EU discusses Palestinian boycott
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EU foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the new deal on a Palestinian national unity government.
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European Union foreign ministers reaffirmed Saturday that they would push for UN sanctions against Sudan, including a possible oil boycott, if the country does not move to end the fighting in its western Darfur region.
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The European Union announced yesterday that it is discussing lifting the sanctions partially from Libya and added it inclined towards alleviating the weapons embargo to this country.
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"We will work to secure all basic needs for our people in Gaza"  The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid.The EU traditionally has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor, and the reinstatement of aid, cut off after the Islamic Hamas movement took power 15 months ago, could signal the beginning of the end to a crippling international boycott. Read more
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EU foreign ministers met on Monday for crucial talks on how to penalize Turkey for failing to normalize trade with Cyprus at the start of a week that could derail Ankara's troubled entry negotiations with the bloc.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he met recently with Islamic militant group Hamas, which the EU has blacklisted as a terrorist organization.
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The European Commission looks set to advise that Turkey's EU membership talks be partly suspended.
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Israel could be a future member of the European Union, a top EU official suggested Tuesday.
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The European Union called Thursday for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, responding to recent comments by the Israeli prime minister that have been interpreted as acknowledging his country has a nuclear arsenal.
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Germany, president of the European Union, urged a new Palestinian unity government on Friday to comply with the three conditions set out by the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators.
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The European Union on Monday resumed aid to the Palestinian finance ministry for the first time since the West launched an economic boycott of the government more than a year ago.
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Britain's largest union of university and college teachers voted to hold talks on an academic boycott of Israel, a spokesman said Thursday.
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The debate by the Israeli parliament on whether to pull out of the Gaza Strip is the focus of much editorial comment in Europe Tuesday, while other European papers look at the high price of oil.
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Israeli groups are planning to launch a counter-boycott of Britain in response to a series of boycotts proposed by British unions and associations.
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Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema has hinted that the European Union could be forced to withdraw its monitors deployed along the Egypt-Gaza border should the crossing remain closed.
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President Bush is expected to call on Europe to assume a key role in helping the new Palestinian leadership build and support institutions and prepare for negotiations
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The European Union has agreed to resume direct financial aid to the Palestinian Authority but it is still working out how to transfer the money.