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Ageing Europe needs migrants: EU’s Mogherini
Feb 09, 2017 04:38A senior European Union (EU) official says Europe has an ageing population and needs to keep its borders open to migrants if it seeks to sustain its economic progress.
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Assad: European states harm own interests by supporting terrorists in Syria
Feb 06, 2017 16:42Syrian President Basher al-Assad, in a meeting with a European delegation in Damascus, has slammed European governments for adopting unrealistic and wrong policies toward Syria over the past years, saying the approach has resulted in Europe’s isolation from international efforts meant to resolve the crisis in the Arab country.
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EU's top diplomats support prolonged sanctions on Russia
Feb 06, 2017 13:37European Union foreign ministers have expressed their full support for keeping sanctions on Russia over Moscow’s alleged role in the crisis in eastern Ukraine, saying new US President Donald Trump’s positive view of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would not deter the EU states from keeping pressure on Russia.
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Party leaders in EU want Trump’s possible EU envoy rejected
Feb 03, 2017 08:33Party leaders at the European Parliament have called on the European Union to reject US President Donald Trump’s likely pick for ambassador to the EU, Ted Malloch, whose mission they said is to “disrupt or dissolve” the 28-member bloc.
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Israel’s new settler units make so-called two-state solution impossible: EU
Feb 02, 2017 03:54The European Union (EU)’s High Representative for Security and Foreign Policy, Federica Mogherini, has warned that the new wave of Israeli illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank territories mark a “very worrying trend” that will jeopardize the so-called two-state solution to the decades-long conflict in the region.
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Iran starts sending own oil tankers to Europe
Jan 27, 2017 10:47Reports say Iran has sent at least two supertankers to Europe in what appears to be the country’s first direct shipment of crude oil to EU clients after the removal of sanctions last year.
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Eurozone considers Trump ‘a risk’
Jan 27, 2017 05:48The eurozone’s top official has voiced concern about US President Donald Trump’s policies but said that soul-searching as a result of the potential loss of American partnership could lead to the strengthening of the countries using the single currency, Press TV reports.
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EU urges members to end refugee deadlock
Jan 26, 2017 17:35The European Union has called on member states to do more to end a deadlock on how they should share the burden of Europe’s historic refugee exodus as the continent is struggling to cope with increasing arrivals.
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Europe preparing for biggest Iran oil imports
Jan 26, 2017 09:12Market figures show Europe is preparing to import the highest amount of crude oil from Iran in five years this month.
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Angry dairy farmers spray EU headquarters with milk powder
Jan 23, 2017 11:51The headquarters of the European Union has been turned into white, after dairy farmers angry with the crisis in their sector sprayed the building in the Belgian capital with milk powder.