France and Spain object to plan for EU transit camp
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France and Spain called for a rethink yesterday on radical German-Italian plans to set up a European Union transit camp in north Africa for refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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Associated Press Worldstream December 12, 2004 Sunday 1:19 PM Eastern Time French politicians oppose Turkey's EU membership PARIS France's centrist leader said in an interview published Sunday that Turkey has ...
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Plans by the European Commission to close some areas round British coasts to cod fishing will be opposed by the UK.
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Germany and France backed away from their call to set a firm deadline for Turkey over its troubled EU candidacy as they warned Syria not to destabilise Lebanon.
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Spain&#39;s prime minister promised a tough line Sunday against armed Basque separatist group ETA as a bomb went off on a motorway and a day after four ETA suspects were arrested in France.
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Hundreds of cities and towns in Europe restricted cars Wednesday as officials urged commuters to take public transportation, bicycles or walk instead.
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EU officials fail to agree on a list of countries from where asylum applications will be presumed to be unfounded.
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Incoming EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso refused on Thursday to bow to socialist demands to ditch justice chief Rocco Buttiglione after the Italian apologised for calling homosexuality a sin.
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Jewish groups have objected to a French government decision to allow the television arm of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas to continue broadcasting to Europe using a French satellite operator.
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FLORENCE, Italy  - France and Spain moved Monday  to sink a controversial Italian-German plan to create holding  centers in North Africa for would-be refugees.
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Madrid (pts) - The Spanish Olympic bid for 2012 have made an official protest to the International Olympic Committeeâs (IOC), accusing Paris 2012 organisers of illegally using French embassies to promote the city.
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EU summit urged to agree to independence plan amid fear that Russia would oppose new UN mandate
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Twenty European Union countries are opposed to compromise proposals on agriculture floated by a World Trade Organisation mediator as part of a bid to rescue global trade talks, France said on Monday.
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Interior ministers from the five largest Western European states said Monday they had agreed to set up a common &quot;watch list&quot; of terrorist suspects but they remained split over a controversial plan to create migrant holding centers in Africa.
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GIRONA, Spain, Nov. 16 -- Spain, France and Italy agreed on Thursday to work on a joint plan to try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling for a total cease-fire and suggesting they could send truce monitors to the area.
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Illegal immigration continues to be a sore spot in relations between EU member states as ministers from southern Europe prepare to meet for a brainstorming session on the topic Friday in Madrid.Comment
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The French and German leaders avoid setting a deadline for Turkey to comply with EU demands.