Parts of Central and Eastern Europe hard-hit by heavy snowfalls, icy weather
Code Red weather warnings have been issued for the Banat region of north-eastern Serbia and large parts of southern Austria
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Macedonia to hold presidential elections on April 13 2014
Presidential elections in Macedonia will be held on April 13 2014. The decision was signed on February 1 by the
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EU unemployment 10.7% in December 2013, in Bulgaria 13.1% – Eurostat
Unemployment in the 28-member European Union was 10.7 per cent in December 2013, EU statistics office Eurostat said, reporting unemployment
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Neo–nazi attacks shock Slovakia
Shocking video images of youths with shaved heads brutally beating a man in front of a bar in Nitra have
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Ukraine faces debt downgrade as Russia puts loan on hold
As cities in Ukraine remain in the grip of protests and political crisis, a rating agency has downgraded the country’s
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Samaras: ‘Parliamentary elections in Greece in 2016’
Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras, in a speech to the parliamentary group of the governing party New Democracy, set the
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Police bust international network of Romanian payment card fraudsters
Romanian and French law enforcement authorities, supported by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, have successfully dismantled a Romanian
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Ukrainian parliament passes measure offering amnesty to protesters
Ukraine’s parliament has approved a measure offering amnesty to protesters arrested during anti-government demonstrations, but only if they abandon the
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Serbia to hold early elections
Serbia’s president has dissolved parliament and called for early elections, in an effort to garner more popular support for economic
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