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EUROPEN UNION

Syria on table as migration hawks hold pre-EU summit talks

Since Assad’s ouster a string of EU governments have suspended processing asylum requests from Syria BRUSSELS: A group of EU immigration hawks held talks ahead...

EU launches diplomatic contacts with new Syrian government — foreign policy chief

According to Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign ministers will discuss how and "on what level" the EU will engage with the new Syrian authorities and what the EU can offer them if...

EU foreign ministers to gather in Brussels for their last meeting this year

As the EU representative said, the foreign ministers will approve the 15th package of sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, as well as a "new blacklist" for Moscow's alleged "hybrid...

EU Commissioner for Justice calls on members states to step up assistance to Ukraine

Didier Reynders stressed that EU countries provided Ukraine with 45.5 billion euros for military needs and supplied "a wide variety of arms" from their stockpiles, including F-16 aircraft BRUSSELS...

European Commission gives ‘positive assessment’ for payment of 4.1 bln euros to Kiev

The commission concluded that Ukraine had satisfactorily fulfilled the nine agreed reform indicators for this payment BRUSSELS - The European Commission has given "a positive assessment" for the second...

Chancellor Scholz ready to hold talks with Putin soon, but only if partners agree

It involves many contacts and negotiations with many people, he said BERLIN, November 11 - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has confirmed his intention to hold a telephone conversation...

EU’s Borrell in Kyiv to reassure Ukraine of Europe’s backing

The message is a clear one — the Europeans will continue to support Ukraine’ Europe together has spent around $125 billion on supporting Ukraine since Russia’s 2022...

European leaders seek to chart a common future at summit but all eyes are...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Dozens of European leaders will be gingerly seeking to chart a more common future during a one-day summit in Hungary’s capital on Thursday. Yet despite myriad economic challenges...

EU’s Borrell visits South Korea amid alarm over North Korean troops in Russia

Borrell arrived in South Korea after a trip to Japan and visited the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas Borrell is visiting South Korea to...

EU chief due in Balkans to discuss enlargement

Von der Leyen’s fourth visit to the region is an “important signal” that European Union enlargement is being discussed again, Heather Grabbe, an expert at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, told...