BRUSSELS (AFP) - European Union leaders are to gather March 11 for a special summit convened to respond to the crisis in Libya as well as to the turmoil sweeping Arab nations in Europe's Mediterranean backyard.
"In light of developments in the EU's southern neighbourhood, and especially in Libya, I convened an extraordinary European Council (or summit) on 11/03," EU president Herman Van R [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, said in Damascus on Tuesday it is time for the long-dormant EU-Syria association agreement to be signed.
"I came with a clear message that we think the time has come to sign this association agreement," Fule told reporters in the Syrian capital after talks with Foreign Minister Walid Moall [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, said in Damascus on Tuesday it is time for the long-dormant EU-Syria association agreement to be signed.
"I came with a clear message that we think the time has come to sign this association agreement," Fule told reporters in the Syrian capital after talks with Foreign Minister Wal [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, said in Damascus on Tuesday it is time for the long-dormant EU-Syria association agreement to be signed.
"I came with a clear message that we think the time has come to sign this association agreement," Fule told reporters in the Syrian capital after talks with Foreign Minister Walid [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission raised Saturday its humanitarian aid to Yemen to 15 million euros ($19.5 million) to help the country cope with an influx of refugees escaping strife at home and in Africa.
The aid will be directed at providing food, shelter, drinking water, latrines and showers, as well as health services and solid waster management to internally displaced persons [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday called for an immediate meeting of the Mideast peace Quartet to tackle the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The call was made in a statement issued after she met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss ways to bring the two s [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union on Wednesday said in reply to Tehran's invitation to several nations to tour its nuclear sites that it was up to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to carry out the visits.
A spokesman for the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the 27-nation bloc had received a letter of invitation to visit the sites.
"There is a process going o [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU diplomacy chief Catherine Ashton agreed to resume long-stalled nuclear talks between world powers and Iran on December 5, and suggested they be held in Austria or Switzerland.
Ashton's office said she "has agreed to their proposal to begin talks on December 5" and "now looks forward" to meeting Tehran's chief negotiator Saeed Jailili to discuss the country's nuclear programm [...]
NICOSIA (AFP) - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Cyprus is an important ally within the European Union in Damascus' efforts to recover the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and secure regional peace.
"I want to thank the Cyprus government for its stance on the Golan issue. Cyprus is a member of the European Union but the European Union does not vote in favour of returning [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, who represents world powers in nuclear talks with Iran, on Thursday proposed a new round of meetings in Vienna next month.
The EU High Representative for foreign policy, who has come under fire from Tehran for being inactive in efforts to resume the deadlocked talks, suggested they take place over three days in mid-No [...]
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