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Net migration to the United Kingdom reaches a record of 504,000 in 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics. The record increase is primarily due to non-EU migration, the resumption of post-pandemic travel, the arrival of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees, and immigration from Hong Kong.
2022-11-24

The European Union sanctions Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij paramilitary military, and its morality police in response to the repression of the Mahsa Amini protests.
2022-10-17

European Union foreign ministers agree to suspend a visa facilitation agreement with Russia, making it more difficult and more expensive for Russian tourists to enter the EU.
2022-08-31

The European Union restricts the validity of the EU Digital COVID certificate to only nine months after having received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
2022-02-1

Royal Marines seize control of an oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar that was en route to Baniyas in Syria, suspected of breaching EU sanctions against Syria, carrying Iranian crude oil. The United Kingdom's Ambassador to Iran, Robert Macaire, is summoned in Tehran over the incident, which Iran describes as an "illegal seizure".
2019-07-4

According to an opinion poll, a majority of British citizens now want the United Kingdom to leave the European Union as voter anxiety rises over the bloc's handling of a crisis provoked by an influx of migrants into Europe. A referendum on the United Kingdom's EU membership is scheduled to take place before the end of 2017.
2015-11-24

Bailouts for Greece's financial system are challenged in a German court amid concerns that the result may rock the European Union.
2011-07-5

The Greek parliament holds a vote of confidence in government cuts associated with a new €12 billion loan from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
2011-06-21

Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen, speaking in Copenhagen, becomes the first European Union leader to tell Mubarak to resign, saying Mubarak is "history" and that he "made a huge blunder yesterday" by giving his non-resignation speech.
2011-02-11

Palestinian leaders express disappointment at the refusal of the Middle East Quartet — United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia — to hear their call for unilateral statehood and failure to take a strong stance on Israel's settlement construction at its February 5 meeting in Munich.
2011-02-6