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EFTA countries sign free-trade agreement with Vietnam

Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Liechtenstein have officially signed a...

Hungary’s PM will allow Ukrainian grain transit as Zelenskyy requested

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally asked Romania, Poland,...

Masked settlers assault European diplomats in occupied West Bank

Masked settlers launched an assault on a group of...

Greenland’s Parliament bans deep-sea mineral extraction

On 16 October, the Greenlandic Parliament unanimously voted to...

European Parliament vehemently opposed to Hungarian anti-LGBTIQ law

Parliament “condemns in the strongest possible terms” the recent anti-LGBTIQ legislation and denounces the dismantling of democracy and the rule of law in Hungary. In...

Nicaragua: MEPs demand the repeal of punitive laws against the opposition

MEPs condemn restrictive laws devised to criminalise political opponents in Nicaragua and call for all arbitrarily detained political prisoners to be immediately released. In a...

New trade strategy for a new geopolitical reality: MEPs on post-COVID trade

Parliament calls for a geopolitical and values-based rethink of EU’s trade in a report on the bloc's trade strategy after the COVID-19 pandemic. The report...

Human rights: MEPs want to extend the EU sanctions regime to cover corruption

On Tuesday, the Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a resolution welcoming the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime while calling for corruption to be included...

Statement on the ongoing detention of opposition leaders in Nicaragua

Leading MEPs condemn the latest escalation in the repression of the opposition in Nicaragua and call for the immediate release of all detained opposition...

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