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Jean-Claude Juncker: “My general message in the region and particularly as far as the two countries you mentioned are concerned, is that no country will be a member of the European Union if the border disputes are not closed. They have to put order in the region. We are not importing the instability remaining in the Western Balkans but we want to export our stability. So, all the countries wanting to become members of the European Union have to solve the border issues and we have a lot of border issues in this region.” … [Read more...] about Jean-Claude Juncker and EU ‘enlargement fatigue’

"What is important to stress is that the European Union believes that measures should always be taken within the World Trade Organization framework, which provides numerous tools to effectively deal with trade differences," European Commission spokesman Daniel Rosario said this week. … [Read more...] about China Urges EU to ‘Act Together’ Against US Protectionism

The European Union extended sanctions on Iran over human rights violations on Thursday, in a step that may appease President Donald Trump. The EU is eager to safeguard the Iran Deal, under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear ambitions for at least a decade, but divided over how to achieve that. The United Nations said in March that Iran had arrested activists and political opponents in a clampdown on freedom of expression and continued to use torture to coerce confessions. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union extended sanctions on Iran over human rights violations on Thursday, as the bloc prepared for a clash over whether to impose a new set of penalties in the hope of safeguarding a nuclear deal with the Islamic republic. … [Read more...] about EU hits Iran with renewed sanctions over human rights abuses in a possible move to court Trump

“Better off in.” This was the slogan of the Remain campaign during Britain’s EU referendum. It didn’t persuade the 17.4 million people who voted Brexit, most of whom see the EU for what it really is: a corrupt, sclerotic, socialistic, anti-democratic, anti-capitalist, authoritarian superstate run primarily in the interests of the country that lost the war but won the peace, Germany. … [Read more...] about Delingpole: Exposed – German/Russian EU Conspiracy Vindicates Brexit

Moreover, it arguably exacerbated conflict in the former Yugoslavia with a confused and contradictory foreign policy — first supporting the Communist federation, then endorsing breakaway republics, and finally opposing the secession of Serbian regions within those breakaway republics. … [Read more...] about ‘Peaceful’ EU Wants Laser Weapon Which Can Disintegrate Human Heads