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Brok said that “from the outset we have said that before signing the Association Agreement, Ukraine must fulfil all the conditions – one of these is the resolution of the selective means in which the law has been imposed on Tymoshenko.”

MEP calls for Tymoshenko release

By: EBR | Thursday, October 17, 2013

A senior Member of the European Parliament has repeated his call for Ukraine to release the country´s jailed former PM Yulia Tymoshenko.

Dr. Charles TANNOCK, chairman EP-Taiwan Friendship Group and Mr. Kenneth C.M. LO, chairman of CNAIC, Taiwan with the declaration in their hands

EP urges the Commission and Council to start talks on EU-Taiwan trade agreement

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The European Parliament-Taiwan Friendship Group and the Taiwanese Association of Industry and Commerce (CNAIC) agreed on September 23 that an economic cooperation agreement (ECA) between the European Union and Taiwan will boost EU-Taiwan relations.

We respect the choices of those who want to leave things as they are and even of those who might decide to stand on the sidelines. But we intend to go further with the countries which have decided to forge ahead. It’s our project of mutually-supportive integration in a “differentiated Europe” where there would be distinct paces, distinct content and even distinct decision-making rules, within of course the Union of all member states as an area of freedom, democracy and solidarity.

Europe supporting growth and employment

By: EBR | Monday, September 30, 2013

Today, the European Union is facing the most serious crisis in its history. The EU is the world’s largest economic and trading power, it has the means to overcome this crisis but it is seen as a sick continent, in decline. Even the European identity is at stake.

Some religious groups reported that Georgian Orthodox Church priests warned leaders of local minority congregations that after the October 1 parliamentary elections they would no longer be allowed to hold services in their respective villages.

Religious freedom and beliefs "under serious threat" in East European states

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 24, 2013

The international spotlight may have been firmly focused on Syria of late but anxiety about the situation in some of its neighbouring states is also rapidly rising.

Major concerns persist about the rate of progress being made by both Moldova and Ukraine on the reform process and their suitability for closer ties with the EU.

Pressure mounts on EU´s Eastern neighbours amid growing concern over human rights violations

By: EBR | Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Ahead of a key economic summit in Poland next week, international pressure is mounting on both Ukraine and Moldova to do more to resolve ongoing problems.

Some experts have expressed fears, though, that after further liberalisation of visa regimes between the EU and Moldova there will be a risk of illegal labour migrants moving from Moldova to the EU, as well as a possible influx of criminal elements, prostitutes and drug and human traffickers.

What does the Commission to put a stop to human trafficking in Moldova?

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The European Commission has been challenged to "clarify" what it is doing to "put a stop" to human trafficking in Moldova. The demand comes in a parliamentary question tabled by the Slovenian MEP Jelko Kacin.

Many commentators on the Cyprus bank crisis have drawn attention to many similarities between Iceland and Cyprus. The similarities are striking. Both islands wanted to become sanctuaries for the superrich. Both offered high rates of interest and lax regulation. Both islands experienced cancerous growth of the banking system.

A TALE OF TWO ISLANDS: BAILOUT OR BANKRUPTCY?

By: EBR | Friday, May 10, 2013

Why should (German) taxpayers bail out Russian oligarchs who are in danger of losing their tax-evaded money? Silly question. Of course they shouldn´t – none of their business.

‘Thanks to the efforts of President Ma’s administration, Mainland China - Taiwan relations went from confrontation to conciliation. But now Taiwan is left behind. Other countries in the region are signing or are negotiating Free Trade Agreements with the EU. We don’t want to see peaceful and democratic Taiwan suffering from its competition. Taiwan as a friend of peace and democracy is a natural partner of the EU’.

Taiwan’s new EU Ambassador wants: ‘a more far-reaching EU-Taiwan relationship’

By: EBR | Monday, May 6, 2013

Mr. Kuoyu Tung recently took up his role as Taiwan’s Ambassador to the EU, one of his country’s most important postings abroad, replacing his predecessor David Lin who was appointed Foreign Minister late last year.

In Mr. Malosse’s opinion ‘the crisis facing Europe is first and foremost a crisis of estrangement between the EU and its citizens’. He wants a change and the role of the EESC is clear, it has to ensure that civil society has a voice in EU decision-making.

New EESC President Malosse put citizens at the heart of the EU public debate

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Frenchman Henri Malosse kicked off 2 1/2-year tenure as head of the oldest EU institution that represents civil society.

Other key areas are the strict division of European Central Bank staff between monetary policy and supervision to ensure that the supervisory arm of the ECB is truly accountable; strengthening the European Banking Authority, in relation to the ECB, and also improving its ability to undertake stress tests and obtain information; and establishing a system which will uphold the diversity of the EU banking sector.

Under Cypriot clouds a landmark deal on single bank supervisor secured!

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 19, 2013

While the struggle around the Cypriot bailout went on today, the Irish Presidency has reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament to create a single supervisor for cross-border Eurozone banks.

Europe as a whole - as opposed to Europe as an amalgam of 27 - needs to pool resources. Cohesion policy, and more urgently, a digital single market, is key to addressing macroeconomic and regional disparities at EU level and should be at the core of the internal market policy for enhancing competitiveness, productivity, growth, and job creation.

Silicon Europe

By: EBR | Monday, September 10, 2012

To envision a European Silicon Valley, in the image and likeness of the original version in the San Francisco Bay, is more or less like seeing a mirage in the desert. Europe is a starry-eyed idealist, always taken aback by its own modesty.