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The European Union has requested clarifications from Cairo in regards to the judiciary's recent decision to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and all its activities, as well as confiscate its...

The EU's Middle East envoy, Andreas Reinicke, has confirmed that the union's policy regarding companies based in Israeli settlements will be implemented as scheduled on the first of January...

Israel's Maariv newspaper has revealed that the EU is discussing with Israel ways to circumvent the new EU policy that bars it from funding Israeli projects beyond the green...

A senior official from the European Union has visited Israel to inform the government that it will find a solution to ensure Israel's participation in the scientific Horizon 2020...

The European Union has denied claims that they intend to suspend financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority if the American brokered peace talks with Israel fail. The High Representative...

Amnesty International (AI) has denounced the reaction of the European Union (EU) to the growing Syrian refugee crisis. So far, EU member states have only opened their doors to...

Israel has officially become a full member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, which owns the world's largest particle physics laboratory on the French-Swiss border....

Egypt is not moving towards democracy under its military rulers, warns think-tank the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in a new policy memo published the week before a...

It is generally assumed that there can be no progress in resolving the Israel – Palestine conflict without leadership from the US. As Brent Snowcroft, the former US National...

Aside from the debate over its relative success or failure, the political dialogue in Tunisia marked the end of one turbulent era and the beginning of another, perhaps more...

By Dr Bassem Naeem The European Union's foreign policy chief has visited Gaza for the second time. Cathy Ashton's visit on 18 July came several months after her first...

By Omar Radwan The Israeli government has announced that it will refuse any invitation to start direct negotiations with the Palestinians issued by the diplomatic Quartet responsible for mediating...

A leaked report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has concluded that Israeli settlement construction "remains the single biggest threat" to peace in the Middle East. The confidential, 15-page report...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a $3.9 billion national budget for the 2013 fiscal year just one day before the March 31 deadline. The budget was approved without the...

Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has made no secret of his feelings about the apparent détente between Iran and the US. In a speech to the UN earlier this...