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Germany's traffic light coalition government announces border restrictions on all its national land borders, including those with other EU nations, for at least six months in order to combat irregular migration from asylum seekers.
2024-09-9

Ukraine's foreign ministry says that any European Union plans to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian food would be "illegal" and would harm common economic interests.
2023-09-14

The UK Audit Office rejects a Treasury estimate of the cost of leaving the European Union that was repeated by Prime Minister Theresa May. Rather than the official £35–39 billion estimate, the watchdog says that figure misleadingly included £7.2 billion earmarked directly for private hands and did not include up to £3 billion in budget contributions and £2.9 billion in European Development Fund payments.
2018-04-20

The European Union extends its main Ukraine-related economic sanctions against Russia for six months until mid-2017.
2016-12-15

A number of analysts, including Ralf Preusser from Bank of America and Ric Deverell from Credit Suisse, believe that the United Kingdom economy is heading into a recession.
2016-06-27

European Union and Turkish officials agree on how to handle the flood of refugees. The deal, to return irregular migrants to Turkey, includes acceleration of the country's long-stalled bid for membership in the union; billions of euros in extra aid, 3 billion euros now, another 3 billion by 2018; and, visa-free travel for Turks once the country satisfies the EU criteria. Europe will be taking in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey. Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) strongly condemns the deal as "ugly and illegal." The agreement is set to go into effect Sunday, March 20, 2016.
2016-03-18

European Union officials send a letter to U.S. attorney general Eric Holder with seven detailed questions requesting concrete explanations about the country's data snooping programs and how it affects EU citizens ahead of a meeting in Dublin this Friday.
2013-06-11

The European Union threatens trade sanctions against Iceland and the Faroe Isles over a disagreement about fishing rights.
2012-03-19

Thousands of people are expected to demonstrate in Dublin against European Union - International Monetary Fund budget cuts.
2011-07-16

Officials from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union arrive in Dublin to discuss the Irish debt crisis with the Irish Government.
2010-11-18