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Transparency campaigners warn against inaction on offshore tax schemes
Euronews: An unprecedented leak of millions of files of a panama-based offshore law firm has rocked the news. And it shows just how easily the world’s rich and powerful can exploit secretive off-shore tax schemes. We are joined by Carl...
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India and EU to push ahead with strategic partnership
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Brussels on Wednesday hoping to end a deadlock over a proposed free trade agreement that stalled four years ago. Before the talks got underway, Modi paid tribute to those killed in last...
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Cyprus objections could derail EU‒Turkey migrant deal
Cyprus said on Tuesday it won’t back any acceleration of negotiations for Turkey’s EU membership, jeopardising an accord between the EU and Ankara. The EU wants to finalise a deal with Turkey over the return of refugees and migrants...
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Refugee convention “must be applied” in Turkey says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
EU leaders are set to meet on Thursday and Friday. They are going to be discussing and, they hope, finalising a migration deal with Turkey. Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth has described it as “a stark repudiation of international law...
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Socialist MEPs calls for unity ahead of EU-Turkey summit deal
Demonstrators, led by the Socialist group in the European Parliament, have called for EU member countries to stop building walls to keep out refugees and migrants and to work together to solve the crisis. Martin Schulz, the European...
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Cyprus warns it will veto EU-Turkey deal: exclusive
Cyprus will veto a planned EU-Turkey deal on refugees unless Ankara recognises the country’s Greek Cypriot government, President Nicos Anastasiades told euronews in an interview on Thursday. Last week, Germany brokered a deal with the...
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EU leaders begin negotiations on controversial refugee deal
EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a decisive summit to stop more refugees and migrants coming into Europe. The controversial draft deal would see one Syrian refugee from Turkey resettled in the EU for every migrant Turkey...
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Refugees could be returned from Greece to Turkey as soon as Sunday under new EU deal
EU leaders and Turkey’s prime minister have approved a controversial deal on refugees which will see all migrants arriving in Greece from Sunday onwards being sent back to Turkey. The EU in turn will resettle thousands of Syrian refugees...
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EU refugee deal 'wrong decision,' says author who fled Afghanistan
Gulwali Passarlay, who went to the U.K. as a child refugee, talks about a plan to send others like him, arriving in Greece, back to Turkey
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French prosecutor expects Belgium to hand over Abdeslam
A top French prosecutor says he expects Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam to be handed over to authorities in France. Speaking with one of his Belgian counterparts, Francois Molins told reporters that a European arrest warrant has been...
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Sir Graham Watson: “We can do a lot more in terms of sharing intelligence”
Euronews spoke to Sir Graham Watson, a former leader of the European Liberals group in the European Parliament. Euronews: When you first heard the news, what went through your mind? Watson: “Well to be honest, it was the safety of my...
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Brussels attacks: ‘a surprise if no links to Abdeslam arrest’
The arrest of Saleh Abdeslam likely triggered a terrorist cell to attack targets in Brussels, according to a Belgian security expert. Didier Leroy, a researcher at the Royal Military School and the Free University of Brussels, told...
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Moment of silence observed in Brussels
Huge crowd gathers at outdoor memorial; officials gather at EU building
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Muslim community fears tension after Brussels attacks
People living and working in Brussels are trying to get back to normal in a city on alert. The Brussels metro system has partially re-opened after Tuesday’s attacks. But for some travellers, it may be an option they are now looking to...
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Impossible to prevent all terror attacks, warns top security analyst
Euronews spoke to Serge Stroobants, a defence analyst at the Institute for Economics and Peace think-tank. Stroobants, who also served with a NATO mission in Bosnia, teaches at the international affairs faculty of Vesalius College in...
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No sign Balkan border measures have cut refugee arrivals yet, says UNHCR
Greece has borne the brunt of the arrivals from the Middle East, with many refugees and migrants making the journey from Turkey in makeshift boats. Athens has been asking for more EU help and on Wednesday the European Commission...
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EU plan to save Schengen unveiled ahead of crunch summit
It is a last-ditch attempt to save Schengen. The European Commission has unveiled a timetable to restore the fraying open border zone this year, as it scrambles to stem the migrant crisis. Deploying a common European Border and Coast...
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Migrant crisis: Ankara under pressure to act at emergency summit
EU leaders are talking migration with Turkey’s prime minister at an emergency summit in Brussels. Ankara is under pressure to take back economic migrants and tackle smugglers, in return for aid and concessions. Prime Minister Ahmet...
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Turkey demands more cash and faster visa-free travel for migrant help
Turkey is offering to step up its help to tackle Europe’s migrant crisis, but it wants more money and faster visa-free travel. Ankara is reportedly demanding an extra three billion euros, doubling the amount already pledged by the EU....
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Greece-FYROM border: Situation ‘dramatic’ at refugee camp
With around 30,000 migrants and refugees bottled up in Greece, euronews reporter Apostolos Staikos has been to see conditions at a camp in Idomeni, on the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Migrants, hoping to head...
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Turkey needs something in return for migrant deal, says Ankara’s envoy to EU
The tentative deal struck between the EU and Turkey has drawn criticism from NGOs, the UN and across the political spectrum. But just how will it be enforced once it is fully finalised? Gulsum Alan, a journalist with euronews’ Turkish...
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German anti-immigrant party eyes regional poll breakthrough
Voters in three German regions go to the polls on Sunday with the right-wing, anti-immigrant party Alternative für Deutschland hoping to make significant gains. Locals in the ‘Länder’ of Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland Pfalz and...
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EU ministers cool on Turkey ‘deal’
EU interior ministers gave a cool reaction on Thursday to a tentative deal with Turkey that would see visa restrictions eased in return for stemming the flow of migrants to Greek shores. The accord was brokered in late-night talks in...
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European rights body accuses Polish government of undermining democracy
A European rights body has accused Poland’s conservative government of undermining democracy. Legal experts at the Council of Europe, a non-EU body, said changes made to the country’s top court would hamper how it operates and endanger...