European Union to Require Pet Passports
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Residents of the European Union who want to take their cat, dog or ferret to another EU nation will need special pet passports starting Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 2 (IPS) - The EU is being urged to address the human rights  content of its asylum and immigration policy due to be adopted  later this week.
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European Union ambassadors approved  a last-minute deal clinched on Friday with the United States on  the transfer of personal data on transatlantic air passengers  to U.S. authorities to help combat terrorism, an EU presidency  spokesman said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - The governments of 10 South American countries signed an agreement on Friday to allow their citizens to travel within the region without passports.
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MADRID, Oct 24  (IPS) - The European Union is set to open its doors wide to  qualified immigrants with its blue card system, and at the same  time slam them even more tightly shut to undocumented workers, of  whom there are 10 million in the bloc, including 700,000 in Spain.
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EU states on Friday gave preliminary backing to an accord to supply U.S. agencies with data on transatlantic air passengers for use in terror probes, but some said they needed to clear final reservations in their national parliaments, EU diplomats said.
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Caring, sharing police databases The European Parliament has fashioned a wreath of caveats it hopes will brighten up legislative measures designed to raise biometric borders and erect a network of biometric controls for police across the continent.â¦
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Food labelling should be standardised across Europe, the Commission says.
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The European Commission is urged to lift the ban on using animal remains in farm feed.
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European leaders celebrated the end of border controls along a line stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic on Friday as many of the European Union's newest members joined the EU's passport-free zone.
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Concerns about the safety of meat and milk from cloned animals prompt the EU to promise to consult consumers.
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The European Union reached &quot;understanding&quot; Friday on how to transfer personal information about passengers flying to the United States for use in Washington&#39;s &quot;war on terror&quot;, EU officials said.
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The EU considers introducing a donor card to address a shortage of organs for transplant in member states.
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Britain considers restrictions for Bulgarian and Romanian workers as the nations prepare to join the EU.
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Europe's papers look ahead to today's signing of the new EU constitution in Rome
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The European Union reached an agreement with the United States Friday on the sharing of data on trans-Atlantic air passengers which Washington says is needed to help fight terrorism, diplomats said.
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The European Commission has approved a financial package of â¬188m (US$233.1m) to fight animal diseases in the EU in 2005. The EU budget for 2005 will tackle transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE