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EU Set To Widen Iran Sanctions
The European Union is set to widen its sanctions against Iran when the club’s foreign ministers meet in Brussels on January 23. The 27 member states are expected to agree on an embargo against Iranian oil exports and might even agree to impose some sanctions on the country’s central bank. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, [...]
Turkey suspends political and military ties with France
Turkey announced on Thursday the suspension of political and military cooperation with France after French lawmakers approved a bill making it a crime to deny Armenian genocide. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan said Turkey will recall its ambassador from Paris and suspend mutual political visits as well as joint military projects, including joint exercises. [...]
France defence deal intact despite EU row, says Hague
Britain said on Sunday that a defence pact signed with France a year ago under which the two countries would would share aircraft carriers is still intact despite last week’s EU summit farrago. After British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday vetoed a new EU treaty aimed at saving the euro, Foreign Secretary William Hague [...]
Austerity endangers Europe’s military ambitions
Years of austerity are stifling Europe’s defence ambitions: anti-piracy warships are lacking off Somalia, riot police are stretched in Kosovo and not one EU military doctor can be found to go to Uganda. Drastic cuts in defence spending over the past years are making it harder for the European Union to maintain military operations, officials [...]
Russia activates missile warning system near EU
Russia on Tuesday activated a radar warning system against incoming missiles in its exclave of Kaliningrad on the borders of the EU, in response to Western plans for a US missile shield in Europe. President Dmitry Medvedev announced that the Voronezh-DM station was moving on to immediate combat readiness, days after threatening to deploy missiles [...]
EU & US Conduct Readiness Tests for Cyber Attacks
The first test of trans-Atlantic responses to cyber incidents, including cyber-attacks, took place in Brussels today. Experts from the US Government joined counterparts from EU Member States to simulate how cyber security authorities on both sides of the Atlantic would cooperate in response to attacks. Two hypothetical scenarios were tested: a cyber-attack which attempts to [...]
Sarkozy ‘sick’ of Cameron’s EU interference: reports
French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister David Cameron at Sunday’s EU summit, saying he was “sick of him telling us what to do,” Britain’s press reported. During talks in Brussels to resolve the eurozone debt crisis, the French leader accused Cameron of “interfering in our meetings”, newspapers The Guardian and [...]
Iran offers full nuclear supervision if sanctions lifted
Iran offered on Monday to grant the UN nuclear watchdog “full supervision” of its atomic programme for five years if sanctions are lifted, as the EU insisted Tehran first meet its international obligations. “We have proposed that the agency keep Iran’s activities and nuclear programme under full supervision for five years, providing the sanctions are [...]
France, Germany, Poland back permanent EU military HQ
France, Germany and Poland want the idea of a permanent European Union military headquarters in Brussels to be pursued despite British opposition, their foreign ministers said Monday. The ministers issued a joint statement after EU foreign and security policy chief Catherine Ashton released a report on possible ways for states to pool and share military [...]
