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      <text>Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union</text>
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    <text>Negotiations on the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union begin in Brussels. </text>
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      <text>The European Union provides Fiji a $US23.4 million budget to help the Pacific country fight the COVID-19 pandemic. This move comes after Fiji closed its embassy in Brussels amid a closure of several Fijian embassies around the world. </text>
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    <text>The European Union provides Fiji with a US$23.4 million budget to help the Pacific country fight the COVID-19 pandemic. This move comes after Fiji closed its embassy in Brussels amid a closure of several Fijian embassies around the world. </text>
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    <text>Belgian Minister of Transportation Jacqueline Galant resigns in the wake of the recent bombings that shook Brussels last March. Galant resigned amid accusations her ministry ignored EU criticism of security at Belgium's airports. </text>
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    <text>The European Union and Turkey agree on broad principles for a plan to ease the migration crisis which includes returning thousands of migrants to Turkey. For this, the EU will swiftly ease visa requirements for Turks and speed up Ankara's EU accession talks. A final agreement is to be ready for next week's two-day EU summit in Brussels, Belgium. </text>
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    <text>Eleven European and Balkan leaders meet about the migrant crisis at an emergency summit in Brussels, Belgium; Turkey did not attend. The Prime Minister of Slovenia says the EU will ‘start falling apart’ within weeks if the migrant crisis continues unchecked. Huge divisions remain among EU states over how to deal with the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants. </text>
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    <text>European Union ministers meet in Brussels and reach agreement on a plan to distribute asylum seekers. </text>
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    <text>David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, refuses to join a European Union financial crisis accord after negotiations in Brussels. </text>
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    <text>Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi ignores his recent sex scandals to claim to the media at a summit in Brussels that he is the most popular national leader in the European Union. </text>
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    <text>EU envoys in the Middle East are urging Brussels to treat East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state. </text>
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    <text>Foreign ministers from the European Union meet in Brussels and &quot;strongly condemn&quot; the use of forged passports from various European countries in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. </text>
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  <text>Cuba and the European Union sign an accord in Brussels to normalize relations, formally ending the Common Position which was adopted by the Council of the European Union in 1996. </text>
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