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BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 8 (Reuters) — The European Commission announced a 500 million euro ($557 million) package of measures on Monday (September 7) to provide relief for farmers stung by slumping prices, triggered partly by the loss of exports to Russia due to EU sanctions against the country. The crisis has triggered a wave of protests which culminated on Monday with nearly 5,000 farmers and more than 1,000 tractors arriving in Brussels, where an emergency […]
(Reuters) — Greek pensioners queued outside banks in Athens once again on Wednesday (July 8) to withdraw their pensions as fears grew that the country’s cash reserves would soon run dry. The scenes have been repeated outside 1,000 bank branches across Greece since banks were closed and capital controls imposed on June 29. Banks were only opened during the last week to pensioners who do not have credit or debit cards. Other people stood in […]
(Reuters) A group of men wearing mudded khaki pants and rubber boots are digging into hard clay with their shovels at the bottom of a pit in Russia’s Kaliningrad region some 1200 km (750 miles) west of Moscow. The men are searching for amber – 50-million-year-old fossilized tree resin. Kaliningrad region, enclaved between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea shore, is home for 90 percent of world’s amber deposits and some of them lay just […]
JUNE 9 (Reuters) – Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says a cash-for-reforms deal is needed quickly, and that it is Europe’s collective duty to find a solution to Greece’s debt crisis. SHOWS: BERLIN, GERMANY (JUNE 8, 2015) (REUTERS – ACCESS ALL) 1. FRENCH CATHEDRAL IN BERLIN’S GENDARMENMARKT SQUARE 2. VARIOUS OF ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTERS 3. GREEK FINANCE MINISTER YANIS VAROUFAKIS ARRIVING AND WALKING UP STEPS 4. VAROUFAKIS ENTERING ROOM AND TAKING SEAT 5. VAROUFAKIS SITTING 6. […]
THE European Union (EU) on 21 April lifted the nation’s Yellow Card fisheries rating, which was slapped onto the Philippines in June 2014 for inadequately addressing illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing or IUUF. “We laud the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and all players for this success, but we should not stop here. We have created the momentum to sustainably transform the country’s fisheries sector,” says World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) President […]
Europe must show flexibility in dealing with the Greek debt crisis not just out of a sense of solidarity but to defend the common interest as well, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday (April 14). “If one falls, it’s the whole system that falls,” she said. Speaking with students ahead of a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in the German town of Luebeck, Mogherini said the rest of the EU should […]
European Union Ambassador Guy Ledoux and EU Member States Ambassadors Gilles Garachon (France), Massimo Roscigno (Italy), Asif Ahmad (United Kingdom), Jaroslav Olša, Jr., (Czech Republic), Luis Calvo (Spain), Chargés d’affaires Pia Heide Salman (Denmark), Deputy Ambassador Ruth Emmerink (Netherlands), Deputy Head of Mission Mr Michael Hasper (Germany) Deputy Head of Mission Mr Spyridon Pagkratis (Greece), Counsellor Mr Michel Villar (France) together with Commissioner Minella C. Alarcon from the Commission A ribbon-cutting ceremony coupled with the […]
The number of foreign fighters joining ISIS have ballooned to 3 thousand according to EU.
A European Union representative praised the goal ASEAN economic integration by 2015 and its positive effects to the EU.
