EU’s ‘sadness and anxiety’ at new illegal migrant boat capsizing in Mediterranean
European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström reacted with “sadness and anxiety” as news broke on October 11 2013 of a
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Day: October 11, 2013
After Lampedusa, UN refugee agency urges EU to revisit migration policies
In the aftermath of one of deadliest migrant-ship disasters in recent history, the United Nations refugee agency issued a call
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More than 88% of credit cards in Turkey at risk of being cancelled – consumer association
Turkey’s Consumers Association (TÜDER) has warned that 50 million of 57 million credit cards currently in use could be cancelled
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Quitters deserve credit in smoking fight, not me: Hungarian PM
Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), presented Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with the World No Tobacco Day
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JAT Airways flies to history
JAT Airways, the national flag carrier and largest airlineof Serbia, and formerly Yugoslavia, founded in 1927, officially flies to history
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Ukraine’s future path may hinge on one bitter political rivalry
To hear Russian President Vladimir Putin say it, Russia and its biggest neighbor, Ukraine, are “one people.” “We have common
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Prague will lighten up
Paris may be known as the City of Light, but soon Prague will be trying to lay claim to that
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Bulgaria’s ban on former communist secret agents heading public media is unconstitutional, court says
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has overturned provisions in a 1998 law barring officers and staff of the communist-era State Security secret
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Bulgaria ‘plans restrictions’ after ban on foreigners buying land is lifted in 2014
After the ban on foreigners buying land in Bulgaria expires on January 1 2014, the plan is to still impose
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