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Montevideo, August 23rd 2025 - 02:44 UTC

Tag: European Union

  • Thursday, June 6th 2024 - 08:40 UTC

    EU votes a new parliament; political center could be removed by radical right wing coalition

    Across all 27 countries, opinion polls show that economic and social policy is still the biggest issue affecting how people cast their ballot (Pic Reuters)

    Mobilizing the 350 million people eligible to cast ballots in the European Union event once every five years is not a straightforward task. Voter turnout at the second-largest democratic election in the world after India was around just 50% in 2019. There are 720 seats in the EU Parliament with elections traditionally held over four days.

  • Wednesday, May 29th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Venezuela withdraws invitation to EU as election observers

    Amoroso claimed the EU was unworthy of an invitation given its colonialist stance

    Venezuelan authorities announced Tuesday they were withdrawing the invitation previously extended to the European Union (RU) to monitor the July 28 elections in a move that cast additional doubts over a process that has for long looked fudgy following the disenfranchisement of opposition leader María Corina Machado.

  • Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 12:25 UTC

    Brexit and UK's rising costs of implementing customs to EU imports

    Long queues of lorries at Dover, because of physical checks at ports. Photo: Pajor Pawel / Shutterstock

    The UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016 but remained in the bloc's single market and customs union until 2021. When UK withdrew from the EU customs union a new RU/UK Trade Cooperation Agreement (TCA) went into effect.

  • Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:36 UTC

    Milei's deficient diplomacy triggers concurring responses

    Milei keeps steering Argentine into diplomatic conflicts owing to mere “ideological tantrums of the president,” Lousteau stressed

    The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell criticized Argentine President Javier Milei for his derogatory remarks in Madrid targetting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife Begoña Gómez and insisted that “attacks against relatives of political leaders have no place in our culture.” Borrell thus became just another voice condemning the South American leader's attitude.

  • Monday, May 6th 2024 - 20:34 UTC

    After EU June elections, agreement with Mercosur can be reached: “A matter of time and timing”, EU negotiator

    For Rupert Schlegelmilch, the agreement with Mercosur “is a complicated process but it is a also matter of time and timing”

    The Mercosur/European Union trade and cooperation agreement, “is a complicated process but it is also a matter of time and timing”, according to Rupert Schlegelmilch, chief EU negotiator of the accord who recently visited Mercosur country and associate members to meet government officials and business groups to confirm EU's determination to finish the deal.

  • Friday, March 8th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

    No backtracking on Rule 1115, EU envoy tells Paraguayan producers

    Pitto also said his trip was to “see the efforts” Paraguay was making to guarantee that its products” do not come from deforested land

    European Union (EU) Environment Commission envoy Emanuele Pitto told Paraguayan exporters Thursday in Asunción that there would be no turning back from Rule 1115 banning raw materials and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation. The measure not allowing imports nor exports of these goods has been in force since June 29 last year.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2024 - 02:08 UTC

    Argentina leads in complying with EU deforestation legislation

    Argentine exporters have shipped 46,000 tons of soybean meal from over 570 production units

    Deforestation-free soybeans to the European Union, guess who is taking the lead? Believe it or not Argentina have sent three soy-meal shipments via the Visec platform, each with fully traceable data. By the second semester, the entire soybean chain in the country will utilize the platform making Argentina the first country to fully comply with deforestation legislation implemented by the European Parliament.

  • Thursday, February 29th 2024 - 11:40 UTC

    EU-Mercosur deal not this year, Peña says

    Neither Mercosur nor Paraguay will stand idly waiting for Europe's decisions, Peña stressed

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña, who holds the pro-tempore presidency of the South American Common Market (Mercosur), ruled out Wednesday in Madrid an agreement with the European Union (EU) this year while insisting that his trip to Spain was more to offer than to ask.

  • Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 07:29 UTC

    EU sending naval mission to protect international shipping in the Red Sea

    The measures come in response to increased attacks by Yemen's Houthis, who have been launching missile and drone attacks in the vital shipping corridor.

    The European Union will be sending three European warships and airborne early warning systems to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, to protect international shipping, following a meeting of EU foreign ministers

  • Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

    Germany size algae bloom around Falklands caught by Copernicus sentinel satellite

    The EU's Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, offers a sweeping view of an algae bloom around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic

    The European Union Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission back in November 2023 documented a vast algae bloom around the Falkland Islands, highlighting the interplay with oceanic currents, points out a report from SciTechDaily.