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BRUSSELS - The EU and the US are supporting Serbia on the European integration path, but only EU member states will decide on the EU accession itself, European Parliament rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister said on Thursday.

The eurozone must seize a current window of opportunity for urgent reforms to the currency bloc, including by creating a joint finance minister answering to the European Parliament, European economic and financial affairs commissioner Pierre Moscovici said.

The euro zone must seize a current window of opportunity for urgent reforms to the currency bloc, including by creating a joint finance minister answering to the European Parliament, European economic and financial affairs commissioner Pierre Moscovici said.

More than 38,000 people signed an online petition as of Thursday protesting against a French court order to remove a cross from a statue of the late Polish-born Pope John Paul II in Brittany, western France.

The petition, launched on the CitizenGo website four days ago, “opposes the removal of the cross from a public space and emphasises the Christian roots of Europe”.

The Venezuelan opposition has received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, which the European Parliament gives annually.

A group of 70 members of the European Parliament wants to abolish the European Commission's directive on daylight saving time.

They say there has been mounting evidence of the negative impact of the practice of adjusting the clocks twice a year.

More than EUR 2 billion will be received by our country next year from the EU budget, sega reported. This became clear after the European Parliament approved the 2018 Union budget.

The budget provides for investment in research, scientific work, infrastructure, employment and handling problems with youth unemployment, as well as payments to farmers.

A group of 70 members of the European Parliament wants to abolish the European Commission's directive on daylight saving time.

They say there has been mounting evidence of the negative impact of the practice of adjusting the clocks twice a year.

Croatian companies and employers have complained that the newly-agreed EU directive seeking to equalise wages for workers posted to other countries across the Union will damage their business and ultimately result in job cuts.

A common electronic system to speed up checks at the Schengen area's external borders and to register all non-EU travellers was backed by Parliament on Wednesday.