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European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström reacted with “sadness and anxiety” as news broke on October 11 2013 of a new capsizing of a boatload of migrants in the Mediterranean, […]
In the aftermath of one of deadliest migrant-ship disasters in recent history, the United Nations refugee agency issued a call on October 11 2013 for ...
Turkey’s Consumers Association (TÜDER) has warned that 50 million of 57 million credit cards currently in use could be cancelled after the new regu ...
Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), presented Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with the World No Tobacco Day 2013 awar ...
JAT Airways, the national flag carrier and largest airlineof Serbia, and formerly Yugoslavia, founded in 1927, officially flies to history within two weeks. The new national carrier Air Serbia would […]
To hear Russian President Vladimir Putin say it, Russia and its biggest neighbor, Ukraine, are “one people.” “We have common traditions, a common mentality, a common history and a common […]
Paris may be known as the City of Light, but soon Prague will be trying to lay claim to that title, if just for a few days. A festival called […]
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has overturned provisions in a 1998 law barring officers and staff of the communist-era State Security secret service from heading the public broadcasters or being members of […]
After the ban on foreigners buying land in Bulgaria expires on January 1 2014, the plan is to still impose some restrictions, according to the head of Parliament’s committee on […]
The Reformist Bloc, a group of seven right-wing and centrist parties that are not represented in the current Parliament, have started an attempt at a new challenge in the Constitutional […]
