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EU leaders invite Trump to Brussels
Juncker and Tusk invite Trump to EU capital “at earliest convenience”, mention climate change and Ukraine among top issues. …read more Source:...
Dutch MPs extend deadline on Ukraine deal
Parliament gives prime minister Mark Rutte until mid-December to find a compromise that takes into account voters’ rejection of an EU-Ukraine trade deal. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU adds six Crimea MPs to sanctions list
The European Union has added six members of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, to the blacklist of people who are “undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence”. All six were elected last September as representatives from Crimea, the Ukrainian region that was annexed by Russia in 2014. Those on...
[Ticker] Georgia’s Saakashvili quits Ukraine position
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili resigned as governor of the Ukrainian region of Odessa after 18 months. The controversial pro-Western politician accused Kiev of not being serious about tackling corruption, and hindering his efforts to reform. Saakashvili was appointed in May 2015. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Dutch activists close in on Ceta referendum
Activists in the Netherlands have gathered almost two-thirds of the signatures needed to initiate a referendum on Europe’s free trade deal with Canada, Ceta. Under Dutch law, 300,000 signatures are enough to trigger an advisory vote on any bill passed by parliament. On Monday morning, 190,000 people had signed the Ceta petition. A Dutch...
Dutch PM asks opposition’s help on Ukraine agremeent
Mark Rutte is facing a parliament imposed deadline of 1 November to find a response to the Dutch “No” in a referendum on an EU-Ukraine trade deal. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Migration and security top Germany’s EU agenda
Tackling the migration crisis and improving security should be Europe’s main priorities in coming years, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaueble said on Friday in Bratislava. “We have to make sure our external borders are protected … we must do more to stabilise our neighbouring regions, including Ukraine,” he said at...
[Ticker] EU states issue record number of residence permits
EU states issued a record number, 2.6 million first residence permits, to non-EU nationals in 2015, according to the EU’s statistical office Eurostat. The top beneficiaries were people from Ukraine and the United States. The UK issued the most permits, with a total of 633,000 or about 24.3% of the total in the EU. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Yazidi activists scoop EU rights prize
Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Ali Bashar, two women from the Yazidi minority in Syria, who were made into sex slaves by the jihadist group Islamic State, and who now campaign for Yazidi rights, have won this year’s European Parliament Sakharov prize for freedom of thought. Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader-in-exile of Crimea’s Tatar...
Italy shields Russia from EU sanctions threat
Italy has shielded Russia and Syria from a threat of sanctions, amid warnings by some leaders that Moscow was trying to “weaken” the EU. …read more Source:...
