WorldOnly respect for fundamental rights, constructive and respectful dialogue and tolerance can help Venezuela to find a way out of its current violent crisis, MEPs said in a vote on Thursday. They condemned all acts of violence and loss of life and asked for an ad-hoc delegation of the European Parliament to be sent to Venezuela as soon as possible. Lithuanian Foreign Minister to visit Moldova2014-02-25, 14:16On 24-25 February, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the Foreign Minister of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs are paying a working visit to Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. European Parliament delegation went again to Ukraine2014-02-23, 10:37An official delegation of twelve MEPs were travelling to Kyiv on Saturday afternoon to meet with counterparts in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and discuss future assistance. The delegation, which went to Ukraine at the end of January as well, will stay for two days. Statement by President Barroso on Ukraine2014-02-22, 11:15"I welcome the agreement reached by the Ukrainian President and the opposition leaders, facilitated by the foreign ministers of Poland, Germany and France, on behalf of the EU, on a road map for a political resolution of the crisis. Ukraine: EU agrees on targeted sanctions2014-02-21, 15:11At an extraordinary meeting on 20 February, EU foreign ministers decided to introduce sanctions against those responsible for violence and the use of excessive force in Ukraine. After three rounds of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht is holding meetings with United States Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman in Washington D.C. to review progress since the talks started in July 2013. EU to support the destruction of Syrian chemical stockpiles2014-02-17, 15:02The European Union announced today financial support of €12 million to help destroy Syrian chemical stockpiles, by contributing to a Trust Fund established by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), recipient of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. The contribution was pledged by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton in December last year and become today a reality with the signing of the contract by EU Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs. The United States and France congratulate the people of Lithuania on the Restoration of Independence Day2014-02-16, 13:20France and the United States congratulated the people of Lithuania on the occasion of the Independence Day of February 16. President Dalia Grybauskaitė received a message of congratulations from French President François Hollande. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry passed on congratulations from President Barack Obama. The Falsified Medicines Directive: improving the safety of EU medicines2014-02-15, 13:53European citizens are entitled to medicines that are safe, of high quality and effective. Falsified medicines may contain ingredients of low quality or in the wrong dosage – either too high or too low – and therefore pose a major health threat to EU citizens. The EU has always tended to be more cautious about approving new products than the US, which is why the two regions have clashed over issues such as GMOs and hormones in beef. Now that they are negotiating an ambitious free-trade agreement, the question is whether the EU should become less prudent. However, MEPs warned against this at a meeting on the treaty on 11 February organised by the legal affairs committee, saying it would be opposed by Europeans concerned about their health. |
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