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European Commission On Kenyan Democratic Elections
Saturday, 5 January 2008, 2:29 pm | European Commission
The European Commission notes with satisfaction the high turn-out at the elections, which shows that Kenyians are eager to consolidate and participate in the democratic process. Kenyans have clearly wanted to use their vote to have their say. More >>
EU aid to Pacific not conditional on trade
Friday, 3 August 2007, 12:41 am | European Commission
The European Commission wishes to correct the serious misrepresentations which have been made of the EU's position on the link between its planned development funding to the Pacific and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) now being negotiated ... More >>
MG articles nominated for European award
Friday, 6 April 2007, 2:17 pm | European Commission
European Commission commends articles defending human rights and democracy for Muslims New Delhi: Three articles published in The Milli Gazette (MG) print and online editions have been nominated for the European Commission's prestigious media award "Lorenzo ... More >>
Fiji: Commission proposes opening of consultations
Friday, 19 January 2007, 9:06 am | European Commission
The Commission today proposed the opening of Consultations under Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement, the Agreement between the EU and 76 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. This move reflects continuing concern about the situation in Fiji ... More >>
Fiji Coup Condemned
Friday, 8 December 2006, 4:46 pm | European Commission
On 5 December 2006 the commander of Fiji's military has declared that he has taken over the government of Fiji. Louis Michel, Commissioner for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid firmly condemns this unlawful act by Fiji's military. He calls ... More >>
Mandelson on Suspension of Doha
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 4:06 pm | European Commission
"I want to express the profound disappointment and sadness of the member states of the European Union, and of Mariann and myself, that the world trade talks are having to be suspended today. More >>
Strategy to strengthen partnership with Pacific
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 11:37 am | European Commission
The European Commission yesterday adopted a proposal to deepen the EU’s relations with the Pacific Islands, in particular the 15 Pacific ACP countries(1). This is the first formal strategy in 30 years of EU-Pacific relations, and it aims to strengthen ... More >>
EU on track to reach Kyoto targets
Monday, 5 December 2005, 5:11 pm | European Commission
The European Union is well on its way to achieving its Kyoto Protocol targets for substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. More >>
‘Major milestone’ on asylum in the EU
Friday, 2 December 2005, 2:14 pm | European Commission
With the adoption of the Asylum Procedures Directive at today’s Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels, the EU completed the first phase of the Common European Asylum System. This Directive, along with the other legislative instruments on asylum ... More >>
Climate change: EU on track to reach Kyoto targets
Friday, 2 December 2005, 2:12 pm | European Commission
The EU is well on its way to achieve its Kyoto Protocol targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases on the basis of the policies, measures and third-country projects already implemented or planned. This is the conclusion of a Commission report demonstrating ... More >>
EU & Ukraine sign an agreement on GALILEO
Friday, 2 December 2005, 2:09 pm | European Commission
Government leaders meeting in the EU-Ukraine Summit have decided to extend the Ukraine-EU partnership to cover Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme GALILEO. The agreement was signed today in Kiev by Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov for Ukraine, by Prime ... More >>
European Commissioner visits Gaza Strip
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 2:45 pm | European Commission
Comments from Commissioner Michel during his visit to the Khan Yunis refugee camp and the Rafah Border Crossing More >>
Economic Partnership Agreement EU & Central Africa
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 2:41 pm | European Commission
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson met with Central African Ministers on the 25th November in Brussels to agree on the next phase of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations between the two regions. Ministers agreed to launch the next ... More >>
European solidarity with the Palestinian people
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 2:37 pm | European Commission
The European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, is visiting the Palestinian Territories today to meet civilians affected by the conflict and reaffirm European solidarity, which is reflected by significant financial support ... More >>
World AIDS Day 2005: a resurging epidemic
Monday, 28 November 2005, 10:37 am | European Commission
Young people across the European Union and neighbouring countries are among the main victims of a resurgence of the deadly HIV/AIDS epidemic. In the run-up to World AIDS Day on 1 December, freshly released data from the EU-funded “Euro-HIV” network ... More >>
EU responses to terrorist threat & its effects
Friday, 25 November 2005, 7:13 pm | European Commission
EU JHA Committees Conference on "responses to the threat of terrorism and effects on communities" More >>
EU: lack of public access to documents on defence
Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 5:34 pm | European Commission
The European Ombudsman, P.Nikiforos Diamandouros, has criticised the Council of the European Union for failing to deal with a request for public access to documents properly and carefully. This follows an inquiry which revealed that, contrary to ... More >>
Multilingualism in the EU: call for action
Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 5:31 pm | European Commission
Multilingualism in the EU: the European Commission calls for action to promote languages and launches a new Web portal More >>
EC moves to to offer a complete untying of aid
Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 7:15 pm | European Commission
Commission welcomes the support by the EU Council and the Parliament to offer a complete untying of aid More >>
EU Observation Mission for Palestinian Election
Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 7:10 pm | European Commission
The European Commission will deploy in mid December an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council, currently scheduled for 25 January 2006. The EU EOM, will assess whether the electoral process is conducted ... More >>
