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More than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, marking a symbolic threshold in the continent's most divisive political issue. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported that 1,005,504 migrants had reached Europe, a five-fold increase from the total last year and the highest
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The European Union's proposal to create a cross-national border police to deal with refugees has sparked concerns about sovereignty among some European governments. The European Commission, the EU's legislative arm, has announced a plan to create an EU border and coast guard force with more power
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Amnesty International, a renowned human rights organization, has voiced concerns over the European Commission's proposal to create a European corps of border guards. The organization fears that this initiative may compromise the rights of migrants and refugees, particularly in their access to asylum and protection. Amnesty International emphasizes
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Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis has expressed concerns about the influx of migrants into Europe, particularly from Greece, which he believes needs to demonstrate a "changed attitude" on border security. With hundreds of thousands of migrants pouring into Europe from the Middle East and Africa this year, Vejonis emphasized
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European Union leaders and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu closed a joint summit by pledging to revive Turkey's stagnant EU membership talks and bolster their collective response to the Syrian refugee crisis. The EU's 28 leaders, eager to ease the flow of migrants into the continent,
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The European Commission has approved Praxbind (idarucizumab), a treatment for reversing the anticoagulant effects of Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) in emergency surgery, urgent procedures, or life-threatening or uncontrolled bleeding situations. Idarucizumab is the first specific reversal agent for a non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant (NOAC) to be approved in the European
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Exelixis has announced that the European Commission has approved COTELLIC, a combination therapy for unresectable or metastatic melanoma with a BRAF V600 mutation. This approval joins Switzerland (August 2015) and the United States (November 2015) as the third regulatory approval for COTELLIC. The therapy, discovered by Exelixis and developed by
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged the European Commission to ensure that the upcoming European Union (EU) Aviation Package strengthens the competitiveness and connectivity of the European economy, and benefits European consumers. Airline Director General Tony Tyler emphasized the crucial role of air connectivity in driving economic and
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The community of Sosnowiec in southern Poland has won a prestigious European Energy Service Award for its Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) Project with Siemens Poland. The project achieved significant energy and carbon dioxide savings in 87 school buildings. The European Energy Service Award ceremony recognized outstanding European projects and institutions
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Thousands of migrants, including many children, continue to flee war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, risking their lives to reach Europe. In the past 24 hours, more than 600 people were rescued by the Greek coast guard, while at least 50 migrants have died in shipwrecks in
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The European Union has pledged to help set up 100,000 places in reception centres in Greece and the western Balkans to deal with the influx of refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East. The ten EU leaders who attended the mini summit in Brussels agreed on a 17-step
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The European Union has ruled that Luxembourg and the Netherlands provided illegal state aid to Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler, respectively, in their aggressive tax avoidance strategies. The European Commission ordered both companies to pay between $22 million to $34 million for their tax deals, which are considered modest sums compared
