The exclusive task of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office will be to investigate, prosecute and bring to judgement – in the member states’ courts – crimes affecting the EU budget.

Compensations ruled by European Court of Human Rights range from €37.000 to €70.000 and are higher than the amounts provided by the Slovenian Law on Compensation for 25.000 “erased non-Slovenians”

The decision was blocked thanks to resistance from Luxembourg, which requires this decision to be valid for non-Member States as well.

G-7 Leaders Statement

“I felt it was very important to come to Bosnia and Herzegovina today, to speak to the institutional leaders, and members of civil society, face to face.

She will meet the leaders of BiH institutions and the civil society to discuss the situation in the country, ahead of discussions with Member States in the coming weeks.

Issues discussed were the cooperation between Agency and the EU Delegation as well as Agency’s participation in EU accession negotiations within the framework of Chapter 23.

Following the recent unprecedented events in the country and the security, political and economic challenges faced by Ukraine, on 6 March 2014 the European Council stated its support to help stabilize Ukraine’s economy with a package of measures and one of these was the granting of autonomous trade preferences.

The talks between world powers and Iran about Iran’s nuclear programme are complicated, and there is no guarantee that the talks will succeed, Catherine Ashton says after the discussion in Tehran.

Remarks by President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso following the extraordinary meeting of EU Heads of State and Government on Ukraine, Brussels, 6 March 2014.