Friday, 11 December 2015 13:06
EU meeting to discuss UK proposals
On Thursday and Friday next week a meeting of the EU Council will be held in Brussels. David Cameron was warned that a central demand to curb immigration might be asking too much. Donald Tusk, president…
Friday, 11 December 2015 13:04
EU says IS has chemical and biological weapons
Islamic State is armed with biological and chemical weapons but Europeans don’t take the existential threat seriously, according to a European Union parliament document. Also, Israeli experts say IS is armed with weapons forbidden by the…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:05
Brussels: Christians ‘the most persecuted’
In a high-level meeting on religious persecution in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament (EP) said that Europe cannot afford to continue ignoring the fate of Christians, who are clearly the most persecuted group in…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:04
Russia accuses Erdogan of buying oil from IS
Russia's deputy defence minister, Anatoly Antonov, has accused the family of Turkish President Erdogan of being directly involved in the trade of oil with IS. Mr. Antonov said Turkey was the biggest buyer of ‘stolen’ oil…
Friday, 27 November 2015 18:23
Climate Change Summit in Paris
The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Kyoto Protocol will take place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris. The preliminary list of speakers (139) includes all the leaders who have registered to…
Friday, 27 November 2015 18:23
MEPs strongly criticise Bahrain's human rights record
Following the release of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report assessing the human rights situation in Bahrain, MEPs are calling for an urgent rethink of relations between the EU and the Gulf states. Ten detainees interviewed…