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EU talks to wrest Serbia-Kosovo deal resume in Brussels

April 17, 2013 06:16
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton hosted an 11th-hour round of Serbia-Kosovo talks Wednesday to wrest a deal bringing the two closer to the bloc within the next months. "The meetings high representative Ashton is hosting today in the framework of the EU-facilitated dialogue for normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina have started," a statement from her office said.

EU to host new effort to wrest Serbia-Kosovo deal

April 16, 2013 13:16
The European Union will host Wednesday another round of Serbia-Kosovo talks amid speculation that a deal is in sight to end years of tensions and pave the way for closer ties with the bloc, officials said. EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton, who has chaired eight rounds of EU-sponsored talks, said Tuesday she had invited Serb Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci to Brussels. "I have asked them to come in a constructive spirit, ready to explore different options and agree to a mutual compromise," she said.

EU lawmakers reject plan to make polluters pay more

April 16, 2013 13:02
European lawmakers defied the European Commission Tuesday to vote down controversial plans to make polluters pay more under a scheme designed to cut greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The European Parliament voted 334 against, with 315 for and 63 abstentions on a proposal to freeze 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emission credits in 2013-15.

EU parliament rejects carbon market rescue fix

April 16, 2013 13:00
By Ben Garside and Barbara Lewis STRASBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union politicians rejected a plan to prop up the world's biggest carbon market on Tuesday, sending it plunging to a new record low and raising questions about its survival. After months of bitter debate, a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg rejected by 19 votes a Commission proposal to remove temporarily some of the oversupply that has overwhelmed the market for permits to emit carbon dioxide.

EU to host new effort to wrest Serbia-Kosovo deal

April 16, 2013 12:47
The European Union will host Wednesday another round of Serbia-Kosovo talks amid speculation that a deal is in sight to end years of tensions and pave the way for closer ties with the bloc, officials said. EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton, who has chaired eight rounds of EU-sponsored talks, said Tuesday she had invited Serb Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci to Brussels. "I have asked them to come in a constructive spirit, ready to explore different options and agree to a mutual compromise," she said.

EU to host new effort to wrest Serbia-Kosovo deal

April 16, 2013 12:16
The European Union will host Wednesday another round of Serbia-Kosovo talks amid speculation that a deal is in sight to end years of tensions and pave the way for closer ties with the bloc, officials said. EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton, who has chaired eight rounds of EU-sponsored talks, said Tuesday she had invited Serb Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci to Brussels. "I have asked them to come in a constructive spirit, ready to explore different options and agree to a mutual compromise," she said.

France tops EU DNA tests for horsemeat in beef

April 16, 2013 12:15
By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other European Union country, results of official DNA tests ordered in the wake of the scandal showed, with more than 1 in every 8 samples testing positive. Announcing the results on Tuesday, the European Commission said that for the EU as a whole, just less than 5 percent of all beef products tested had come back positive for horse DNA.

EU parliament rejects carbon market rescue fix

April 16, 2013 11:30
By Ben Garside and Barbara Lewis STRASBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union politicians rejected a plan to prop up the world's biggest carbon market on Tuesday, sending it plunging to a new record low and raising questions about its survival. After months of bitter debate, a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg rejected by 19 votes a Commission proposal to remove temporarily some of the oversupply that has overwhelmed the market for permits to emit carbon dioxide.

EU parliament rejects carbon market rescue fix

April 16, 2013 09:45
By Ben Garside and Barbara Lewis STRASBOURG/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union politicians rejected a plan to prop up the world's biggest carbon market on Tuesday, sending it plunging to a new record low and raising questions about its survival. After months of bitter debate, a plenary session of European Parliament in Strasbourg rejected by 19 votes a Commission proposal to temporarily remove some of the oversupply that has overwhelmed the market for permits to emit carbon dioxide.

EU lawmakers reject plan to make polluters pay more

April 16, 2013 09:33
European lawmakers defied the European Commission Tuesday to vote down controversial plans to make polluters pay more under a scheme designed to cut greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The European Parliament voted 334 against, with 315 for and 63 abstentions on a proposal to freeze 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emission credits in 2013-15.
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