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29.06.2009 @ 17:28 CET
The European Commission has condemned a coup in Honduras which saw the country's president, Manuel Zelaya, forcibly removed from his home in the early hours of Sunday morning and flown to Costa Rica by military aeroplane to start a life in exile.
29.06.2009 @ 09:27 CET
The European Union on Sunday said it would have a "strong and collective response" to any harassment of diplomats in Iran, in solidarity with Britan which saw eight of its embassy staff arrested last week.
02.07.2009 @ 09:30 CET
Iran says Europe is no longer qualified to hold nuclear talks due to its meddling with the post-election protests in the country, with Sweden, as the new EU presidency, calling up officials from the 27-member bloc to discuss the next diplomatic move.
24.06.2009 @ 09:33 CET
Upon the occasion of the Israeli prime minister's first trip to Europe since his election, Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi has given his backing to Israel's plan for a demilitarised Palestinian state as a solution to the decades-old Middle East conflict. The friendship between the two countries is developing apace even as relations between the EU and Israel are strained.
22.06.2009 @ 09:26 CET
Italy said Sunday it had instructed its embassy in Tehran to provide humanitarian aid to wounded protesters, pending a coordinated response from all EU countries. Meanwhile, the incoming Swedish EU presidency said no asylum would be granted to refugees.
24.06.2009 @ 17:29 CET
An IMF-led loan to help Ukraine buy Russian gas is emerging as a favoured option to prevent another European energy crisis this winter.
19.06.2009 @ 18:05 CET
EU leaders on Friday (19 June) asked Iranian authorities to show restraint against protesters, amid mounting tension in the country following a tough speech by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
17.06.2009 @ 17:42 CET
European gas companies may end up buying excess volumes of Russian gas to help prevent a new EU supply crisis, in plans to be discussed at the EU summit on Thursday.
22.06.2009 @ 09:14 CET
US public relations firm APCO has begun lobbying EU institutions over the ownership of a Georgian TV station, in a case linking curious events in London, Tbilisi and Minsk.
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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.
15.06.2009 @ 09:30 CET
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday backed the creation of a Palestinian state in a major speech, which had been hotly anticipated in both Washington and Brussels.
16.06.2009 @ 09:42 CET
Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman ended his first EU visit on Monday evening without securing an "upgrade" in EU-Israel relations.
09.06.2009 @ 11:18 CET
The EU's refusal to talk to Hamas is based on simplistic assumptions and is damaging the peace process, according to an expert on political Islam and former EU adviser. But there is little prospect of a shift in EU policy for now.
06.06.2009 @ 11:24 CET
The EU is sending a "fact-finding" mission to Ukraine to see if its financial troubles could lead to a new gas crisis. But it is wary of tackling deeper problems of politics and corruption in the eastern gas trade, which also threaten EU energy security.
Twenty years after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, the EU should stop thinking of its dialogue with China as a human r...
The European Union should convene an international high-level emergency summit to deal with the situation in Sudan after...
Monday's ground-breaking agreement to put the Russia-Ukraine gas trade on the path to free market principles should put ...
05.07.2009 @ 17:23 CET
Italian MEP Mario Mauro has pulled out of the race to become the next president of the EU parliament. The move leaves the way clear for Polish conservative deputy Jerzy Buzek to take up the post instead.
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.
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