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An initial €3 million is being channelled into relief efforts and more may follow. more »
EU Trade Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner will visit Central American countries from the 18 to 21 January on a trip that includes Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador. more »
After meeting with the US special envoy to the area, George Mitchell, and with the “Paris Group”, on 12 January in Brussels, Moratinos stated that there is a “general mobilisation” of the international community towards relaunching the peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. more »
The Spanish State Secretary for European Affairs, Diego López Garrido, stated at the close of the first day of the informal meeting of ministers for European Affairs, currently taking place in La Granja, that the Spanish presidency has received the “full support” of the 27 Member States for the promotion of the citizens’ legislative initiative. more »
Monitoring the results of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and international environmental governance are “the two main fields” of focus for the working sessions of the informal environment ministers' meeting, held on Saturday 16 January in Seville. more »
Jerzy Buzek, the President of the European Parliament has appealed for Europe to send emergency aid to Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake. more »
The priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, chiefly overcoming the economic crisis and adopting a new strategy for growth and also including agreements with Latin America, were addressed at a meeting in Brussels between the Spanish first deputy prime minister, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, and the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso. more »
The situation in the “dry corridor” of Guatemala bordering Honduras and Salvador has become critical. more »
The European Parliament delegation for relations with Iran has voiced surprise at the last-minute cancellation by Iranian authorities of the EP delegation's visit to Tehran, which was to take place later this week. more »
The Council of the European Union adopted today a mandate authorising the Commission to negotiate a partnership agreement for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Russian Federation. more »