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EU finance ministers agree on new e-commerce VAT rules

By Irene Kostaki

EU agrees on new tax haven blacklist of 17 countries

By Irene Kostaki

S&D welcomes Eurogroup’s next leader

Portugal’s Mario Centeno wins Eurogroup presidency race

By Irene Kostaki

Eurogroup decides: The four candidate ministers ready to vote

By Irene Kostaki

epa05853857 (FILE) - A file picture dated 26 January 2016 shows a British Union flag flutters next to European Union (EU) flags ahead avisits of then British Prime Minister Cameron at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Britain is the first-ever country to leave the EU after a narrow majority voted to leave in a UK-wide referendum held on 23 June 2016. The 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome is marked on 25 March 2017. The treaty was signed on 25 March 1957 at Campidoglio Palace in Rome by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany to form the European Economic Community (ECC). It continues to be one of the most important ones in the history of the European Union (EU). EPA/LAURENT DUBRULE

EU could approve next week start of trade talks with Britain

epa06037319 British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) welcomes Irish new Taoiseach Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar (R) to 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, 19 June 2017. Taoiseach Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on a first foreign visit meets with British PM May to discuss Brexit negotiations which started today. EPA/ANDY RAIN

Brexit talks on track: London offers assurances on the Irish border

By NEOnline | IR

Prees conference after the Eurogroup finance Ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 5, 2016 New Europe / Alexandros Michailidis

Four finance ministers to run for Eurogroup president position

By Irene Kostaki

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European Commission to announce European Monetary Fund on December 6

By NEOnline | IR

Dublin demands a UK guarantee of an open border by Friday

By NEOnline | IR

epa06272822 The controversial herbicide Roundup, which contains glyphosate, pictured in a garden in Hoechenschwand, Germany, 18 October 2017. Roundup is manufactured by the Monsanto company in St. Louis, USA. Germany's chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer intends to acquire Monsanto Corporation. EPA-EFE/STEFFEN SCHMIDT

Monsanto lobby secures renewal of license for Roundap

By NEOnline | IR

epa06347428 German acting Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) Summit in Brussels, Belgium, 24 November 2017. The summit brings together EU heads of states or government with six former Soviet states Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. EPA-EFE/Virginia Mayo / POOL

A school in Tbilisi and tensions over Karabakh: the Eastern partnership summit in Brussels

epa06254597 President of Eurogroup and Dutch Finance Minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem arrives for the Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg, 09 October 2017. The Eurogroup will exchange views on the possible future roles and tasks of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in the context of the ongoing broader debate on the future of the Economic and Monetary Union. EPA-EFE/JULIEN WARNAND

Eurogroup considers list of Dijsselbloem’s apirant successors

By NEOnline | IR

epa06297369 Steam rises from the brown coal-fired power plant Niederaussem operated by RWE in Bergheim, Germany, 29 October 2017. The UN Climate Change Conference COP23 will take place in Bonn from 06 to 17 November 2017, only a few kilometers away from Europe's largest carbon dioxide source, the Rhenish Brown Coal Field. EPA-EFE/SASCHA STEINBACH

EU ambassadors endorse ETS reform deal with European Parliament

By New Europe Online/KG

epa06301842 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Anders Samuelsen attends a press conference featuring the Nordic foreign ministers on the second day of the 69th Session of the Nordic Council in Helsinki, Finland, 01 November 2017. The council is under the topic 'The most integrated region in the World. The Nordic Region, where mutual trust is a strength and freedom of movement is top of the agenda' EPA-EFE/MARKKU OJALA

Denmark blames Sweden for EU agency loss

epa06331444 French President Emmanuel Macron (C) and Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP23 in Bonn, Germany, 15 November 2017. The 23rd session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC), the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference COP23 will take place from 06 to 17 November in Bonn, the seat of the Climate Change Secretariat, under the presidency of Fiji. EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK

German politics puts a dent in European reforms

epa06246572 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko talks to media during his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Minsk, Belarus, 05 October 2017. Maduro arrives from his Moscow visit to Belarus to hold talks with top officials on bilateral cooperation in housing construction, industrial development, and trade. EPA-EFE/TATYANA ZENKOVICH

Lukashenka declines to come to EU – Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels

epa06285493 European Council President Donald Tusk delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 24 October 2017 during the debate on a roadmap for the future of Europe. EPA-EFE/PATRICK SEEGER

EU’s Tusk in trouble in Poland

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Paris inherits European Banking Authority from London

By NEOnline | IR

epa06065044 Illustration of the closed European parliament as Session is Taking place at Strasbourg, in Brussels, Belgium, 04 July 2017. During this session of the European parliament, a discussion regarding the opportunity to make all plenary session with only one seat in Brussels and change the European Parliament seat in Strasbourg to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET

Amsterdam inherits European Medicines Agency from London

By NEOnline | IR

epa04149535 Drugs are packed at the pharmaceutical company Takeda in Oranienburg, Germany, 01 April 2014. The Japanese company plans to invest about 100 million euros in the extension of its production capacities and in the creation of 158 new jobs. About 7.6 billion pills and capsules are produced here annually that are exported to about 100 countries. EPA/BERND SETTNIK

Croatia, Ireland and Malta withdraw from European Medicines Agency Brexit relocation vote

By Irene Kostaki

epa06285492 European Council President Donald Tusk delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 24 October 2017 during the debate on a roadmap for the future of Europe. EPA-EFE/PATRICK SEEGER

Tusk describes Poland’s policy as ‘Kremlin’s plan’

epa06335794 President of the European Council Donald Tusk (L) and Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven speaks during the EU Social Summit for Fair Jobs and Growth in Gothenburg, Sweden, 17 November 2017. The Social Summit will gather EU heads of state or government, the social partners and other key stakeholders for an open discussion on how to promote fair jobs and growth. EPA-EFE/JONAS EKSTROEMER SWEDEN OUT

EU Social Policy Summit: consensus on principles, but little on policy

By NEOnline | IR

epa05675620 A woman walks in front of London's financial district Canary Wharf in London, Britain, 14 December 2016. Tens of thousands of banking jobs could be lost to continental Europe from next year if ministers do not agree a transitional deal on single market access with the EU, a Lords report on financial services after Brexit is expected to warn. EPA/HANNAH MCKAY

Goodby London: EU votes on Monday on new seats for EBA and EMA

By NEOnline | IR

epa06334855 Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for an EU Social Summit for Fair Jobs and Growth in Gothenburg, Sweden, 17 November 2017. The Social Summit will gather EU heads of state or government, the social partners and other key stakeholders for an open discussion on how to promote fair jobs and growth. EPA-EFE/JONAS EKSTROEMER/TT SWEDEN OUT

May tries to reassure EU on UK commitments

epa06242655 Demonstrators take part in the 'Black Protest' to protect women's rights in Warsaw, Poland, 03 October 2017. Thousands of women and supportive men took part in demonstrations across Poland as a reminder of 2016 protests known as a 'Black Monday' against total abortion ban law and to support women's rights in Poland. EPA-EFE/JACEK TURCZYK POLAND OUT

EU Parliament calls on Poland to respect fundamental rights, including women’s rights

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