TEHRAN- Trade exchange between Iran and the European Union countries increased 61 percent in the first 10 months of 2017 from the same time in 2016, IRNA reported on Monday. The figure stood at €16.64 billion in the said time, the same report confirmed. Iran’s exports to EU countries was €8.24 billion and its imports […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is “seriously tired” of waiting for the European Union to decide whether to accept his country as a member of the bloc. The Turkish leader made the comments during a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday, making it plain that Ankara […]

The European Union (EU) has condemned the preliminary endorsement of a bill at the Israeli parliament, which would ease conditions for courts to sentence what they call “terrorists” to death, saying the measure is “incompatible with human dignity.”  The death penalty “constitutes inhuman and degrading treatment, does not have any proven deterrent effect and allows […]

The U.S. administration’s brazen recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was met with global shock and condemnation. It is now imperative that the EU translate its words into action, making clear that it will not support U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement and will take concrete steps to end complicity in Israel’s shameless flouting […]

TEHRAN- Iran’s exports to Europe grew 122 percent in October, in comparison with the same month in 2016, European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat reported. The figure reached €986 million in October from its previous €443 million in the same period in 2016. Iran-Europe trade in the named month increased by 54 percent and stood at […]

Joanne Adamson, the EU ambassador to the UN, said on Tuesday that the 2015 nuclear deal is “achievement of multilateral diplomacy.” The nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed between Iran, the European Union, Germany and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, […]

The European Union (EU)’s executive branch may start an unprecedented disciplinary process against Poland over its judicial reforms, which the EU says are in violation of the bloc’s human rights and democratic values. The European Commission intends to invoke the never-before-used Article 7 of the EU’s founding Lisbon Treaty in its bid to punish Warsaw over […]

Andy Storey, the professor of Politics and International Relations of Dublin University believes that Trump’s recklessness may inadvertantly preciptate a faster decline of the US than would otherwise have occurred, and possibly a desire on the part of European elites to create, for example, an independent military capacity. Rise of Donald Trump changed the face […]

TEHRAN _ Andy Storey, the professor of Politics and International Relations of Dublin University believes that Trump’s recklessness may inadvertantly preciptate a faster decline of the U.S. than would otherwise have occurred, and possibly a desire on the part of European elites to create, for example, an independent military capacity. Rise of Donald Trump changed […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed that the European Union’s backing for the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is appropriate but not sufficient. Speaking upon his arrival in the Italian capital of Rome on Thursday, Zarif said he will reiterate in his […]