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An exhibition football match between the Netherlands and host Germany was canceled on short notice Tuesday because of a highly credible bomb threat at the Hanover stadium. Hanover Police Chief […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has expressed shock and horror at the November 13 attacks in Paris and the killing of so many innocent ...
Hungary’s Justice Minister announced on Tuesday that the country’s parliament had cleared the way for the government to bring the European ...
Sofia-based think-tank Institute for Market Economics (IME) is a long-time proponent of reduced government spending and, as in previous years, has pre ...
In the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, France has invoked a European Union treaty clause that says if an EU country is the victim of armed […]
A week after Romania’s former European Commissioner Dacian Ciolos was nominated to form a technocrat cabinet, the two chambers of parliament voted to confirm the new government, which is expected […]
Two people are reported to have died as a result of a powerful earthquake about 23km from Greece’s Ionian island of Lefkáda on the morning of November 17 2015. The […]
Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s opposition minority party Ataka, was taken into 72-hour custody on November 17 on charges of hooliganism and assault. Siderov came as ordered to the Sofia […]
An earthquake of 6.1 on the Richter scale occurred at 9.10am on November 17 about 27km west of the Ionian island of Lefkáda on the west coast of Greece, according […]
EU Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová spoke in part about the EU response to the November 13 Paris attacks during a speech she gave at the Brookings Institution, a think tank […]
