Ukraine peace talks in Minsk #39;A chance that cannot be missed #39;
The European Union #39;s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has told MEPs in Strasbourg that Wednesday #39;s Ukraine peace talks represent "a chance that cannot be missed". She was speaking on...
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The European Union's response to the Ukrainian crisis
Video Statement by EU High Representative/Vice President Federica Mogherini on Ukraine to the European Parliament, 10 February 2014
Statement can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/1IMhqZR
Extract on Ukraine from a Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Mogherini
at Munich Security Conference, 8 February 2014
.. Let me try to say how I think the European Union can contribute to addressing the many challenges (and the few opportunities) we face and hopefully trying to make the opportunities more than the challenges.
First, by focusing on our immediate and wider neighbourhood. I am convinced that, as Europeans, we can only expect to be a credible global player if we act as a responsible power at our doorstep. Our priority are the many challenges that are most immediate and most urgent. We stand side by side with our partners and friends in the region, in defence against those that seek to undermine their values, their aspirations, their sovereign choices. We support their state building projects, their democratisation, economic reforms, as well as their European and regional integration. It is both a responsibility dictated by history and an interest dictated by geography.
And we do that together, north and south, east and west of the European Union, united. As we know very well our strength comes from a balanced mix of diversity and unity. And because we all know that we can't afford the luxury of choosing which crisis we want to deal with. The conflicts around us are many and don't queue up: we have to work on all of them, all at the same time, all of us together, to the east and to the south.
To our east, on European territory, the conflict in Ukraine has carried an unsustainable price in human lives, has shown us that one of the basic principles of international law - the respect of country's territorial integrity and sovereignty, and that you don't change borders by force - can be violated. An extremely dangerous precedent, not only for Europe but for the rest of the world as well.
What is our response? What is our action to stop the conflict and restore the respect of international law?
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The European Union's response to the Ukrainian crisis
GENEVA: The European Union (EU) must establish a full-scale search-and-rescue operation to avoid more tragedies involving migrants in the Mediterranean, the United Nations' chief refugee official said on Thursday.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres was speaking after more than 300 people died trying to cross the sea from Africa to Italy this week, adding pressure on Europe to expand a border operation that lacks a clear mandate to save lives.
"There can be no doubt left after this week's events that Europe's Operation Triton is a woefully inadequatereplacement for Italy's Mare Nostrum," Guterres said in a statement.
The Italian operation was abandoned after criticism that its aggressive search-and-rescue patrols encouraged migrants. Triton is more focused on protecting borders.
"The focus has to be about saving lives. We need a robust search-and-rescue operation in the Central Mediterranean, not only a border patrol," he said.
Migrants and asylum-seekers from Syria and sub-Saharan Africa have been crossing the Mediterranean, often departing from Libya, aboard rubber dinghies in severe winter conditions, marking a deadly early start to the migration season, aid agencies say.
If Europe does not implement a wider operation "it is inevitable that many more people will die trying to reach safety in Europe," Guterres said.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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France: #39;Dogmatic EU, democratic Syriza #39; - Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias
Pablo Iglesias, leader of Spanish party Podemos defended Syriza and attacked the European Union (EU) elite at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. -----------------------------------...
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Dateline Abuja: EU Observer Analyses Nigeria #39;s Preparation For 2015 Polls PT1
The Deputy Chief Observer of the European Union Election Mission in Nigeria, Hannah Roberts, joins us on Dateline Abuja. For more information log on to http://www.channelstv.com.
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Dateline Abuja: EU Observer Analyses Nigeria's Preparation For 2015 Polls PT1 - Video