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Between Cypriot leader N. Christodoulides and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, views on Turkey are not on the same line. And this requires adjustments at the top (Photo: EU)
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[News] Discussions with Ankara must resume. But step by step. Says the European Council

(B2) The 27 European leaders endorsed, during their summit in Brussels on Wednesday (April 17), the resumption of dialogue with Turkey under certain conditions. A necessary strategic debate This “strategic debate”

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Press conference at the European Parliament, (from left to right), T. Strik, M. Satouri, K. Melchior (photo B2/ES)
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[News] EU-Egypt partnership. Part of the European Parliament refuses the blank check

(B2) The partnership concluded between the European Commission and Egypt does not pass muster with a part of the European Parliament which contests its substance and especially its form. Members of Parliament will meet at the next

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Commissioner Ylva Johansson, required to replace her absent colleague O. Varhelyi to defend the disbursement of 150 million to Tunisia, in front of Parliament (credit: PE)
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[News] The Tunisian issue turns into a confrontation between Parliament and European Commission

(B2) The disagreement was latent. It becomes patent. The terms and tone of the discussions on Tuesday evening (March 12) in the hemicycle in Strasbourg bear witness to this. Just like the very notable absence of European Commissioner Oliver Várhelyi,

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Signature of the memorandum by Olivér Várhelyi for the European Commission and Mounir Ben Rjiba, Ursula von der Leyen, Kaïs Saïed, and Giorgia Meloni, from left your right
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[News] The European Commission signs a memorandum with Tunisia. Already challenged!

(B2) “A new chapter” is opening in relations between the European Union and Tunisia, enthuses the European Commission. A feeling that is far from being shared in the European Parliament. At the heart of the discord, the

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Kais Saied and Ursula von der Leyen also met in Paris at the summit for a new global financial pact (Photo: European Commission)
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[News+] Political and economic stability, the European emergency for Tunisia

(B2) Tunisia is for the European Union a strategic partner in the southern neighborhood which must absolutely be helped to avoid its economic and social collapse. The country is bloodless. The Europeans are ready to put the

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