The EU has developed a set of options to help Greece overcome its financial crisis, which has unsettled the euro currency and markets globally, officials said today.

THE EU is anxious to begin negotiations with Syria and Lebanon as part of a new drive for peace in the Middle East.

The European Union today called on Iran to live up to international demands to halt its nuclear programme and return to negotiations.

Foreign ministers from the six powers pushing Iran to accept a package of incentives to suspend its nuclear programme met behind closed doors in Paris on Wednesday – the latest deadline in the stand-off, and one that Tehran looked set to ignore.

Top Iranian and EU negotiators will meet tonight for an informal discussion of Tehran’s response to the international incentives package designed to defuse the stand-off with the West over its nuclear programme.