The European Union enjoys and values the broad and multifaceted relationship it has developed with Sri Lanka over the past decades. The European Union’s...
Image: EU MEPs holding a press conference in Colombo.
Issuing a statement on behalf of the visiting European Parliamentary Delegation for Relations with the Countries...
IPS/ Sri Lankan exports, which have been flagging in recent times, gained some much needed relief with the European Union’s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council deciding...
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Only the naïve would believe the rosily repeated plea by the European Union (EU) that ‘the implementation of twenty seven...
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European Union Ambassador to Sri Lanka Tung-Lai Margue's has reaffirmed the reinstatement of GSP Plus to Sri Lanka in his message for Europe Day.
The excerpt of...
In the chaotic merry-go-round characterizing the drafting of Sri Lanka’s proposed Counter-Terror Act (CTA), the periodic surfacing of one version followed by another has...
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By Namini Wijedasa.
The word ‘Espionage’ dropped, but originally listed offences reintroduced.
The Counter Terrorism Act policy framework approved...
DRI.
The Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) of the European Union (EU) is a trade arrangement that allows developing countries to pay less or no...
European United Left and Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL ) consisting 52 members (MEPs) have submitted a resolution to the European Parliament rquesting not to grant...
Image: Anne-Marie Mineur and Lola Sánchez Caldentey meeting with local TU leaders; Credit www.guengl.eu.
Issuing a statement the Fact Finding Mission including Members of the...
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In a letter addressed to PM Wickremasinghe European Parliament has put forward two specific conditions if Sri Lanka wants to...
Image: From left: European Delegation in Sri Lanka and Maldives Political, Trade and Communications Counsellor Paul Godfrey, EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives...
(European Union Charge d’Affaires and Head, Political, Trade and Communications, Paul Godfrey)
The European Union (EU) will to call for a foreign judicial role, only...
*Responds positively to Sri Lanka’s re-application; *Removal of ban on fish exports also expected.
The government expects the European Union to restore the GSP Plus facility which...
Dilshani Samaraweera Sri Lanka's apparel exports are suffering from the loss of the EU's GSP+ schemeTwo years after it was formally removed from the...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has expressed deep concern regarding the government's decision to regulate fake news on social media.
Issuing a statement...
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Puyumi Fornseka.
During the first five months of this year, more than 1,200 women dialed the 24-hour hotline: 1938 seeking...
The European Union enjoys and values the broad and multifaceted relationship it has developed with Sri Lanka over the past decades. The European Union’s...
