EU offers 10,000 scholarships for 2009-2010 Brussels, July 1 EuAsiaNews -- The European Commission announced here Wednesday that it has awarded almost 10,000 new grants to be funded b...
Brussels, July 1 EuAsiaNews -- The European Commission announced here Wednesday that it has awarded almost 10,000 new grants to be funded by the EU's Erasmus Mundus programme in the academic year 2009-2010.
1,833 students are being awarded scholarships to study for one or ...
Brussels, June 26, EuAsiaNews -- EU Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, said here Friday that after the Indian legislative elections, "2009 is a crucial year for the EU and India, two natural partners, to find ways to address common challenges posed by climate change, ene ...
Brussels, June 26, EuAsiaNews -- An EU-India Troika ministerial meeting will be held in the capital of Czech Republic, Prague, on Monday, said a statement released by the EU Presidency in Brussels Friday.
The meeting will address the EU-India relations and the cooperation between ...
Brussels, June 25, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union adopted Thursday common rules on procedures and conditions for issuing short stay visas not exceeding three months.
"This is a major step to further develop a common visa policy and to reinforce cooperation in the Schenge ...
Brussels, June 24, EuAsiaNews -- President of Senegal , Abdoulaye Wade, has strongly criticised European Union policies towards Africa and said Africa would develop South-South cooperation instead of Europe.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels Wednesday, the outspoken Senegalese Pr ...
Brussels, June 23, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union has allocated 5 million euro to provide humanitarian assistance to internally displaced people, mostly ethnic Tamils, placed in camps in Sri Lanka.
EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel said in press s ...
Warsaw, June 20, EuAsiaNews -- A short form of cricket or 20-20 game is gaining new fans and that too in the main East European state Poland. Until recently many Poles have read or heard stories about the craze of cricket in the Indian sub-continent. Now for the first time there are curiously ...
Brussels, June 18, EuAsiaNews -- The Indian Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Jitin Prasada, said in Brussels Thursday that the functioning of international oil and gas markets in a transparent manner is most important from India's point of view.
Addessing t ...
Brussels, June 17, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union and Pakistan held here Wednesday their first-ever summit to discuss ways to strengthen EU-Pakistan ties, the regional political situation and global issues .
The President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus described the summit as "hist ...
Luxembourg, June 15, EuAsiaNews -- Foreign Ministers of the 27-member European Union called here Monday for EU’s strong engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The ministers meeting here today issued a statement reconfirming the EU’s long-term commitment to working wit ...
Brussels, June 11, EuAsiaNews -- The plight of Pakistani people and ways to alleviate their suffering must be top of the agenda when EU leader meet with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari for the first-ever EU-Pakistan summit on 17 June in Brussels, three aid agencies Oxfam International, Acti ...
Brussels, June 10, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union has strongly condemned the suicide attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar on Wednesday in which over 15 pepople were killed .
"No cause can justify such acts,“ said the EU Presidency, currently held by the Czech Rep ...
Brussels, June 5, EuAsiaNews -- Welcoming the address of the President of India to the Indian Parliament in which Ms. Pratibha Patil said that the government will deepen its ties with its Diaspora, the President of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) in Belgium, Sunil Prasa ...
Luxembourg, June 5, EuAsiaNews -- European Union interior ministers who are meeting here Thursday and Friday have adopted a decision approving the signing of an agreement with Pakistan on the readmission of illegal immigrants.
The agreement is designed to strengthen the cooperatio ...
Brussels, June 4, EuAsiaNews -- Hardly two weeks after the defeat of Tamil Tigers (LTTE) militarily, the Sri Lanka government has began a campaign to attract investors from Europe to boost its economic development.
Speaking at a seminar on “Business opportunities in Sri Lanka" held in ...
Brussels, June 3, EuAsiaNews -- The Belgian Export Credit Agency (ONDD) said in its monthly risk assessment report on Wednesday that the landslide victory of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in India is "positive news as the new government is expected to be more stable and more ...
Brussels, May 28, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union voiced regret Thursday that it was not possible for the UN Human Rights Council to agree on an acceptable outcome of the Special Session addressing the serious human rights violations and the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka.
Brussels, May 28, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union voiced regret Thursday that it was not possible for the UN Human Rights Council to agree on an acceptable outcome of the Special Session addressing the serious human rights violations and the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka.
"W ...
Brussels, May 25, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union approved here Monday the Blue Card, a special residence and work permit for third-country citizens for the purpose of highly qualified employment in Europe.
The Blue Card will facilitate access to the labou ...
Brussels, May 21, EuAsiaNews -- The Europen Union has welcomed the holding of the first democratic multi-party parliamentary elections in the Republic of Maldives on 9 May.
"The election, which took place following the adoption of a new Constitution in August 2008, was a further s ...