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Macron calls for EU emergency response system to control borders

9 Dec 2021

By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -The European Union needs an emergency response mechanism that a member state can trigger when the bloc’s external borders are under threat, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. Migration crises along the EU’s eastern flank this autumn underlined Europe’s need to strengthen its ability to control …

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U.S. officials to discuss tightening Iran sanctions compliance on UAE trip

9 Dec 2021

By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States will send a senior government delegation to the United Arab Emirates next week to meet with banks over concerns about Iran sanctions compliance, a State Department spokesperson said on Thursday, as nuclear talks with Iran stall. The move suggests Washington is looking to crank up economic …

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French envoy says Australia “in denial” over subs row, trust regained with U.S

9 Dec 2021

BANGKOK (Reuters) – France has restored “a degree of trust” with ally the United States but not with Australia after a debacle over Canberra’s cancellation of a multi-billion dollar submarine deal with Paris, a French regional envoy said on Thursday. Christophe Penot, ambassador for the Indo-Pacific, said the rift with Canberra continues because the Australian …

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“It was busy”: Danish PM defends mink cull oversight

9 Dec 2021

By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Thursday defended her government’s decision to cull all mink in Denmark last year, despite lacking the legal basis to do so, and said the oversight happened because “it was busy”. In efforts to forestall the spread of a mutated variant of the coronavirus, the government …

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EU to avoid membership talk at summit with eastern states, draft says

9 Dec 2021

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A European Union summit with the bloc’s eastern neighbours will confirm support for Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in their bid to move closer to the bloc but make no promise of future EU membership, according to a draft final statement. In part overshadowed by the Belarus crisis, the EU …

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Britain sending 140 engineers to Polish border with Belarus

9 Dec 2021

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will send 140 military engineers to Poland this month to provide support at its border with Belarus, the Ministry of Defence said, in response to what it termed pressures from “irregular migration”. Britain already has personnel in its NATO ally Poland, amid tensions at the EU’s border with Belarus. The bloc …

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EU must uphold migrants’ fundamental rights at Belarus border, Germany says

9 Dec 2021

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Legal standards must be respected at the Belarus border, Germany said on Thursday, as EU interior ministers met to discuss curbing some migrants’ rights to ward off what the bloc has called a hybrid attack by Minsk. The ministers will consider a proposal by the European Commission that would allow Poland, Lithuania and …

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France frees Saudi man mistakenly held over Khashoggi killing

9 Dec 2021

By Alain Acco and Tangi Salaün PARIS (Reuters) – France on Wednesday released a Saudi national arrested at a Paris airport over suspected links to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after officials concluded it was a case of mistaken identity. French law enforcement sources had identified the man in detention as Khaled Aedh Al-Otaibi, …

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Germany’s Baerbock says common European response needed on Beijing Olympics

9 Dec 2021

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Thursday that Europe needed to find a common response on the issue of a diplomatic boycott of February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. She said the case of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose whereabouts have become a matter of international concern following her allegations of …

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Nigerians displaced by insurgency fear being forced to return home

9 Dec 2021

By Libby George MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Hauwa Ahmadu Kukuda rakes straw from the top of the two-room shack she shares with eight children. Goats jostle for it as the children crouch next to tarp-covered walls. Outside, row after dusty row stretches for miles in the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern …

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