WorldUkraine: 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. Lithuania welcomes progress on implementation of agreement between Belgrade and Pristina2014-02-12, 12:16On 10 February, United Nations (UN) Security Council held a debate on UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Military operation in Central African Republic formally established2014-02-11, 18:15Meeting in the Foreign Affairs Council, EU ministers formally established the EU military operation in the Central African Republic, opening the way for its rapid deployment in the forthcoming weeks. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius will attend the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council that will take place on February 10 in Brussels. Foreign Ministers will start the meeting with a debate on the Eastern Partnership and in particular the situation in Ukraine. Google, Facebook, Microsoft hire first anti-NSA lobbyist in Washington2014-02-09, 15:18Technology powers like Apple and Google have coalesced to register a lobbyist in Washington to focus on government surveillance reform in an effort to maintain credibility following NSA spying disclosures that often implicated them as accomplices. |
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