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GAZIANTEP, Turkey Tue Dec 9, 2014 3:05pm GMT

GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers and a senior U.N. envoy will meet on Dec. 14-15 to try to streamline the fight against Islamic State and find ways to restart peacemaking in Syria, the EU's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday.

The ministers will meet with U.N. peace envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura in Brussels, Federica Mogherini said after visiting a Syrian refugee camp near the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

"On Sunday and Monday we are going to have a meeting ... to see how we can better coordinate on one side the fight against Daesh (Islamic State), the other side finding ways to restart the political process that leads to a solution to the conflict in Syria," she told a news conference.

A U.S.-led coalition began air strikes on Islamic State in August after the insurgents overran wide areas of Syria and Iraq. But while IS has lost some ground in Iraq since then, it has consolidated control over much of the territory it took.

The European Union also announced an additional 10 million euros ($12 million) in humanitarian aid for refugees from Syria's civil war, which is now in its fourth year.

A second round of international diplomacy to broker a peaceful settlement in Syria came to nought in February amid differences over approach among major world and regional powers.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has drawn up a wish list of almost 2,000 projects worth 1.3 trillion euros (1.02 trillion pounds) for possible inclusion in an investment plan to revive growth and jobs without adding to countries' debts.

Investment has been a casualty of the financial crisis in Europe, tumbling around 20 percent in the euro zone since 2008, according to the European Central Bank.

Following a call by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, EU governments have submitted projects ranging from a new airport terminal in Helsinki to flood defences in Britain, according to a document seen by Reuters.

"Almost 2,000 projects were identified with a total investment cost of 1,300 billion euros of which 500 billion are to be realised within the next three years," said the document, to be discussed by EU finance ministers on Tuesday.

Projects on the list, which officials stress is not definitive, also include housing regeneration in the Netherlands, a new port in Ireland and a 4.5 billion euro fast rail connection between Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

Other job-creating schemes involve refuelling stations for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Germany, expanding high-speed broadband networks in Spain and making France public buildings use less energy.

Almost a third of the projects are energy related, another third are focussed on transport and the remainder on innovation, the environment and housing.

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