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Balkan summit to go ahead despite Serbia-Kosovo row

17.03.2010 @ 09:17 CET

The Croatian prime minister confirmed on Tuesday that an EU-Balkan summit will take place in Brdo, Slovenia, this Saturday, despite a dispute between Serbia and Kosovo which threatened to derail the event.

EU diplomatic corps risks months-long delay

17.03.2010 @ 17:13 CET

EU member states are close to agreement on the internal architecture of the bloc's new diplomatic corps, but MEPs are threatening to delay the process if their ideas are brushed aside.

Turkey threatens to kick out Armenian migrants

Today @ 09:28 CET

Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that some 100,000 Armenians working illegally in his country could be expelled "if necessary," as historic tensions over mass killings in World War I bubble up on the EU's fringe.

Iraq commission, UN dismiss MEP's election fraud concerns

15.03.2010 @ 09:27 CET

Iraq's electoral commission lashed out on Saturday at accusations of "widespread fraud" and incompetence from the European Parliament's chair of the chamber's Iraq delegation.

Ukraine gives positive appraisal of new-model EU

15.03.2010 @ 09:21 CET

Ukraine's ambassador to the EU, Andriy Veselovsky, has given an upbeat appraisal of the EU's new institutional set-up

EU's gas pipe to Caspian Sea faces make or break decision

15.03.2010 @ 18:09 CET

Caspian countries need to sign supply contracts this year for Europe's long-planned gas pipeline Nabucco if the project is to go ahead, with a ‘big push' expected from the EU commission and member states involved, one of the stakeholders told this website.

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France and Germany eye top job in EU diplomatic corps

11.03.2010 @ 17:05 CET

French and German diplomats are emerging as leading contenders to become the secretary general of the EU's new External Action Service.

MEPs demand Hamas release Israeli soldier

12.03.2010 @ 09:24 CET

The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution calling on Hamas to immediately release Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured in 2006 by the Palestinian militant group in a cross-border raid.

Georgia flags up problems with new EU structures

12.03.2010 @ 09:30 CET

Georgia cannot "put itself on hold" until the new EU arrangements created by the Lisbon Treaty start to work, but needs to problems with Russia's strong foothold in the two breakaway enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a senior Georgian official has said.

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Despite heavy lobbying, EU parliament endorses Goldstone report

10.03.2010 @ 17:21 CET

Despite an intensive lobbying effort on the part of European Jewish groups, the European Parliament has endorsed the UN's Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza and calls for the prosecution of Israeli officials in the Hague.

New EU states make bid for more diplomatic clout

10.03.2010 @ 17:21 CET

Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have warned that member states could disengage from EU foreign policy unless they get a fair share of power in its new diplomatic corps.

MEPs attack Cuba over human rights abuses

12.03.2010 @ 09:20 CET

MEPs have condemned the recent death of a Cuban dissident hunger striker as "avoidable and cruel", complicating the Spanish EU presidency's attempts at normalising relations with the Caribbean island.

Ashton sets out vision for EU foreign policy

10.03.2010 @ 14:22 CET

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has attempted to draw a line under her stormy first 100 days in office by giving a wide-ranging speech to MEPs outlining her vision for Europe's future foreign policy.

Barroso to visit China next month

10.03.2010 @ 17:09 CET

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and a number other commissioners are set to visit China next month, although the exact timing is still undecided.

Passenger data deal key to catching terrorists, says US

09.03.2010 @ 09:27 CET

A provisional deal allowing American authorities to tap into the data of EU air passengers crossing the Atlantic helped find a third of the "hundreds" of terrorism suspects identified last year, a US official has said, in a bid to convince wary euro-deputies to approve the agreement.

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