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2000 Dec 6 |
A European Union summit began in Nice to prepare for expansion to 27 or more members. Links: France, EU 
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2000 Dec 7 |
Some 4,000 protestors clashed with police at the opening of the EU summit in Nice. Links: EU, Summit
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2000 Dec 11 |
The EU in Nice reached a compromise in the early hours on a treaty that gave the 4 most populous countries a stronger voice in decision making and paved the way for as many as 13 new members over the next decade. Links: France, EU
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2000 Dec 22 |
The US, Japan, Europe and other industrial powers agreed to provide debt relief to 22 poor nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bolivia, Guyana, Honduras and Nicaragua. Links: Benin, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, USA, Japan, Cameroon, EU, Malawi, Rwanda, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Guyana, Madagascar, Sao Tome, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea
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2001 Mar 4 |
Swiss voters rejected membership talks with the EU by 77%. Links: Switzerland, EU
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2001 Mar 6 |
The EU ordered all livestock markets closed for 2 weeks to contain foot-and-mouth disease. Links: EU, Microbiology
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2001 Mar 19 |
In Turkey the Cabinet approved a detailed program of political, economic and legal reforms to secure entry to the EU. Links: Turkey, EU
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2001 Mar 22 |
Two Albanians were killed by Macedonian police at a checkpoint when they appeared to pull grenades. The EU urged Macedonia to show restraint and intensify discussions with Albanian militants. Links: Albania, EU, Macedonia
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2001 Mar 24 |
EU leaders ended a 2 day meeting in Stockholm announced that they would dispatch a team of mediators to help the peace process between North and South Korea. Links: North Korea, EU, South Korea, Sweden
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2001 Mar 28 |
The EU expressed concern over Pres. Bush’s abandonment of the Kyoto Treaty for cutting carbon dioxide emissions. Links: EU, Environment, BushGW
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2001 Apr 30 |
It was reported that Germany’s Chancellor Schroeder had proposed a draft for turning the EU Executive Commission into a European government and giving the EU Parliament full power over the 15-nation budget. Links: Germany, EU
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2001 May 2 |
In North Korea Kim Jong Il agreed to hold talks with visiting EU officials about his missile program and tensions with South Korea. Kim Jong Il announced that North Korea would launch no ballistic missiles until 2003. Links: North Korea, EU
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2001 May 14 |
The European Commission announced that it would establish diplomatic ties with North Korea. Links: North Korea, EU
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2001 Jun 8 |
Irish voters rejected the EU’s Nice treaty to pave the way for 12 new members. The Irish reportedly feared immigrants in search of jobs and participation in an EU Rapid Reaction Force. Links: EU, Ireland
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2001 Jun 14 |
Pres. Bush clashed with EU leaders in Sweden over his global warming policy, unwavering in his opposition to a global warming treaty. The EU leaders said they would move to implement the Kyoto treaty without the US. Links: USA, EU, Environment, Sweden, BushGW
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2001 Jun 16 |
In Goteborg, Sweden, 15 EU leaders ended a 3-day summit and agreed to a firm timetable to admit new members by 2004. Links: EU, Sweden
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2001 Jul 3 |
General Electric's $41 billion purchase of Honeywell International was vetoed by the European Union. It was the first time a merger of two U.S. companies was stopped solely by European regulators. Links: EU, M&A
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2001 Aug 13 |
In Macedonia a peace deal was signed by rival leaders of the 2 main ethnic groups and paved the way for NATO troops to arrive and disarm ethnic Albanian rebels. Representatives of the EU, USA and NATO helped Macedonian politicians produce a plan for peace at Lake Ohrid called the Ohrid agreement. Links: Albania, USA, EU, NATO, Macedonia
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2001 Sep 9 |
EU foreign ministers agreed on the need for a new int’l. military force to provide security in Macedonia after NATO withdrawal. Links: EU, NATO, Macedonia
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2001 Sep 27 |
The WTO issued a blueprint for a new round of talks scheduled for Nov 9 in Qatar. It called for concessions from the US, EU and Japan in opening markets for textiles, steel and agriculture. Links: Qatar, USA, Japan, EU, WTO, Agriculture
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2001 Oct 4 |
The EU made a joint announcement with Spain that the Basque ETA would be put on the list of terrorist organizations whose assets would be frozen by the EU. Links: Spain, EU, Basques, ETA
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2001 Oct 10 |
The EU and leaders of several African nations agreed on a "Marshall Plan for Africa" to combat poverty and disease and allow access to markets in the industrialized world. Links: EU, Africa
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2001 Oct 19 |
EU leaders pledged their continued support for the US-led campaign in Afghanistan. Links: USA, EU, Afghan
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2001 Oct |
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in a case against airport noise that people have a fundamental right to a good night’s sleep. Links: EU, Sleep
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2001 Nov 5 |
Baxter said its dialysis filters appear to have played a role in the deaths of 53 patients in Texas, Nebraska, and 6 countries in Europe, south America and Asia. Links: EU, Medical, Texas, Nebraska
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2001 Nov 8 |
The European Central Bank and the Bank of England lowered interest rates by half a percent. Links: Britain, EU
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2001 Nov 23 |
In Britain PM Blair endorsed British adoption of the Euro. Links: Britain, EU, Money
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2001 Nov 23 |
The Council of Europe ratified the Budapest Convention which allowed one country to give chase, at least electronically, to criminals in another. Links: Hungary, EU
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2001 Dec 13 |
In Belgium some 80,000 antiglobalization protesters rallied in Brussels against an EU summit set to start the next day. Links: Belgium, EU
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2001 Dec 14 |
European leaders agreed to send 4,000 troops to Afghanistan. Links: EU, Afghan
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2001 Dec 14 |
European nations began distributing a "Eurokit" of euro coins in advance of the Jan 1 day when the euro becomes legal tender. Links: EU, Money
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2001 Dec 15 |
EU leaders concluded a 2-day Council at Laeken, Belgium. The adoption of the Laeken Declaration on the Future of Europe, established the European Convention. A constitutional convention was planned. This process was supposed to simplify the EU’s legal architecture. The admittance of 10 new members over the next 2 years was also planned. The EU declared their nascent joint military force operational. Links: Belgium, EU
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2001 Dec 16 |
The EU held a weekend summit near Brussels and declared their nascent joint military force operational. A constitutional convention was planned as well as the admittance of 10 new members over the next 2 years. Links: Belgium, EU
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2001 Dec 28 |
The EU expanded its list of terrorist organizations to include Irish, Basque, Greek and Middle Eastern extremist groups. Links: Spain, EU, Palestine, Greece, Ireland, Lebanon, Basques, ETA
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2001 |
An EU directive gave member nations until 2006 to comply with an art sale levy, droit de suite (right of continuation), allowing artists to claim a sliding scale royalty on the resale price of their works selling for over 1000 euros. Links: Artist, EU
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The EU began work on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). The final package was expected to come into force in April, 2007. Links: EU, Chemistry
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At Washington’s request the UN Security Council ordered that the assets of Yassin Qadi, a Saudi businessman and multimillionaire, be frozen soon after the Sep 11 attacks in NYC. He was alleged to be a financier of Islamic terrorism with close links to al-Qaida. The EU froze the assets of Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi businessman, and the Al-Barakaat International Foundation, a Sweden-based charity suspected of funding al-Qaida terror groups. In 2008 the EU's highest court overturned the decision saying the order failed to offer those on a terror blacklist any legal rights to a judicial review under European law. Also frozen were the assets of Omar Mohammed Othman, also known as Abu Qatada, an extremist Muslim preacher from Jordan. In 2009 an EU court voided the freeze on Othman due to lack of proper judicial review. Othman has lived in Britain since 1993, has been arrested several times there under anti-terrorist legislation and currently faced deportation to Jordan. Links: Britain, USA, EU, UN, Sweden, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, al-Qaida
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The Generation IV International Forum (IGF) was established to coordinate the development of new nuclear reactors. Members included America, Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Japan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland and Euratom, the EU’s nuclear body. Links: Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Britain, USA, France, China, Japan, Switzerland, EU, South Korea, South Africa, Nuclear
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2002 Jan 1 |
In Europe 50 billion new euro coins and 14 billion new euro notes began circulating in 12 participating countries in the most ambitious currency changeover in history: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands and Portugal Links: Austria, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, EU, Netherlands, Greece, Money, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg
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2002 Jan 14 |
The World Trade Organization (WTO) decided the European Union could ask for punitive tariffs on U.S. imports. Links: USA, EU, WTO
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2002 Feb 16 |
Zimbabwe expelled Pierre Schori, head of the EU's 150-member mission to observe elections. EU officials threatened sanctions. Links: EU, Zimbabwe
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2002 Feb 18 |
The EU ordered home from Zimbabwe its 30-member observer team and voted to impose sanctions, which included cutting off $110 million in aid, a ban on travel to the EU by Mugabe and 20 Cabinet members and freezing of assets. Links: EU, Zimbabwe
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2002 Mar 1 |
Envisat ("Environmental Satellite"), an Earth-observing satellite, was launched aboard an Ariane 5 from the Guyana Space Center in Kourou, French Guyana. After losing contact with the satellite on 8 April 2012, the European Space Agency formally announced the end of Envisat's mission on 9 May 2012. Links: EU, Environment, Earth, Space, French Guiana
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2002 Mar 4 |
European Union’s 15 members ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, but failed to set pollutant-emission levels to meet the accord’s targets. Links: EU, Environment
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2002 May 28 |
The EU announced plans to overhaul its 100,000-vessel fishing industry with some national fleets to be cut by up to 60% due to overfishing. Links: EU, Fish
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2002 May 29 |
The EU upgraded Russia to the status of a full market economy. Links: Russia, EU
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2002 May 31 |
European Union countries formally signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, a pact aimed at stemming pollution and global warming that has been opposed by the United States. Links: USA, EU, Environment
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2002 Jun 20 2002 Jun 22 |
A European Union Summit was scheduled for Seville. Links: Spain, EU
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2002 Jun 21 |
Two car bombs exploded at Spanish coastal resort as a European Union summit got under way about 90 miles away at a heavily guarded convention center in Seville. Links: Spain, EU, ETA
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2002 Jun 22 |
Two new bombs rocked Spain's tourist coasts, making five in two days that the government blamed on Basque separatist group ETA trying to disrupt a European Union summit in Seville. Links: Spain, EU, Basques, ETA
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2002 Jun 22 |
Tens of thousands of people banged drums, blew whistles and danced their way through Seville's streets in a rally against globalization. The EU Summit ended with new measures to deter illegal immigration. Links: Spain, EU
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2002 Jul 24 |
The European Union will give an extra $32 million to the U.N. Population Fund to help replace the U.S. money being withheld because of concerns about coercive abortions. Links: USA, EU, UN
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2002 Aug 30 |
The WTO ruled that the EU can impose $4 billion in penalties on the US because of an American tax break that promotes exports. The EU planned to give the US time to change the law. Links: USA, EU, WTO
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2002 Sep 16 |
European political and business officials gathered for a two-day summit on the lagging economy and the last snags to expanding the European Union into eastern Europe. Links: EU
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2002 Sep 23 |
Twenty five leaders from Asia and the European Union gathered for a two-day summit expected to focus on North Korea, the fight against international terrorism and economic cooperation. Links: North Korea, EU
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2002 Sep 27 |
Lord Ashdown (b.1941) began serving as the international community's High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He ended his term May 30, 2006. Links: Bosnia, Britain, EU
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2002 Oct 3 |
NATO and European Union called on Croatia to cooperate with the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal, urging the government to hand over indicted war crimes suspect Gen. Janko Bobetko. Links: EU, NATO, Croatia
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2002 Oct 9 |
The European Union's executive Commission declared Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia nearly ready for EU membership and recommended they be invited to join in 2004. Romania and Bulgaria likely will be delayed until 2007 because of weak economies, the Commission said, adding Turkey was the weakest link among candidates. Links: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, EU, Poland, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Rep.
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2002 Oct 19 |
Irish residents endorsed the European Union's plans to expand eastward. 63 percent of voters in the referendum approved the expansion proposal, which will admit up to 12 new members and bring the EU's membership to almost 500 million. Links: EU, Ireland
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2002 Oct 23 |
The European Parliament's Conference of Presidents announced that it chose Oswaldo Paya of Cuba for the prestigious 2002 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Links: EU, Cuba
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