France, Spain Veto Controversial Migrant Camp Plan
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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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FLORENCE: Interior ministers from France and Spain on Monday shot down a German proposal to set up transit camps in North Africa to process asylum seekers before they reach Europe.
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A European proposal to block access to bomb-making instructions is unworkable, sites say.
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EU finance ministers gave a cold shoulder to France's contentious proposal to cut off development funds for EU newcomers unless they agree to stop luring western companies, and jobs, with low tax rates.
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SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands European Union leaders clashed Friday over a plan to set up camps in North Africa to process immigrants and asylum seekers to help stop the flow of illegal migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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France prevents the EU starting membership talks with Turkey on economic and monetary policy.
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PARIS - France vowed Monday to press ahead with a controversial law banning Islamic head scarves in schools, despite demands by militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq that Paris revoke the legislation.    Government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope told Canal Plus television France would not compromise its values to win the release of the journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot...
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France, Sweden and Belgium shot down a German proposal to set up European Union refugee processing centres in North Africa, arguing that the idea would do more harm than good.
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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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President Nicolas  Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would veto any World Trade  Organisation (WTO) agreement that did not satisfy its  requirements on agriculture.
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HAVANA/MADRID  - Cuba said on Saturday it barred  entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support  dissidents, setting back Spain's campaign to mend frosty ties  between the EU bloc and the communist-ruled island.
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House Republican leaders yesterday backed off a controversial proposal to allow deportation of foreign terrorism suspects to countries that practice torture, as lawmakers struggled to complete
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A plan by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.
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Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told the leader of the Basque country he refused to negotiate on a controversial plan to loosen ties between the restless region and the central Spanish government in Madrid.
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The UN Security Council is set to back a French plan to send UN and EU forces to protect refugees from Darfur.
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With hundreds crossing the Mediterranean, European leaders have been sparring over a plan to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
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Poland blocks plans to hold a European day against the death penalty, the EU's Portuguese presidency says