009 @ 17:43 CET
The 27-nation EU has agreed to share all details on Guantanamo detainees before and after they are allowed to reside on its territory, but a get-out clause to temporarily prevent them from moving freely across the bloc has also been agreed.
03.06.2009 @ 10:44 CET
Europeans distrust the private sector and perceive the anti-corruption drive by government to be inefficient, while in the new member states bribery is particularly hitting the poor, a corruption survey released by Transparency International shows.
05.06.2009 @ 08:41 CET
Italy on Thursday called for "obligatory burden sharing" among EU member states when it comes to taking in asylum seekers, but the call has received a cool reaction by other member states. Rome has also drawn fire from human rights groups for forcibly returning hundreds of people intercepted in its territorial waters in May back to Libya.
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26.05.2009 @ 17:35 CET
Ethnic and religious profiling is still widespread in Europe, although it is both damaging and ineffective, a report released on Tuesday argues.
26.05.2009 @ 09:29 CET
The EU on Monday adopted plans for a European Union work permit aimed at attracting highly skilled foreigners to the bloc, similar to the US' Green Card.
28.05.2009 @ 09:16 CET
Human rights violations remained widespread across the world in 2008, including Europe, with the global economic crisis not only aggravating the existing problems, but creating new ones as well, shows human rights group Amnesty International's yearly report on the situation of human rights in the world, released on Thursday.
26.05.2009 @ 09:18 CET
The European Commission on Monday presented EU member states with its assessment of how well western Balkan countries have been fulfilling the conditions for visa-free travel to the bloc, with Macedonia given the best mark, and Albania and Bosnia the worst.
The European media has been awash with horror stories of government excess in electronic surveillance. But the European ...
The Italian government on Wednesday presented plans to tighten up its immigration policy, which include making staying i...
European Union buildings and the Sheraton Hotel in the EU's capital, Brussels, were among the targets of an Islamist ter...
03.07.2009 @ 21:50 CET
Sweden is considering holding an informal summit in September to deal with the financial crisis and climate change - two of the biggest issues on its EU presidency agenda. French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly supports the idea, says a spokesperson for Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt.
03.07.2009 @ 14:56 CET
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Friday said that a European Parliament vote on Jose Manuel Barroso's bid to become European Commission president for a second time will not take place mid-July. Stockholm is now pushing to have it take place by 15 September.
03.07.2009 @ 13:58 CET
Turnout in Bulgaria's legislative elections on Sunday will reach 55 to 60%, according to polling agency Gallup. It says Sofia mayor Borisov's centre-right Gerb party will get up to 30% of the votes, followed by the ruling Socialists (19 - 23%) and the Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (15%).
03.07.2009 @ 13:57 CET
The resignation of Croat PM Sanader was his political "rebellion" against Slovenia's blocking of Croatia's EU talks, MP Andrija Hebrang from Mr Sanader's conservative HDZ party said, reports Hina. Meanwhile, Slovenia said it hopes the new Croat government will resume talks on their border dispute.
03.07.2009 @ 09:35 CET
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has attacked a German court decision to allow the Lisbon treaty after a tweak to German national law. "I do not believe that it is possible to annul the known defects of the Lisbon Treaty by an accompanying law," he wrote in the Mlada Fronta Dnes newspaper.
03.07.2009 @ 09:31 CET
The four EU states which had full ambassador-level representation in Honduras - France, Germany, Italy and Spain - have recalled their envoys in protest at a recent coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the Swedish EU presidency said. Spain has led the EU's opposition to the coup.
03.07.2009 @ 08:32 CET
France has said that draft commission plans for hedge fund regulation are a step in the right direction but will need to be tightened up before they can be accepted. "I will not let this directive be adopted in this state," said the country's economy minister Christine Lagarde, reports Reuters.
03.07.2009 @ 08:30 CET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised countries that measures must be stepped up to end market cyclicality, reports the Wall Street Journal. Economic growth - when it returns - must be tempered she said, to prevent further cycles of boom and bust.
Moody's credit rating agency downgraded Ireland from its top rating on Thursday, following similar moves by other agencies earlier this year. Moody's cited the government's deteriorating public finances as the main reason, as an increasing share of tax revenues is used to service the country's debt.
03.07.2009 @ 08:29 CET
The European Central Bank piled further pressure on eurozone banks to increase lending on Thursday, indicating it may hold interest rates at the current record low of 1 percent for some time. ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet urged the banks to live “up to their responsibilities”.
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The 7th European Parliament elections are due to take place in June 2009. Some 400 million Europeans will be eligible to elect 736 MEPs for the only European institution where citizens have a direct vote.
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