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Effective March 17, 2009, the World Bank’s operations in Madagascar have been guided by its Operational Policy OP 7.30, Dealing with de facto Governments, and no fund withdrawal requests have been processed since that date, with few exceptions (see below). more »
The EU and Vietnam have agreed to launch bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations following a meeting between EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi today. more »
Several popular French tourist destinations remain underwater as the full extent of freak storms becomes clear. more »
The European Commission (EC) has approved three million euros of emergency aid in response to the situation caused by the earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday and has caused over 300 deaths. more »
The ministers of defence of the European Union agreed on Wednesday to expand the objectives of Operation Atalanta to include control of Somali ports where pirate ships are based, as well as the possibility of “neutralising” the mother ships that allow the pirates to operate more than 1,000 km from the coast. more »
The EU's Cohesion Policy and its future is the focal point of the discussions by representatives of the EU-27, who have been invited by Spain's Secretary of State for the Treasury and Budgets, Carlos Ocaña, to attend the Informal Meeting of Regional Policy Ministers this Friday in Zaragoza. more »
Commission calls for €90m more in aid for the quake-stricken country, to be drawn from EU emergency funds. more »
The EU, the USA and the UN are going to divide up the workload in order to provide shelter for more than one million Haitians before the rains, which have already started in the Caribbean country, get any worse. more »
MEPs discussed Burma and its long-suffering people in Parliament on 11 February. more »
European post-earthquake aid to Haiti, the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and transatlantic cooperation will be the focus of the EU Informal Meeting of Ministers for Development, to be held on 17 and 18 February in La Granja (Segovia). more »