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The European Commission is offering a package of incentives to the Southern Mediterranean countries, including loosening visa restrictions, greater support for civil society and closer economic cooperation, to encourage democratic [...]

French EPP MEPs Philippe Juvin and Constance Le Grip accuse the European Commission of discriminating against Christians by ignoring Christmas and other religious holidays. The two MEPs call on DG [...]

The European Commission has signed an agreement for a contribution of 2 million with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to support the federation's Disaster Relief [...]

The European Parliament urges the European Commission to reconsider the present system of total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas and 'its usefulness given the present fishing restrictions'. On 13 January, [...]

The European Parliament urges the European Commission to reconsider the present system of total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas and 'its usefulness given the present fishing restrictions'. On 13 January, [...]

The European Parliament adopted, on 27 September, a report on equality between women and men in the EU in 2007 which takes as its starting point the fourth annual European [...]

One month after the catastrophe, the humanitarian consequences of the 15 August earthquake in Peru are far beyond what was initially estimated and the affected people still depend entirely on [...]

The European Commission intends to propose on 29 June the establishment of joint flexicurity principles with the aim of promoting more employment and better quality thanks to a combination of [...]

The EU Council adopted on 25 June without debate a decision establishing the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals for the period 2007 to 2013 as part of [...]

On 26 June - the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner said that, under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human [...]

The European Commission wants to invest in research on information and communication technologies (ICT) designed to serve the elderly. As announced in Europolitics 3326, the Commission launched, on 14 June, [...]

The European Commission's proposal for a new directive on working time, issued in 2004 and modified in 2005, has lived out its life. If discussions are to continue, they must [...]

The European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency became fully operational on 1 March and has already started work as the successor to the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). [...]

In the face of rising concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where the population is lacking everything from food to medicines, school equipment and especially money (not least because [...]

OWM Azivo, a Dutch healthcare insurance body with its headquarters in The Hague, has decided to challenge a Commission decision to approve the new Dutch healthcare insurance scheme, which notably [...]

The European Commission reviewed the state of play on 28 April regarding free movement for workers from the eight new East European member states in the EU15 and in European [...]

The European Commission announced on November 22 that it was sending emergency humanitarian aid of euro 2 million to check the spread of a serious outbreak of yellow fever in [...]

The European Commission's DG Transport and Energy (DG TREN) intends to update the 2001 study on the social dimension of liberalisation of energy markets in the EU, Energy Commissioner Andris [...]

The Islamic, conservative Justice and Development Party in office since 2003 has been plagued by desertions and is the target of criticism not only from the opposition benches, but also [...]

The European Commission announced on October 15 Euro 500,000 in emergency aid to mitigate the effects of Hurricane Iris, a small but powerful category 4 hurricane which struck southern Belize [...]

The European Commission announced on 6 April that it had approved humanitarian aid worth Euro 2 million to help the victims of serious drought conditions in Sudan. Food is running [...]