Germany has proposed a two-year ban on EU citizens returning to the EU from Syria after fighting against the forces of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Plan to label products from beyond the Green Line pushed off at American request to allow for progress on peace, report says.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is "concerned" by developments over the past week in East Jerusalem and the West Bank "which have increased tensions on the ground and risk undermining current efforts to re-launch peace talks", her spokesperson said.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz served as Europe’s official representative at an official Polish commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Friday, in what he described as a “deeply moving ceremony”. Sirens and church bells sounded to launch the official tributes to the hundreds of Jewish fighters who resisted the Nazis in 1943 as part of a doomed revolt.

European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz will be the EU’s official representative at commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Friday, as part of a two-day official visit to Poland.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday led European outrage to Monday’s bomb attack at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, as she slammed the “deliberate targeting of men, women and children enjoying and participating in a sporting event”.

The leaders of the EU’s main institutions failed to respond Monday to news of the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s apparent implosion, after it was confirmed that Prime Minister Salam Fayyad had submitted his resignation.

The time has come for the European Union to join Canada in designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

The German government wants to push for Hizbullah to be added to the EU list of terrorist organizations. 

Bahrain’s parliament has approved a bill declaring Lebanese-based Hezbollah a terrorist organization and called on other Persian Gulf nations to declare the Lebanese militia a terrorist group.