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A court in the German land of Nord-Westphalia decided on November 28 that all Romanian citizens are entitled to social benefits based on the European principle of non-discrimination among EU […]
Pressured by street demonstrations at home, Ukraine’s president reluctantly traveled to a European Union summit in Lithuania. But he frustrated fiv ...
The European Union criticized Russia for pressuring Ukraine into abandoning a landmark free trade deal with the EU in favor of strengthening ties with ...
A senior Turkish minister’s call to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia – now a museum — back into a mosque has provoked a religious and di ...
Residents of Vračević village, 65km south from Belgrade, blocked the road to a nearby Bogovađa village in protest against undocumented immigrants who have been placed in its asylum centre. The […]
Bulgaria’s Economy Minister Dragomir Stoynev said on November 29 that Vladimir Inkov will be “put in charge” of South Stream, the gas pipeline being developed at Kremlin’s urging, in order […]
The European Commission said on November 29 that was providing 5.66 million euro in emergency funding from the European Refugee Fund to Bulgaria to help the country manage the increased […]
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled against a challenge to declare the results of the May 12 2013 parliamentary elections void, the second such suit lodged in the after this year’s elections. […]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says his country needs economic and financial support from the European Union before Kyiv can sign a political and free trade deal with the bloc. Yanukovych […]
The 28-member European Union ended October 2013 with 10.9 per cent unemployment, seasonally adjusted, unchanged from September, EU statistics office Eurostat said on November 29. Last month, Eurostat initially announced […]
