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EU Heads: We’ll Fight It Out Another Day

  • June 21st, 2008
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

council-building.jpgEuropean leaders ended their Brussels conference on Friday (20.6.08) unsuccessful in settling political problems over their governing Treaty, but declaring confidence in being able to find a way in the coming year.

The 27 heads of government and heads of state have also taken up a package of short term measures, to ease crisis brought on in parts of the European Union, by steeply rising prices for foodstuffs and oil. … Read More »

Relief Package For EU Economy

  • June 20th, 2008
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

barroso-strasbourg-19-june-07.jpgThe European Commission has produced a short-term assistance package to help industries and private citizens hit by sharply rising oil prices and related costs for food and other commodities. … Read More »

Be Partners And Cut Farm Protection, Says Rudd

  • April 3rd, 2008
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

rudd-at-eu-2408.jpgThe Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has proposed a new “partnership with Europe”, and a two-third cuts in farm protection — in a speech at Brussels. … Read More »

EU Join Forces To Fight Fire

  • January 8th, 2008
  • Posted by Sian Graham

greek-fire.jpgThe European Union is working to launch a multinational fire fighting force by the start of the Summer fire season - hoping to head-off a crisis like the devastating fires in Greece last year … Read More »

Africa Crisis: EU And US On Kenya

  • January 4th, 2008
  • Posted by EUEditor

eu-flag-reduced-larger.pngThe European Union has joined the United States in calling for unity talks to end the political crisis in Kenya and has marked off a large part of its humanitarian aid budget to other crisis-ridden African countries. … Read More »