No EU agreement to normalise relations with Cuba
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EU member states have failed to agree to normalise ties with Cuba, opting instead to extend a suspension of sanctions on the communist Caribbean island, European diplomats said Thursday.
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MADRID, Spain, NOV. 24, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- The papal nuncio to the European Parliament doesn't have any reason "from the religious viewpoint" to say no to the Constitutional Treaty, even though the document ...
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Relations between Bucharest and Kyiv have been strained for some time over their inability to reach an agreement concerning the delimitation of the continental shelf around Serpents Island (Zmiyinyy Ostrov) in ...
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A political row erupted after Spain and the Netherlands vehemently protested Cuba's refusal to grant entry to three parliamentary deputies who had arrived in Havana to meet Cuban dissidents.
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HAVANA, Nov 30 (IPS) - The release of five dissidents over the past two  days  could pave the way for an eventual patching up of ties  between Cuba and the  European Union, say diplomats and  activists.
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The European Union and the four-nation South American Mercosur customs bloc failed to reach a deal to create the world's biggest free-trade area, negotiators said late on Wednesday.
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Cuba will not send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago because of Fidel Castro's fears of future defections.
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Spain and Cuba said on Thursday they had  held talks on human rights, an issue that led to a diplomatic  freeze with the European Union, but did not say whether they  discussed 59 dissidents held in prison in Cuba.
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MESEBERG, Germany  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel failed on Saturday to persuade Poland to drop its threat to veto talks on a new European Union treaty.
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The Spanish government rejected out of hand a new peace proposal made Sunday by Basque separatists because it did not renounce violence, reports the Scotsman.
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European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to invite a Cuban delegation to Brussels to explore the scope for a gradual thaw in ties but chose not to end a four-year-old freeze in contacts.
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HAVANA -- Cuba said yesterday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.
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MADRID : A political row erupted after Spain and the Netherlands vehemently protested Cuba's refusal to grant entry to three parliamentary deputies who had arrived in Havana to meet Cuban dissidents.
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Cuba condemned the decision by outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso to set free four notorious terrorists of Cuban origin and announced that it was breaking diplomatic relations with the Central American country indefinitely.
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Talks in Berlin between Iran and the EU end without agreement on resolving the Iranian nuclear dispute.
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Negotiators from the European Union and South America's four-nation Mercosur trade bloc on Wednesday failed to reach agreement on a deal to keep alive their attempt to create the world's biggest free-trade area.
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The EU welcomes Havana's ending of its "cocktail wars" with EU countries, but says more must be done.