EU leaders concerned about US police action
EU leaders expressed concern about US police action linked to the extrajudicial killing of African-American George Floyd by the police.
EU Sets Up Financial Crime Unit As Pandemic Poses New Risks
The European Union on Friday set up a unit of investigators to tackle an expected surge in financial crime in the economic downturn triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and crack down on defrauding of state subsidies.
Post-Brexit Deal Vital amid Coronavirus Crisis: EU
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator told Britain on Sunday that the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus crisis made it especially important the sides reach a new trade deal.
Border Closures, Pre-Travel Tests of Little Use against COVID-19 Spread
Border closures do little to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the European Union’s public health agency said, as EU states weight lifting some travel restrictions imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.
EU Won’t Recognize Any Changes to 1967 Borders of Israel
European Union High Representative Josep Borrell said the 27-member bloc will not recognize any changes to the 1967 borders.
INSTEX Transactions Unsatisfactory
Iran’s deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy expressed dissatisfaction with the volume of transactions that Tehran has been able to carry via a financial mechanism the EU has devised for trade with the Islamic Republic, known as INSTEX.
Zarif, Borrell Hold Telephone Talks
Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU's Josep Borrell discussed a range of issues in a telephone conversation on Friday.
New York, the Capital City of Coronavirus
The media disputes among state governors of the U.S. in facing with the management of the U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House in his ways of dealing with the Coronavirus crisis in New York and Washington are totally different.
Shift of Power from West to East Inescapable
An American academic and political analyst said the COVID-19 crisis has revealed all inequalities and disparities of the Western society, stressing that the shift of power from the West to the East is inescapable.
Tectonic Power Shifts Underway , Outcome Uncertain
The US and European countries’ potential economic decline as a result of the coronavirus crisis has laid the seeds for a shift of global tectonic plates to China, the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said.