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Slovak, Spaniard given ambassadorial posts. Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has appointed Peter Zsoldos as the EU's ambassador to Libya and...

Lifting of visa bans against top officials first step in gradual normalisation of relations, ministers say. The European Union today decided to lift a visa ban on top...

It is time for the EU to push for a UN-led commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity committed in Myanmar. Four years ago, the people of Myanmar rose up in a...

A history that provides a useful overview of a country engulfed in civil war. Libya may be vying with Albania for the distinction of being the Mediterranean's most...

Military could be dispatched to north Africa to help with evacuees from Libya, humanitarian deliveries. The European Union's member states today (1 April) decided to set up...

Member states and European Commission will meet tomorrow to discuss fate of thousands of Africans who have fled Libya. A number of Africans who have fled the violence in...

Closed borders putting 'more people at risk' after 180,000 flee turmoil and violence. Kristalina Georgieva, the European commissioner for humanitarian aid, has said that...

11 March meeting to focus on situation in north Africa and the Middle East. EU leaders will hold a summit in Brussels on 11 March to discuss the situation in north Africa...

Discussion focused on aid, violence in Libya and threat of refugee flows. European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels today (21 February) discussed aid to Egypt and...

Burma's elections may not be equal. but they are still important. This Sunday (7 November), the people of Burma – or Myanmar, as the military regime has re-named it –...

Meeting would signal a change of EU policy, while US already has a policy of engagement. Leaders from some European Union member states are planning to meet Thein Sein, the...

The EU must join the UN and the African Union in responding to repression in Guinea. One month ago, over 150 people were gunned down by soldiers in the West African country...

The EU faces the daunting task of trying to get Libya to take responsibility for asylum-seekers, who are forced into crowded detention centres. The dormitories in the...

Maintaining sanctions will not be enough to end the horror in Burma; engagement and ostracisation are both needed. Key decisions about Burma (Myanmar) are pending. The...

Might the EU be about to start 'constructive engagement' with Burma? Experience suggests that would be a mistake. Fraser Cameron makes a well-worn argument for the European...

Isolating Myanmar has failed to produce change; engagement would at least create opportunities. The EU's policy towards Myanmar (Burma) is broke. Sanctions not only do...

A more active role by the UN's secretary-general is one of ways the international community can deepen its engagement with Burma's problems, argues the government-in-exile....

The European Commission is poised to withhold its funding to the Mauritanian fisheries sector worth a total of €301 million over the next four years, after a military...

Louis Michel, the European commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, is trying to meet the leaders over the coming days to secure access for EU aid workers to...

Jonathan Holslag (‘Burma is EU's chance to prove itself', 11-17 October) is right to note the belated willingness of France to discuss its immense investment in the gas...