The EU is ready to provide an ‘’unprecedented’’ package of European political, economic and security support to Israel and the Palestinians if both parties reach a final status agreement in peace talks they started in July.
At a meeting in Brussels on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will brief EU Foreign Ministers on the round of talks she led on behalf of world powers with Iran that led to a ‘joint plan of action’’ regarding the Iranian nuclear program.
The European Court of Auditors, the Luxembourg-based body which describes itself as the ‘’Guardians of EU finances, ’’ denied reports that EU money earmarked to the Palestinian Authority is going to pay salaries of Palestinian prisoneres released by Israel in the framework of the launch of Israeli-Palestininian peace talks.
Bavaria has decided to scrap its plans to publish a reprint of Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' with critical commentary when its legal power to ban the book expires next year.
The group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament slammed the scheduled visit this week of a delegation of members of the parliament to Iran for not setting any preconditions such as the Iranian regime to allow them to meet with opposition activists or debating the human rights situation in the country.
43% of Americans disapprove of interim nuclear agreement; survey also finds accord did not reduce American public's skepticism about Iran's leaders, 62% think Iranian leaders were ''not serious'' about international concerns.
