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EU to provide extra USD 118mn in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], September 15 (ANI): European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday said the bloc will increase its humanitarian aid for Afghanistan by extra 100 million euros to avert the humanitarian disaster in the country.
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EU-US trade and technology council to be launched in September
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], September 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The EU-US Trade and Technology Council is to be launched later this month, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission executive vice-president, said on Tuesday.
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No hurry to recognise or to establish official relations with Taliban: EU
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], September 2 (ANI): The European Union is in no hurry to recognise the Taliban nor to establishing official relations with the group, said Gunnar Wiegand, the European Commission's managing director for Asia and the Pacific on Wednesday.
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EU to convene forum on resettlement of Afghans in need in September
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 31 (ANI/Sputnik) - The European Commission will organize a special high-level forum in September to discuss the resettlement of needy Afghans, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said on Tuesday.
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EU reaches its goal as 70 per cent adults fully vaccinated
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium] August 31 (ANI/FENA): The European Union has achieved its first goal of mass vaccination against coronavirus, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced today.
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Afghan crisis: Protest in Belgium against Taliban, Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 30 (ANI): Afghan diaspora in Belgium held a protest demonstration at Schuman Circle against the Taliban's hostile takeover of Afghanistan and against Pakistan for its alleged involvement and support to the terror group.
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IATA backs European digital Covid certificate as global standard
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Aug 28 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has commended the European Commission for its leadership and speed in delivering the EU Digital Covid Certificate (DCC) and urged states to make it their global standard for digital vaccine certificates.
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EU asks member states to offer safe legal pathways out of Afghanistan for
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 26 (ANI/Sputnik): EU member states should come up with safe legal pathways for people who are particularly at risk, such as female judges and human rights activists, to travel from militant-controlled Afghanistan to Europe, Eric Mamer, the chief spokesman for the E
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G7 leaders agree to help Afghans, secure Kabul airport to complete evacuat
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 25 (ANI): European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday said that G7 leaders agreed to help the Afghan people amid the current situation in the war-torn country and the need to secure the Kabul airport as long as necessary to complete the evacuat
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EU poured USD 66 Mln in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan in 2021: C
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium] August 24 (ANI/Sputnik): The European Union provided 57 million euros (USD 66 million) in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan in 2021 so far, in addition, neighbouring countries hosting Afghan refugees got 22 million euros, European Commission spokesman Balazs Ujvari s
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Brussels: Afghan diaspora protest Taliban takeover, seeks EU's interventio
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 19 (ANI): Hundreds of Afghans protested in front of the European Commission, European Council, and the European External Action Service (EEAS) against the Taliban takeover and urged the 27-nation bloc to save people of Afghanistan from the terror group's inhumane r
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EC slots decision damages sustainability, industry recovery: IATA
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 26 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has branded the European Commission's (EC's) decision to set winter slot use threshold at 50 per cent as 'out of touch with reality' and argued that the EC had ignored advice and evidence presented by EU
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