EU countries agree on Syria sanctions
Updated: 2011-04-29 20:04:09
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS EU countries agree on Syria sanctions EU council working room in Brussels . Lists of names will be prepared in the run-up to 12 May Photo : consilium.europa.au ANDREW RETTMAN 29.04.2011 21:04 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS Six weeks of violence and some 500 deaths later , EU countries on Friday 30 April agreed to impose a broad array of sanctions against . Syria The measures are to include a travel ban and asset freeze on members of President Bashar al-Assad's regime considered respsonsible for the crackdown , but not the president's family or officials' family . members Print Comment article EU countries also agreed to stop arms exports and exports of non-lethal equipment which can be used for internal repression . The EU
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS EU chiefs snubbed by UK royals LEIGH PHILLIPS 27.04.2011 17:43 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS All three EU presidents and the bloc's foreign policy chief one of the most senior UK dignitaries have been snubbed by the British royal . family While the great and the good from around the world have been invited to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday , not a single European Union representative has been sent a gold-embossed wedding request to attend the . occasion The wedding is not a state occasion . It is a private wedding , with invitees mostly with some sort of connection to the couple , quot said a spokesperson Photo : Jean Mottershead Print Comment article European Commission President Jose Manuel
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS Lukashenko hurls vulgarities at Barroso ANDREW RETTMAN 27.04.2011 09:29 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has called European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso a bastard after being snubbed over a Chernobyl event in Ukraine . Lukashenko used the word kozyol literally meaning goat' but with a more vulgar force in colloquial usage while speaking to press in Narovlya , near the Chernobyl site in southern Belarus , on the 25th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe on Tuesday 26 April Lukashenko : became an EU pariah once again in January due to his treatment of opposition Photo : president.gov.by Print Comment article Asked why he was not attending anniversary solemnities in Kiev ,
, NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS Greek , Portuguese deficits overshoot targets LEIGH PHILLIPS 27.04.2011 09:28 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS Despite , or perhaps because , of draconian austerity measures being imposed in Europe's periphery , budget deficit numbers in these countries are only worsening , new data has . revealed Greece and Portugal saw their budget deficits revised sharply above their promised targets , according to figures released by the EU's official statistical agency , Eurostat , on Tuesday 26 April Greece is struggling to meet its deficit targets Photo : wikipedia Print Comment article Athens' budget deficit for 2010 was adjusted upwards to 10.5 percent of GDP , up from the previous estimate of 9.6 percent . Meanwhile , the level of
When you live inside the EU bubble, you sometimes forget that there is a world outside the EU. This is why holidays are great, because they allow you to escape all the ordinary procedures, discover a new country, and get a better understanding of its political landscape. In mid-April some representatives of The Lobby decided to spend [...]
Eh bien, je jamais. The French government is demanding less European integration.
President Sarkozy, furious at the sight of Tunisian migrants being waved through by Italian carabinieri, and uncomfortably aware that opinion polls put him behind the Front Nationale’s Marine Le Pen, is demanding that the Schengen Treaty be revised to allow countries to reimpose frontier [...]
, Home News News While Member States get austerity , EU Commission stuffs its face News While Member States get austerity , EU Commission stuffs its face 23 04 2011 21:12 webmaster 93 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Marta Andreasen MEP In the Budget Committee this morning Commissioner Lewandowski was wheeled out to defend the indefensible a rise in the European Commission's budget . nbsp Using the 99p tactic beloved of supermarkets to mask a rise of almost 5 per cent , he didn't even have the good grace to look embarrassed or . sheepish There is to my mind something fundamentally wrong when an EU institution preaches the need for austerity to every member state and tries to strait jacket their budgets citing the financial crisis , yet asks for a rise for itself . It is as if the European
Blogging, says my mate James Delingpole, is “addictive, expensive, energy-sapping and injurious to health”. The poor chap has been told by his doctor to take things easy, and is enjoying a rest cure by the sea. Not many bloggers have had their health broken by their pursuit; but I suspect that every single one will [...]
The campaign against the EU budget hike is spreading across our local authorities. Since I last blogged on the subject, Bromley, Central Bedfordshire, Dover, Hull, Mid Devon, Rother, Rushmoor, Three Rivers and Torbay have formally asked their local MPs to oppose any rise in Britain’s contributions. Harrow and Maidstone have tabled similar motions for their [...]
NEWS OPINION BLOGS AGENDA CONFERENCES BOOKS VIDEOS TWITTER HEADLINE NEWS EU 2012 budget request sets scene for fresh battle ANDREW WILLIS 20.04.2011 17:40 CET EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS The European Commission has asked for a 4.9 percent increase in next year's EU budget , setting the scene for a fresh game of tug-of-war between EU member states and the European Parliament . Presenting the commission's 2012 draft proposal to journalists in Brussels on Wednesday 20 April EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski said the raise was necessary to meet already-made spending commitments , particularly in the area of EU regional policy . Squabbling between MEPs and EU member states last year almost left the Union without a budget Photo : EUobserver Print Comment article He predicted the forthcoming
Brussels, 20th April – As we prepare for the successive bank holiday weekends and we continue to be blessed with unseasonably fair weather, I would like to wish everyone in the East of England a very Happy Easter. This year the Easter period is doubly special as we in the UK are preparing for the [...]
There was a time when I’d have disapproved of the Prime Minister’s desire, expressed on the Today programme this morning, to alter the rules of royal succession. My teenage self would would have harrumphed that the monarchy was not some Guardian-advertised public sector appointment, subject to anti-discrimination legislation. The preference for male heirs might indeed [...]
1. We won’t see the money again. It is becoming increasingly clear that Greece will renege on its debts. International loans are always arranged so that the IMF gets its money back first, which means that the EU will take the hit. Portugal’s debt is growing faster than its GDP, making a default almost inevitable.
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Listen out for a throwaway phrase from BBC correspondents: “minority parties such as UKIP and the BNP”. On past form, I reckon we’ll be hearing it quite often. What we won’t be hearing very much is “minority parties such as the Greens and the BNP”. Which is odd, really, because, in psephological terms, the Greens [...]
The Cambridge News Community Awards Young Achiever of the Year, Alexia Sloane aged 10, visited the European Parliament earlier this week as part of her prize. Announced via a recorded video message at last year’s award ceremony, Conservative East of England MEP, Robert Sturdy, invited Alexia to Brussels to spend the day working with real interpreters in the [...]