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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Council for Interethnic Relations via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Leaders of Russia, France, Germany discuss global crises

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday Dec. 11, 2019 file photo, Aphrodite Philippou, 73, takes out cheese from a saucepan as she makes Cyprus' halloumi cheese at a farm in Kampia village near Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus’ agriculture minister on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 said the European Union’s decision to recognize halloumi as a Cypriot traditional product will shield the country’s top food export from an increasing number of foreign producers using the cheese’s name to muscle into a 224 million euro ($267 million) market. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, file)

Cyprus’ famed halloumi cheese earns coveted EU quality mark

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

EU top officials to meet Turkish president next week

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A Greek flag on a makeshift tent outside the perimeter of the overcrowded refugee camp at the port of Vathy on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, Greece, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. On a hill above a small island village, the sparkling blue of the Aegean just visible through the pine trees, lies a boy’s grave. His first ever boat ride was to be his last - the sea claimed him before his sixth birthday. His 25-year-old father, like so many before him, had hoped for a better life in Europe, far from the violence of his native Afghanistan. But his dreams were dashed on the rocks of Samos, a picturesque Greek island almost touching the Turkish coast. Still devastated from losing his only child, the father has now found himself charged with a felony count of child endangerment. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

EU commissioner stresses need for solidarity on migration

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz attends a meeting at the federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 22, 2021. The Austrian government is considering on further measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria’s Kurz defends criticism of EU vaccine distribution

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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi meets the press, in Rome, Friday, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, pool)

EU vaccine politics reach fever pitch; Britain a target

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

EU medicines regulator approves new vaccine production sites

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A migrant rests in Las Raices camp in San Cristobal de la Laguna, in the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Several thousand migrants have arrived on the Spanish archipelago in the first months of 2021. Due to the terrible living conditions and the poor quality of food and water at the Las Raices camp, some migrants have decided to leave the camp and sleep in shacks in a nearby forest instead. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

Migrants stuck in Spain’s Canary Islands say camps are unfit

By JOAN GIRALT and RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

European Council President Charles Michel talks during a video conference with the leaders of Germany, France, Portugal and Greece ahead of the EU summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

EU offers Turkey aid, trade help despite rights concerns

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

European Whiskey Tariffs on American Products Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How America watered down whiskey’s global appeal

By Alice Calder

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session of the German parliament Bundestag ahead of an European Union summit at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

EU leaders grapple with surge of infections, vaccine issues

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT - Associated Press

European Council President Charles Michel, second left, talks to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, right on a screen, during a video conference ahead of a EU summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (Stephanie Lecocq, Photo Pool via AP)

EU moves toward stricter export controls for COVID-19 vaccines

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

People queue after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, during a mass vaccination campaign at Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Spain resumed the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday by extending it to adults up to 65 years old. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spaniards line up for AstraZeneca amid concerns over vaccine

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Biden to address video summit of EU leaders on Thursday

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European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a media conference after a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, March 22, 2021. The European Union imposed Monday sanctions on four Chinese officials accused of responsibility for abuses against Uyghur Muslims, provoking swift retaliation from Beijing. (Aris Oikonomou, Pool via AP)

China summons foreign diplomats in protest over sanctions

By ROD McGUIRCK and KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

Eritrea says EU sanctions on security agency are ‘malicious’

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks to the media prior to a meeting of the European Foreign Affairs Ministers, at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 22, 2021. (Aris Oikonomou, Pool Photo via AP)

EU, US, UK, Canada target China officials over Uyghur abuses

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, talks to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas during a European Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 22, 2021. The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials accused of responsibility for abuses against Uyghur Muslims in a raft of measures targeting alleged human rights offenders around the world, despite warnings that Beijing could retaliate. (Aris Oikonomou/Pool Photo via AP)

EU targets 11 Myanmar officials over coup, crackdown

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FILE - In this March 4, 2011, file photo, a bartender begins to pour a drink from a bottle of Jack Daniels at a bar in San Francisco. Bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey were left out of a recent breakthrough to start rebuilding trade relations between the U.S. and European Union in the wake of Donald Trump's presidency. While tariffs were suspended on some spirits, the EU's 25% tariff on American whiskey remains in place, and the rate is set to double to 50% in June in the industry's largest export market. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Whiskey makers face worsening hangover from trade dispute

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

From left, Greece's Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi, Interior Minister of Spain Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Italy's Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese, Cyprus' Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and Byron Camilleri, Malta's Interior Minister make statements following their meeting in Athens, Saturday, March 20, 2021. The ministers of Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, which are on the front line of migration flows into Europe have met in Athens to discuss the European Union's migration policy as the bloc works toward a new migration pact. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

5 nations demand better EU sharing of migration load

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