EU leaders have called on their foreign ministers to consider all options to support the Syrian opposition and put pressure on the Syrian leadership. It comes as the Syrian FM blames sanctions for the country’s humanitarian crisis, asking for UN aid. “Nothing is off the table,” British PM David Cameron warned during the recent EU summit, sending a message to President Assad and urging for an... 

European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen Member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council Erkki Liikanen warns that the worsening financial condition in the eurozone may endanger the ‘German economy’. “Economic developments are causing us concern. No country is immune to the effects of the (EU) debt crisis. Not even the German economy,” said Liikanen on... 

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (L) and Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The European Union is infuriated by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s analogy between Tel Aviv’s policies toward the Palestinians and Europe’s stance toward the Jews during the World War II era. Maja Kocijancic, the spokesperson for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine... 

Jobless Greeks wait outside an unemployment bureau in the capital Athens. The official Greek unemployment rate has risen to 26 percent as the near-bankrupt eurozone country heads toward a sixth year of recession. The Greek statistics office ELSTAT announced on Thursday that the jobless number rose to 1.295 million in September, pushing up the unemployment rate from 25.3 the previous month and 18.9... 

A crane completes a section of the Israeli regime’s separation barrier in Jerusalem, December 5, 2012. The European Union will consider passing a series of sanctions on the Israeli regime over its plan to construct thousands more illegal settler units on the occupied Palestinian land, a report says. The Israeli daily Maariv reported on Thursday that the EU move next week would include marking and... 

Workers marching in downtown Naples, in southeast Italy, during a protest to demand new job opportunities. Official data show that the unemployment rate in the eurozone hit a new record high of 11.7 percent in October as the 17-nation bloc continues to grapple with a worsening financial crisis. The Eurostat data agency said on Friday that a total of 18.7 million people were out of work in October,... 

Russia seriously considers an opportunity to take up the role of a supplier of organic products within the scope of the World Trade Organization. Russian lawmakers are working on the bill to support the production of organic agricultural products. This law will help Russian farmers enter the EU market with organic products. As expected, the bill will be handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture of... 

Facebook’s new privacy policy violates EU law, raising concerns over the sharing of private data with affiliated business without user consent. US privacy experts expressed concern over how Facebook shares this data with advertisers. European Data Protection Commissioner Gary Davis has asked for Facebook to clarify its new changes to users’ privacy policy. As commissioner, Davis is responsible... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Moscow has called on the Arab League and the Middle East Quartet comprising Russia, the European Union (EU), UN, and US, to work together to end frequent Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians. “The Quartet needs…to work together with the Arab League representatives and work out solutions together… to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks,”... 

Credit rating heavyweight Moody’s Investors Service has stripped France of its top AAA rating to Aa1 with a negative outlook, sending a warning to President Hollande’s endeavours to rebuild French economic growth and credibility. ­Moody’s said its decision to downgrade Europe’s second largest economy reflects France’s deteriorating economic outlook, the recession in the wider Eurozone... 

Reuters polls show that the global economy is expected to improve only slightly in 2013. New projections on unemployment in eurozone show that the jobless rate among member countries will hit a new peak at about 12 percent next year. The European Union’s autumn forecast on Wednesday said that unemployment would hit a new peak at 11.8 percent among the 17-nation EU in 2013 and go down slightly to... 

People walking by closed shops in Athens during the 24-hours general strike. Greeks have kicked off a new wave of strikes to protest against fresh austerity measures due to be presented by the government to the parliament. The work stoppage began on Monday as the metro in the capital Athens was shut and taxi drivers halted services. There was also a media blackout on Monday as journalists stopped working... 

The payment of compensations to Holocaust survivors in the former Soviet Republics, which have not integrated into the European Union (EU), begins on November 1. The total sum of compensations will be around 245 million euros, and the receivers are 80,000 Jewish people living in the countries of the post-Soviet space. This decision was made as a result of talks between representatives of the German... 

Thousands of people hold a demonstration outside the Portuguese parliament in the capital Lisbon on October 31, 2012. Thousands of people have gathered outside the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon to protest against the assembly’s approval of the government’s 2013 draft austerity budget. The demonstration was staged on Wednesday after the parliament approved the draft bill, which proposes substantial... 

European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli has resigned. The European Commission says the EU commissioner for health and consumer policy has resigned over allegations of corruption involving tobacco laws. The commission said in a statement that John Dalli stepped down from his post on Tuesday, “following an investigation by OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud office, into a complaint”...