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EU, Arab world seek cooperation on green energy
Brussels - The European Union and the governments of Egypt, Israel, Syria and much of the Arab world kicked off discussions Friday on the launch of a common green energy market. The occasion was a conference in Brussels organized by the European Comm...
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EU confirms anti-trust raids on pharma firms
Brussels - The European Union has raided a number of pharmaceutical firms in Europe, suspecting them of breaking EU competition rules, officials in Brussels said Tuesday. On 6 October, European Commission officials started surprise inspections at th...
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ANALYSIS:Bid or bluff as the EU plays climate-change poker?
Luxembourg - If you want poker players to show you their cards, you have to put your own hand on the table first. That was the philosophy which led the European Union on Wednesday to publish a near-complete set of demands for United Nations climate-c...
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Brussels seeks end to EU 'asylum lottery'
Brussels - Officials in Brussels on Wednesday called for common and fairer asylum rules within the European Union in order to offer refugees a higher level of protection. The proposals put forward by the bloc's top justice official, Jacques Barrot, a...
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BACKGROUND:The EU's (partial)recipe for Copenhagen
Luxembourg - These are the main points which European Union environment ministers think should be covered by a deal on fighting climate change in Copenhagen in December:TARGETS: global warming should be limited to 2 degrees centigrade above pre-indus...
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Pirates hijack container ship in Indian Ocean
Brussels/London - A Singapore-flagged cargo ship has been hijacked in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said Thursday. During the early morning of October 15 2009, a Singapore-flagged container ship, Kota Wajar, was hijacked in the In...
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EXTRA:EU approves watered-down proposals on climate change
Luxembourg - European Union environment ministers on Wednesday agreed a watered-down negotiating position ahead of international talks on fighting climate change by putting off a key debate on billions of euros in emissions permits, diplomats said. T...
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Afghan expulsions must follow rules, EU's Barrot says
Brussels - European Union member states must follow strict rules if they want to forcibly repatriate illegal Afghan immigrants, the EU's justice commissioner said Thursday. Jacques Barrot was speaking a day after France controversially flew three ill...
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Baltic candidates emerge for EU presidency
Riga - One former and one current president from two Baltic states emerged Wednesday as potential candidates for the new position of European Union president. Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis gave tacit support to the candidacy of former Pre...
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Influx of illegal immigrants declines in EU - Summary
Madrid - Illegal border crossings into the European Union declined by 20 per cent in the first half of 2009, the EU border control agency Frontex said Wednesday. Speaking in Spain's capital Madrid, Frontex executive director Gil Arias attributed the ...
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BACKGROUND: The EU's reforming Lisbon Treaty
Brussels- The Treaty of Lisbon, whose entry into force faces a final obstacle in Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republic's eurosceptic president, is the fourth major reform of the European Union since its creation by the Treaty of Rome, in 1957. The treaty'...
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PREVIEW: EU limps towards difficult summit
Brussels - The European Union's 27 leaders head for a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday with two of their most cherished projects - institutional reform and climate change - in disarr...
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EU patrols cut illegal immigration to Spain
Madrid - European Union sea patrols have helped to drastically reduce the numbers of would-be immigrants crossing from Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, a representative of the EU border patrol agency Frontex said Wednesday. For the first time, more ...
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Brussels proposes weakened targets for van CO2 emissions
Brussels - The European Union's executive on Wednesday proposed a weakened set of laws limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from vans in a last-ditch bid to tackle the issue before its mandate expires at the end of the month. The level of ambition is n...
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