The European Union stands poised to put the military wing of Lebanon’s Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations after a formal request to blacklist the group was filed by a member state Monday, diplomats said.
The request from Britain formally launches a process to blacklist the group, a move that has long been requested by Israel and which will be discussed in early June, several EU diplomats told AFP news agency.
“We hope to have an agreement by the end of [...]
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EU foreign affairs Chief Catherine Ashton joined the U.S. on Friday in criticizing Israel, both over its plan to build in Beit El as well as over the tensions this week on the Temple Mount.
“The High Representative is concerned by developments over the past week in East Jerusalem and the West Bank which have increased tensions on the ground and risk undermining current efforts to re-launch peace talks,” Ashton’s office in Brussels said in a statement quoted by AFP.
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The president of FN also maintains contacts with elected FPÖ (Austria) and the Vlaams Belang (Belgium).
The president of FN, the French Marine Le Pen, had lunch in Paris with the Dutch right leader Geert Wilders (PVV) to discuss including the 2014 European elections and their common struggle against the EU.
“I had the opportunity to meet three days ago with Mr. Wilders, who is not a leader in the habit of making contacts with other European movements”, welcomed the president of [...]
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In a dramatic escalation of American pressure over the ongoing European refusal to designate Hezbollah a terror organization, the US Senate will consider in the coming days a resolution urging European governments and the European Union to make the designation and impose sanctions on the organization.
The goal, the resolution explains, is to prevent Hezbollah from using the territory of the European Union “for fundraising, recruitment, financing, logistical support, training, and propaganda.”
Drafted by outgoing Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman and already co-signed [...]
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Fiamma Nirenstein, vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, has submitted a resolution to the committee urging Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi Sant’Agata to push to outlaw Hezbollah.
The move comes as discussions are being held among the 27 EU member countries about placing the Lebanese Shi’ite group on its list of terrorist organizations.
The Jerusalem Post obtained a copy last week of the draft resolution, which was formulated in late November, and is slated to be [...]
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The Hamas prime minister in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, on Sunday called on European governments to remove Hamas and other Palestinian groups from their list of terrorist organizations.
The time has come for European states to lift Hamas’s classification as a terrorist group, Haniyeh told a European delegation to Gaza, days after Hamas and other terror groups fired 1,500 rockets into Israel in the course of an eight-day conflict with Israel. He said that his organization, and the other Palestinian [...]
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An Algerian-born career criminal suspected of a ‘marriage of convenience’ to a British citizen has been deported from Spain to the UK.
Police said Lazhari Zemouche had been arrested 92 times in Spain over the past 25 years for crimes from theft to robbery and had used a number of fake identities.
But because he had married in the UK before his latest crime spree in Spain, he was deported to London rather than to his native Algeria.
Officials said he was put [...]
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Iran executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran on Wednesday, a statement on the website of the prosecutor’s office said.
The men sent to the gallows were convicted of trafficking “hundreds of kilos” (pounds) of narcotics, the statement said.
Iran, where murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery are punishable by death, is among countries with the highest annual record of executions in the world, along with China, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Two weeks ago, an announcement by [...]
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Tuesday the European Union will lose his nation if it is not accepted as a member by 2023.?At that time, Turkey will celebrate its 100th anniversary as a republic, created following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923.
Erdogan’s comment was the first indication of how much longer the country is willing to wait for an answer on its EU membership before finally tossing in the towel.
During a panel discussion Tuesday night in [...]
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The European Union’s foreign policy chief has criticized Israel’s plan to build hundreds of homes in annexed east Jerusalem and called for it to hold fresh talks with the Palestinians.
Catherine Ashton “deeply regrets” the Israeli interior ministry decision to back the expansion of the Gilo ?settlement? by 797 units, said a statement from her office.
“Settlements are illegal under international law and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible,” said the statement, which repeated the EU’s call for an end to [...]
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Britain’s Foreign Minister William Hague has urged the European Union to place the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah on its list of “terrorist” organizations.
“I would like to see the EU designate and sanction the military wing of Hezbollah,” Hague said Friday in Paphos, Cyprus, where EU Foreign Ministers hold a two-day informal meeting.
EU sources noted that the British move came after mounting indications that Hezbollah was behind a bomb attack on July 18 in Burgas, Bulgaria, that [...]
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The European Union announced last week its decision to classify the Israeli city of Modi’in (Pop. 80,000) as a “settlement” and thus deprive it of tax benefits. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported on August 14, 2012 that “[Israeli] Foreign Ministry officials claim that the surprise move came after the EU unilaterally pulled out of negotiations that have been conducted on the matter.” Israeli officials fear that the move will encourage a European ban on products made in Modi’in.
In 2005, Israel [...]
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The European Union?s Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton, made a skewed?comparison on Monday between the lethal, unprovoked?shooting attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse, in which three children and a teacher were murdered at point blank range, and the unintended?deaths of children in Gaza when Israel attempts to stop missile launchings and apprehend terrorists.
?When we think about what happened today in Toulouse, we also remember what happened in Norway last year, and what is happening now in Syria and Gaza, [...]
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The European Union, the supranational organization of the 27 most developed European nations, is one of the most outspoken and frequent international critics of Israel. Its reports on the situation in the Middle East are often so unfair and biased that not only have they drawn the ire of Israel, they have also angered the government of one of the EU’s six original founding states, the Netherlands, which no longer wants to endorse the reports emanating from the EU mission [...]
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The European Union on Monday pledged 35 million euros (46.3 million dollars) for two Palestinian infrastructure projects. “We have signed two important agreements for a total amount of 35 million euros… one for a water treatment plant in northern West Bank … another is for the crossings in Gaza,” the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Salam Fayyad said.
The money comes from the 300 million euros in Palestinian aid that the EU has earmarked for 2012 – the same [...]
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EU member states need to take greater action to combat female genital mutilation (FGM), human rights organisations Amnesty International and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) have said.
The bodies have called on these countries to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and tackling violence against women to help curb this practice, of which 180,000 girls in Europe are thought to be at risk every year.
“We know that the EU has the means to end violence against women [...]
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The European Union agreed to transfer $72 Million (USD), (55.4 million euros) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) on Wednesday.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton signed the agreement while on a visit in the Gaza Strip.
According to a statement published on the UNRWA website, the money will finance the agency’s General Fund, which supports education, health and social services, and will be invested in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
The latest EU contribution [...]
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Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have condemned the massacre of peaceful protesters in Egypt and Syria, and have passed a resolution this week calling for authorities in the nations to do more to protect vulnerable and targeted Christian communities.
MEPs voted by a show of hands to pass the resolution on the escalating situations in Egypt and Syria, and highlighted in particular the recent slaughter of Christians in Egypt that saw dozens massacred by government army personnel.
In Egypt over the [...]
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The Middle East Quartet has called for the Palestinians and Israel to resume talks within one month and reach an agreement by next year after the Palestinians asked the United Nations to recognize their state.
The Quartet, made up of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the U.N., urged the two sides to come up with comprehensive proposals on territory and security within three months in an effort to achieve a two-state solution.
The Quartet’s push came Friday as Palestinian [...]
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European Court Rules Nigerian Rapist Can Stay in UK, Orders Govt to Pay Legal Costs
A rapist has avoided deportation from the UK after European judges yesterday ruled kicking him out would violate his right to a family life.
The 24-year-old Nigerian has no partner or children but the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered the British Government to let him stay and pay ?3,500 of his legal bill.
The rapist, identified only as AA after the court gave in to [...]
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France: Disused Fire station Used as Mosque for Fast Expanding Muslim Population:
For years, Muslims by the hundreds, dodging foot and vehicle traffic, have unfurled rugs on northern Paris sidewalks and put their foreheads to the ground outside two mosques for Friday prayers – for the simple reason that there’s not enough space inside.
Now the interior minister – who’s also one of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s top advisers – has devised a stopgap solution: On Friday, a unused former fire station nearby [...]
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Despite A Second Financial Bailout From Europe, Greek Parliament Approves $15M Mosque:
Greece’s parliament yesterday approved the construction of a new mosque in Athens to satisfy a long-standing demand by thousands of Muslim residents, a government source said.
The project to build the Greek capital’s first official Muslim place of worship in decades was supported by 198 deputies from the centre, right and left (out of 300) against the objections of 16 nationalist MPs.
The mosque plan was included in an environment ministry [...]
German Police Detain Two Terror Suspects:
German police say they have detained two men in Berlin on suspicion of obtaining chemicals that could be used to make a bomb.
Thomas Neuendorff, a spokesman for Berlin police, said officers were searching the apartments of the men, a 24-year-old German of Lebanese descent and a 28-year-old from Gaza, early Thursday.
Neuendorff said the two men, who were not identified, were suspected of planning a “violent criminal act”.
He said police were also searching an Islamic cultural [...]
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EU Perks Up to Chastise Israel Over Wet Bank Mosque Attack Claim:
Statement by the Spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the attack against the Al-Nurayn mosque in the West Bank
The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission issued the following statement yesterday:
The High Representative strongly condemns the setting on fire and vandalizing of the Al-Nurayn mosque in Qusra in the West Bank on Monday. [...]
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EU States Divided on Palestinian Statehood Bid:
European Union governments sought a common approach on Friday to a possible Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month but deep policy differences looked set to undermine the efforts.
Austria’s Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said one solution could be for the EU to propose its own resolution to the UN on the sensitive issue but other diplomats said privately that several EU capitals opposed the idea.
Speaking to reporters at a seaside resort [...]
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