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EU-China CAI u2014 strategic mistake?
By Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy After seven long years of negotiations, Brussels and Beijing on Thursday last week signed a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). The CAI would ensure EU investors…
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UK ‘rejected offer’ of visa-free tours by musicians in EU, despite blaming Brussels for permit blow
The UK rejected an offer of visa-free tours by musicians to EU countries, despite blaming Brussels for what the industry is calling the devastating blow of them requiring permits. “It…
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Not Over Yet? French MEP Says Brexit Deal May be ‘Modified’ if EU Parliament Finds it ‘Lacking’
A French MEP and ally of French president Emmanuel Macron has suggested that the European Parliament could still “modify” the Brexit deal, raising questions about whether the trade deal struck…
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The EU just sold human rights down the river for minor commercial gains in China
Twenty-twenty was the year that saw Xi Jinping’s geopolitical lawlessness and domestic abuses peak. Yet the year ended with a gratuitous European Union giveaway to Beijing in the form of…
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‘Fish left to rot’ as post-Brexit red tape holds up exports to EU
UK fishermen were facing a growing crisis today as they were forced to halt exports to the European Union because of a mountain of bureaucracy. Many Scottish fishermen have paused…
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2020 ties with 2016 as hottest year on record: EU body
BRUSSELS: Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate…
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Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union
… It domiciled itself in the European Union. Ireland (the Republic of … spotted yesterday that Leave.EU, which brought such characters … hideous prospect of jackbooted EU commissars grinding their…
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Farage: European Union’s Greed Is Helping Communist China ‘Take Over the World’
In response to the mass arrests of pro-democracy activists and politicians in Hong Kong, British politicians called on the European Union to abandon the investment pact it struck with the…
Health
WHO warns of COVID-19 ‘tipping point’ as cases rise across Europe
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a “tipping point” in the fight against COVID-19, amid surging cases in Europe and the fresh challenge of a mutating virus.
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Pro-Brexit lobby group Leave.eu joins the EU
A pro-Brexit lobby group transferred its website registration address to the European Union to avoid losing its .eu top-level domain, Irish media reported on Thursday. Leave.eu is a website funded by UKIP…