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15 July 2019
Tensions in the Gulf, Iraq, external aspects of migration and Turkey’s drilling activities, on the agenda of EU Foreign Affairs Council
The last meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, held on 15 July in Brussels, tackled, among other issues, some pressing challenges on the Mediterranean, including the rising tensions in the Gulf and their impact on the JCPOA, which the EU is trying to preserve despite increasing pressure from...
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15 July 2019
Yemeni factions meet and a agree measures to enforce the ceasefire
On 14 and 15 July, representatives of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement met on UN vessel in the Red Sea in order to decide new measures to enforce the ceasefire agreed last December in Stockholm....
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15 July 2019
Moroccan Navy rescues 271 irregular migrants and Tunisian Navy finds the bodies of 82 migrants dead in a shipwreck
On 15 July, Moroccan authorities announced that during the weekend their Navy rescued a total number of 271 irregular migrants in different operations and Tunisian authorities announced that their Navy found the 82 bodies that were missing after the shipwreck of 4 July...
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15 July 2019
The EU continues to defend the Iranian Nuclear Deal and support the Iraqi-led regional conference
Reacting to recent tensions between the US and Iran, the EU and its Member States tried to preserve the JCPOA. Speaking after the EU Foreign Policy Council, HR/VP Federica Mogherini ensured that the EU will remain part of the deal, inviting Iran to “reverse its steps and go back to full...
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11 July 2019
Tunisia receives €700 million of Eurobond to fund its financial gap of 2019
On 10 July, Tunisian authorities announced that the country succeeded in raising €700 million on the financial euro market. This new amount of euros will be used to fund the financial gap that the state created in 2019....
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11 July 2019
Tunisia and Egypt extend the “state of emergency”
On 11 July, the Egyptian Parliament approved the extension of the state of emergency for other three months and on 6 July the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the state of emergency’s extension for an additional month in all the territory of the republic. ...
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3 July 2019
Egyptian authorities deny medical assistance to an imprisoned opposition leader
On 3 July, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights published a statement in which denounces the “imminent death” of the former opposition’s leader Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh due to prolonged medical neglect in prison....
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