SA is taking its citrus dispute with EU to the World Trade Organisation
South Africa is taking its citrus black spot dispute with the European Union to the World Trade Organisation. The issue involves the European Union #39;s stance on the alleged effects of South...
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The European Union said on Friday it had reached an agreement with the United States to use a U.S. firm's air ambulances to evacuate European doctors or nurses from West Africa if they caught Ebola.
The agreement is one of a range of measures the EU is working on to try to encourage more European healthcare workers to go and care for sick people in Ebola-hit countries of West Africa by reassuring them they would quickly be evacuated for treatment in European hospitals if they contracted the disease.
Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever, has killed more than 4,000 people since March in an epidemic centered on the poor West African countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The EU and the U.S. State Department signed an agreement on Thursday on the use of specialised air ambulances operated by the U.S. carrier Phoenix Air, European Commission spokesman David Sharrock said.
The State Department has an exclusive contract with Phoenix, one of a handful of companies with the capability to transport Ebola patients.
"Thanks to this agreement, we could use Phoenix for the evacuation of serious cases of Ebola," Sharrock said. "The agreement is not restricted to a certain number of flights or patients."
"More international doctors and health workers would be willing to work on the response if they have the option of speedy evacuation in case they are injured or infected with Ebola," he said.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, also has an agreement with Swiss-based logistics company Kuehne & Nagel which allows it to use French company Medic'Air and possibly other companies for less severe cases, he said.
He could not say how much the agreements would cost the Commission, but said it had set aside 3 million euros ($3.8 million) for medical evacuations over the next few months.
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The Family Meal: What brings us together?
The EU and the World Food Programme (WFP) work together to ensure every familly can enjoy nutritious meals every day. In order to raise awareness to the topic of food assistance, the EU and...
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Mr Hammond said Brussels will not be able to extinguish demands for a vote Foreign Secretary claimed the EU has become a 'putative superstate' He said 'politicians do not have the power to stop' UK bid to return power
By Tom McTague, Deputy Political Editor for MailOnline
Published: 07:18 EST, 17 October 2014 | Updated: 09:52 EST, 17 October 2014
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the EU is now a 'putative superstate'
Britain is 'lighting a fire under the European Union' by pledging an in-out referendum, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said today.
Mr Hammond said Brussels would not be able to extinguish public demands for a vote on Britain's membership of the EU following the Prime Minister's pledge to hold a referendum by 2017.
The Foreign Secretary, who remarks are among the most Eurosceptic ever made by a serving Cabinet minister, added that the EU has become a 'putative superstate' without Britain's say-so.
Mr Hammond's claim came in a Commons debate today on a Tory bid to guarantee an EU referendum in law after the next election.
He told the House that the issue was 'surely the most important strategic question facing this country', adding: 'We are lighting a fire under the European Union by this piece of legislation.
'We are setting off a process that politicians and governments do not have the power to stop.'
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