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On Wednesday, ten countries celebrated 20 years in the European Union. Poland had found its place "among friends, among allies, in Europe, at home: This is what generations of Poles have fought for," said Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in a ceremony at the Polish-German border, on the bridge over the Oder river that joins the cities of Słubice and Frankfurt an der Oder. May 1, 2004 was the largest single expansion in the history of the EU. Of the ten countries that joined that day, eight had emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in the wake of the upheavals of 1989: Poland, the Czech...
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The European Commission has promised Lebanon financial aid totalling around €1 billion ($1.07 billion) in order to stop the flow into the European Union of refugees from Syria currently living there. "We are here first and foremost to say that the European Union strongly supports Lebanon and its people and we want to reinforce our longstanding cooperation," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in Beirut on Thursday, following talks with acting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides. "To underline our support, I can announce a financi...
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The European Commission has promised Lebanon financial aid totalling around €1 billion ($1.07 billion) in order to stop the flow into the European Union of refugees from Syria currently living there. "We are here first and foremost to say that the European Union strongly supports Lebanon and its people and we want to reinforce our longstanding cooperation," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in Beirut on Thursday, following talks with acting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides. "To underline our support, I can announce a financi...
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A support package from the European Union worth €1 billion ($1.07 billion) is to be announced on Thursday in Lebanon by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, according to officials. The Cypriot government in particular has recently raised the alarm about the growing number of Syrian refugees arriving from Lebanon as no longer sustainable and called for the EU to take action. "The bonds between Lebanon and Europe are deep and strong. President Christodulides and I are here to say that the EU strongly supports Lebanon and its people. And ...
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides met Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the governmental palace in downtown Beirut on Thursday. Army chief Joseph Aoun and Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib were also present in the meeting. Christodoulides and von der Leyen planned later to meet Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, a close ally of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement. The Cypriot president had visited Lebanon on April 8 accompanied by his country's interior and foreign ministers and army chief, shortly after he urged the...
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Poland's upcoming presidency of the Council of the European Union will focus on tightening cooperation with the United States and Ukraine, President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday in Warsaw. "We should organize two European summits in Poland to underline the most important elements of Europe's development for the future," Duda said in a speech marking Poland's 20th anniversary of accession to the European Union. The EU presidency is held on a rotating six-month basis. Poland's turn will come in the first half of 2025. The presidency handles portions of the bloc's business and helps set the EU ...
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Germany and Poland staged festivities in twin towns on their shared border to mark the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski met in Frankfurt an der Oder and Słubice on Wednesday. The two visited Słubice's Collegium Polonicum academic institution on the Polish side, then joined a festival and crossed the Oder Bridge to Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany. Baerbock called May 1, 2004, an "incredible moment" for the continent. On that day, the former Eastern Bloc states of Estonia, Latvia...
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The European Union marked the 20th anniversary of ten countries in Eastern Europe joining the bloc on Tuesday as the third year of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine continued. Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the EU out of a "fierce desire to become part of EU's freedom and prosperity," European Council President Charles Michel said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "Europe was more than a geography. It is an idea, a journey, a beacon of hope," Michel said, ahead of the official anniversary on May 1. European...
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The European Commission announced an investigation into Meta's handling of political advertising on its Facebook and Instagram platforms on Tuesday ahead of the June 6-9 EU elections. EU officials are concerned that the US technology company's handling of political content risks undermining the democratic process of the European Parliament elections. Fears are rife that deliberately misleading content from outside actors could interfere with the fairness of the European elections. European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said at an event in Brussels that to protect the electoral process...
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that FIFA's rules on players transfer may prove to be contrary to European Union's law in view of a dispute between former French player Lassana Diarra and the football governing body. Advocate general Maciej Szpunar emitted an opinion on Tuesday, saying that FIFA rules "governing contractual relations between players and clubs may prove to be contrary to the European rules on competition and freedom of movement of persons." Diarra signed for Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow in 2013, only to have that contract terminated by the club one y...
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