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EC wants deeper ties to ex-Soviets states

Published: Dec. 4, 2008 at 4:46 PM People who read this also read ... BRUSSELS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The European Union proposed improving relations with six ex-Soviet republics to diminish Russian influence over those nations and...

EU leaders tackle cash crisis

Gordon Brown will host a crunch summit with European leaders to discuss the economic crisis next week, it has emerged. The Prime Minister, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso are due...

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Happy Christmas! And welcome, to Brown's Blunderland

Back in 2001, I published a novel, To Hell In A Handcart, in which part of the action took place at a tacky theme park called Goblin's, somewhere in southern England. Brown's Blunderland: Imagine Gordon, dressed up in his Santa...

ECB cuts rates, following BoE, Swedish Riksbank

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and Governors of EU National Banks, start a meeting of the European Central Bank at the Belgian National Bank in Brussels, Thursday Dec. 4, 2008.Europe's central banks slashed...

Immigration : EU seeks to change the procedure for asylum seekers

The European Union is developing new asylum legislation. The proposals, which need to be agreed to by EU governments and lawmakers to become law, would also aim to make it easier for refugees of the same family to be together.

Trade minister calls for lifting of snus ban

01 Dec 2008. Sweden’s trade minister said on Friday that she wants the EU to lift its ban on the export of Swedish Snus to the rest of the EU. Eva Björling said the ban is discriminatory because cigarettes, cigars and chewable...

WWF calls for moratorium on Arctic exploration {World Wildlife Fund, Oil & Gas}

The World Wildlife Fund, responding to a recent European Commission policy paper on the Arctic, has called for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration and development in the region until the capability has been developed for...

Karen AbuZayd: Gaza needs action, not words

The noble spirit of the universal declaration of human rights is betrayed by a lack of help for Gaza As we approach the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the steadily rising death toll in Gaza...

Gay rights protest at Vatican

Rome, December 4 - Gay rights activists on Thursday began preparations for a protest sit-in at the Vatican, under flak for opposing a proposed French-sponsored United Nations declaration to decriminalise homosexuality in the...

EU trio press Germany for bigger contribution to stimulus plan

Gordon Brown, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and the European commission president José Manuel Barroso are to meet European business leaders and economists in London on Monday, putting pressure on Germany to make a...

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