Greece blasts Berlin for shunning plea for Turkey arms embargo
ATHENS — Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias accused Germany of failing to live up to its leadership role in the EU by rejecting pleas from Athens to impose an arms embargo on Turkey. “I really fail...
View ArticleEU leaders to line up new sanctions on Turkey at summit
EU leaders will ask for the preparation of additional sanctions against Turkey over the country’s drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, according to a draft of European Council summit...
View ArticleEU leaders move toward sanctioning Turkey
EU leaders are seeking additional sanctions against Turkey over the country’s “unauthorized drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean,” according to the final European Council summit...
View ArticleMerkel’s report card: Grading Germany’s EU presidency
Germany labeled its six-month presidency of the Council of the EU with the slogan “Together for Europe’s recovery.” And indeed, as Berlin hands the EU leadership baton to Portugal, many say its...
View ArticleCyprus set for second coronavirus lockdown
Cyprus is to go back into lockdown in a bid to curb an aggressive rise in coronavirus infections. From Sunday until January 31, businesses such as hairdressers, beauty salons and department stores...
View ArticleCommission to EU countries: Get with the vaccine program
Brussels wants EU countries to cut the finger-pointing and get vaccinating. After spending most of January defending its vaccine deals and the slow roll-out of jabs, the Commission upped the ante...
View ArticleTurkish charm offensive puts EU in tight spot
A charm offensive by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has put the EU in a bind over whether to press ahead with further sanctions against Ankara. After months of tensions with Turkey, EU leaders...
View ArticleEU and Turkey call for concrete actions to improve relations
Turkey and the EU signalled a slight brightening of relations on Thursday, after a year of tensions that had left Brussels pondering new sanctions. The hint of a thaw came at a meeting between Josep...
View ArticleTurkish foreign minister: New EU sanctions ‘will ruin everything’
If the EU decides to impose further sanctions against Turkey it will ruin the dialogue between Ankara and Brussels, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. However, if the EU opts to avoid...
View ArticleUN calls meeting for talks on Cyprus reunification
The United Nations will hold a meeting in April to consider prospects for resuming talks on reunifying the divided island of Cyprus, the first such gathering since negotiations collapsed in 2017. The...
View Article16 EU countries opted against Moderna vaccine top-up: Hungarian government
More than half of EU countries did not order as many doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine as they could have, according to a newly published delivery schedule posted by the Hungarian government....
View ArticleEurope’s prisoners left in limbo on coronavirus vaccinations
Europe’s prisoners may be particularly at risk of getting coronavirus — but they won’t be getting a vaccine anytime soon. Prisons are the perfect storm for coronavirus outbreaks: Cramped and...
View ArticleEU countries halt Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout over blood clots
Countries across Europe are suspending — some fully, some partially — the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab after reports of blood clotting after vaccination. There have been several deaths from...
View ArticleEU deal cements China’s advantage in media war
Despite growing concerns about Chinese disinformation and propaganda in Europe, the EU’s trade deal with Beijing makes no attempt to rectify the stark differences in access rights between European and...
View ArticleTurkish Cypriots say EU should stay out of talks on island’s future
The European Union should stay out of talks on the Cyprus problem as long as it recognizes only the Greek Cypriot government, the foreign minister of the northern breakaway republic said. Tahsin...
View ArticleEU leaders will relaunch Turkey cooperation — with caveats
EU leaders have agreed to a “phased, proportionate and reversible” relaunch of their cooperation with Turkey on migration and trade. The decision came during a videoconference meeting of the European...
View ArticleEU leaders tell Erdoğan: We’ll cooperate — if you do, too
The EU has taken the first step, now Turkey has to reciprocate. That was the message two of the EU’s top leaders conveyed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a meeting in Ankara on...
View ArticleMEPs want EU leaders to answer for ‘Sofagate’ in Parliament
Leading MEPs are pressuring European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to come answer questions before the European Parliament on the diplomatic...
View Article5 things to know about the latest Cyprus talks
For the first time since 2017, talks will take place this week on reunifying the divided island of Cyprus. The informal meeting in Geneva, under the auspices of the United Nations, will last from...
View ArticleCyprus talks failed to find common ground, UN says
Three days of talks between Cypriot leaders yielded not enough common ground to resume formal talks on a settlement, the United Nations said Thursday. This week’s summit in Geneva — involving...
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