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European trade commissioner Karel de Gucht delivered an impassioned plea to the European Parliament on July 3, asking MEPs not to vote down the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Speaking a […]
The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), deplores the June 22 2012 decision of the Kosovo parliament to keep media-unfriendly articles […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is to pay an official visit to Greece on July 4 and 5 2012 at the invitation of his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias, the Presidency’s press […]
Poland is solidifying its position as the European Union’s fastest growing economy and is the most resilient of the ex-communist states that joined the bloc between 2004 and 2007, Britain’s […]
The Budapest City Council caucus of radical right-wing party Jobbik has said that the 14th EuroGames – a gay and lesbian sports-for-all event irrespective of sex, age, sexual identity or […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, says the Croatian Coast Guard has rescued 65 people on Monday from a boat adrift in the Adriatic Sea. The UNHCR […]
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said the “tepid” U.S. economic recovery could be hurt by two problems: Europe’s economic troubles and U.S. political gridlock. Lagarde said […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev, meeting his German counterpart Joachim Gauck in Berlin, has floated the idea of a Museum of State Security– analogous to Sofia’s Museum of Socialist Art– which […]
Nikolai Mladenov has a vision of the countries of the Western Balkans integrated into the European Union and Nato, and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa – […]
The September 11 terrorist who was used to justify the invasion of Iraq did not come to Prague for meetings to plot his deadly mission. That is the conclusive finding […]
