Does the European Union freeze accounts of the deposed Egyptian President Mubarak? The military authorities in Cairo have made a request to Brussels. Switzerland has already locked accounts last week, the 82-year-olds. For Jean-Claude Juncker it is a clear choice: The Luxembourg prime minister believes that the EU should follow the Swiss example and freeze the accounts of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
This Juncker said on Monday. The EU must tackle this issue very soon: The military rulers of the North African country had been asked by Brussels to do so, the news agency reported, citing the EU business circles. Diplomats should discuss the request on Tuesday, it said. Next Monday, the issue could be back on the agenda of EU foreign ministers meeting.
Previously, Britain and Germany had confirmed inquiries from Cairo to the closure of accounts. "We will of course comply with this request, in cooperation with the EU and international partners, as we have done so in the case of Tunisia," the British Foreign Secretary William Hague told parliament in London.
Whether you are personally affected in addition to the accounts of leading representatives of the Mubarak regime and the balance of Mubarak, said the minister does not. In Berlin, a spokesman of the Foreign Office and to request that "a mutual assistance request from the Egyptian authorities has been received regarding the freeze of assets of former members of the Egyptian government and the Egyptian Parliament.
Further action was under consideration. London is in view of reports that Mubarak and his environment, several million pounds to have kept on British banks under increasing pressure to freeze the accounts of the former ruler. Hague said the Exchequer George Osborne will speak on Monday and Tuesday with his EU counterparts in Brussels on this issue as well as aid to Egypt.
Moreover, Hague said, the Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Schafik he had received a telephone call next week to take members of the opposition to the cabinet. Mubarak has long been seen as a close ally of the Europeans in the highly politically sensitive Middle East region. Only two years ago to him, the EU had made a privileged partner of the Mediterranean Union, the countries should bind the southern Mediterranean region closer to the EU.
How much money Mubarak in his nearly 30-year tenure with side has done is as yet unclear. A recent rumor that Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, had amassed a fortune of up to 70 billion dollars, the angry protests had been fueled against him yet. Switzerland, as so far the only country in Europe after the resignation on Friday decided Mubarak in Cairo without a corresponding request the blocking of his accounts.
After the fall of the Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in mid-January, the EU had decided after a request from the Tunisian authorities to freeze assets of the long-standing head of state and his wife.
This Juncker said on Monday. The EU must tackle this issue very soon: The military rulers of the North African country had been asked by Brussels to do so, the news agency reported, citing the EU business circles. Diplomats should discuss the request on Tuesday, it said. Next Monday, the issue could be back on the agenda of EU foreign ministers meeting.
Previously, Britain and Germany had confirmed inquiries from Cairo to the closure of accounts. "We will of course comply with this request, in cooperation with the EU and international partners, as we have done so in the case of Tunisia," the British Foreign Secretary William Hague told parliament in London.
Whether you are personally affected in addition to the accounts of leading representatives of the Mubarak regime and the balance of Mubarak, said the minister does not. In Berlin, a spokesman of the Foreign Office and to request that "a mutual assistance request from the Egyptian authorities has been received regarding the freeze of assets of former members of the Egyptian government and the Egyptian Parliament.
Further action was under consideration. London is in view of reports that Mubarak and his environment, several million pounds to have kept on British banks under increasing pressure to freeze the accounts of the former ruler. Hague said the Exchequer George Osborne will speak on Monday and Tuesday with his EU counterparts in Brussels on this issue as well as aid to Egypt.
Moreover, Hague said, the Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Schafik he had received a telephone call next week to take members of the opposition to the cabinet. Mubarak has long been seen as a close ally of the Europeans in the highly politically sensitive Middle East region. Only two years ago to him, the EU had made a privileged partner of the Mediterranean Union, the countries should bind the southern Mediterranean region closer to the EU.
How much money Mubarak in his nearly 30-year tenure with side has done is as yet unclear. A recent rumor that Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, had amassed a fortune of up to 70 billion dollars, the angry protests had been fueled against him yet. Switzerland, as so far the only country in Europe after the resignation on Friday decided Mubarak in Cairo without a corresponding request the blocking of his accounts.
After the fall of the Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in mid-January, the EU had decided after a request from the Tunisian authorities to freeze assets of the long-standing head of state and his wife.
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