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As the EU seeks to implement an 18-month pilot project to train and equip Burma’s police force, concerns remain about the compliance of the Burmese police in inter-religious violence and their involvement in human rights violations.
The European Union has pledged assistance of up to €90 million per year for rural development, education, governance and peace-building in Burma from 2014 to 2020.
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday told a European Union business forum that investors should not ignore the country’s political challenges as it heads towards crucial 2015 elections.
The European Union could be breaching its embargo against Burma by providing riot gear to the Burmese police force as part of a new training programme, campaigners have warned.
The European Union on Tuesday began a €10 million (US$13.5 million) programme to provide riot control training to the Burmese police force, following a request from opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is set to meet European Union leaders this weekend before heading to Luxembourg for talks with EU foreign ministers and to Strasbourg to pick up a prize she won 23 years ago.
French Trade Minister Nicole Bricq will lead a delegation of small- and medium-sized businesses to Burma next week as France looks to boost trade ties with the once-isolated nation.
The British government has denied breaching the EU arms embargo for Burma, after a parliamentary report revealed that it has eight active arms export licences for the former military dictatorship
Foreign trade during the past three months in Burma increased by more than US$ 600 million when compared to the same period last year; however, the surge in imports has resulted in a US$ 800 million trade deficit
Burma’s President Thein Sein will embark on a four-day visit to Britain and France within days, an official said Tuesday, as the international community continues to welcome reforms in the former junta-ruled country
President Thein Sein will visit Britain and France next month, an official said on Friday, as the international community continues to embrace his nation’s democratic reforms
The European Union on Wednesday readmitted Burma to its trade preference scheme, saying it wanted to support reform in the once pariah state through economic development
A prominent student activist, who spent nearly 20 years in jail under the former military junta, has slammed the Burmese government for revoking the presidential pardon of a former political prisoner
Human rights activists slammed the Burmese government on Wednesday for revoking a prison amnesty granted to an opposition party member last year, after he was accused of ‘defaming’ the police
The Burmese government welcomed the EU’s decision to lift sanctions against the former pariah state as “greatly beneficial” to the country’s democratic reform process
The European Union lifts all sanctions on Burma except for an arms embargo, in recognition of sweeping political reforms.
EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to lift the last of the bloc’s trade, economic and individual sanctions against Burma, hailing “a new chapter” with the once pariah state
In the past, when increasing pressure on the dictatorship was discussed by the EU, caution was the watchword, but now the EU is wholeheartedly endorsing Thein Sein’s government
The European Union is set to lift all remaining sanctions against Burma next week, except its arms embargo, to recognise the country’s “remarkable process of reform”, according to news reports
Thein Sein, on the first-ever visit to Brussels by a Burmese president, received new pledges Tuesday of EU economic assistance coupled with calls to protect his country’s ethnic minorities
Burma’s President Thein Sein arrived in Oslo on Tuesday, kicking off his first trip to Europe aimed at forging stronger ties between the former pariah state and the west
Burma’s reformist leader Thein Sein was set to embark on his first visit to Europe as president Monday as the country looks to deepen ties with the west while emerging from junta rule
President Francois Hollande told Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday that France would back the country’s democratic transition, as she visited Paris during the last leg of her European tour
In they’re first ever visit to the EU’s parliament on Thursday, Burmese legislators met with their European counterparts
After a recent trip to Burma, the EU’s foreign policy head praised the country’s developments and pushed for continued reforms and the release of political prisoners
Following the country’s historic by-elections, the European Union is set to begin removing sanctions placed on Burma, while maintaining an arms embargo
EU nations are set to suspend sanctions against Burma for a year, opening the way to a potential trade and investment bonanza with over 800 firms
After British PM David Cameron and Aung San Suu Kyi issued a joint statement to drop sanctions against Burma several countries are heeding to the call
When the UK’s PM David Cameron arrives in Burma on Friday he will be accompanied by ten business leaders who will enter the country as ‘tourists’
