EU foreign policy chief in Turkey, seeking support against ‘Islamic State’
The foreign affairs chief of the European Union is leading a high-level delegation to Turkey to discuss Ankara’s role in
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Provisional deal on EU budget reached
A provisional agreement on the European Union budget for 2015 and the means to settle this year’s most urgent unpaid
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Merkel: Russia meddling with countries’ EU aspirations
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is bitterly accusing Russia of trying to meddle with the desires of eastern European countries to
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Ukraine’s power plants working at minimum capacity because of coal shortage
Ukraine is obviously short of coal, the country’s newly-appointed Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told a December 5 news conference in Kyiv. There
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Moldova’s pro-EU parties win parliamentary majority, opposition to challenge results
Moldova’s three parties that campaigned on a promise of continued close ties with the European Union have won 55 of
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Ukraine announces December 9 truce
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has ordered a new cease-fire next week, as part of a push to end months of
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Turkey, Greece to tackle energy dispute
Turkey’s prime minister is set to visit Greece on Friday as tensions swell among regional neighbors over energy deposits in
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EU will support Bulgaria in South Stream dispute – EC President Juncker
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on December 4 that the EU will stand with Bulgaria on the issue of
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Russia’s Putin defends annexation of Crimea
Russian president Vladimir Putin has defended his country’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and accused the West of using the
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