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The £5billion European Peace Facility will see the bloc gain powers for the first time to send military aid and equipment to foreign conflicts. The fund, announced by Josep Borrell, High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy this week, is set to increase the EU s role in international conflicts
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EDITOR’s TAKE
Brussels has asserted its autonomy from Washington, at least when it comes to its relations with Beijing. But some around town are questioning whether it has kept its credibility.
In December, the EU and China concluded negotiations on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), their first bilateral investment treaty, after seven years of negotiations.
Brussels says that China had agreed to ‘solid provisions’ on labour rights, environment and climate and the crucial ban on forced transfer of technology from foreign companies – a symbolic assertion of Europe’s ‘strategic autonomy’.
This could prove to be trickier than it looks as the debate surrounding the deal remains contentious.
Dear High Representative,
Dear Foreign Ministers,
We are writing ahead of the January 25th Foreign Affairs Council discussion on Egypt to raise our serious concerns, once again, about the human rights crisis unfolding in the country, and to urge the EU and its member states to take the long overdue steps needed to signal that Egypt’s disregard for human rights will no longer be tolerated.
As we near the 10th anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 revolution, the hopes for freedom and human rights-oriented reform that led Egyptians to take to the streets almost a decade ago, have been shattered by years of brutal repression and a relentless crackdown on any form of dissent. In a letter sent to you nearly one year ago, international human rights NGOs urged the
An adviser to the EU’s top court said it should overturn a ruling that found Venezuela lacked standing to bring a complaint over sanctions imposed by the union.
A biker wearing a protective face mask rides past a mural depicting the eyes of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, last summer. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
LUXEMBOURG (CN) Venezuela can contest economic sanctions before the European Union’s highest court, a magistrate for the court said Wednesday.
In a nonbinding opinion for the European Court of Justice, Advocate General Gerard Hogan wrote that the European General Court, the EU’s lower court, erred when it rejected a complaint from the South American country over sanctions issued in 2017.