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Turkey signs agreement with Japan on second nuclear power station

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Turkey has taken a second step towards the construction of a second nuclear plant. Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed

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Sobotka strikes back: Czech Republic’s prospective prime minister outmaneuvering opponents

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 Kevin Livingston for The Prague Post Czech Republic

Prospective Czech Republic prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka is deftly outmaneuvering his own party rivals at every turn. The chairman of

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Poland risks early elections amid political corruption allegations

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland may face early parliamentary elections if the situation in the governing Civic Platform (PO) destabilizes to such an extent

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‘Greek debt to be discussed no sooner than the European elections’

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The administration of the Deutsche Bank said on October 30 2013 that it is unlikely for Greece to have a

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Europe 

Europeans seek answers from US on NSA spying

October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 Kent Klein of VOANews

European officials are in Washington seeking more information about charges that the United States has been spying on Europeans and

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Greece’s former FM Pangalos: We spied on the US

October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece’s former foreign minister Theodoros Pangalos revealed on radio station Vima FM on October 29 that the Greek government had

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Europe 

Troika’s second review of Cyprus economy begins

October 30, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus

For the next 10 days, until November 8, the fiscal restructuring progress and the financial system of Cyprus will once

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Europe 

Plight of ‘Maria’ puts spotlight on Roma In Europe

October 30, 2013October 30, 2013 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews

A little blonde girl in Greece is at the center of a Europe-wide row over the treatment of Roma people 

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Europe 

Bosphorus tunnel opens linking Europe, Asia

October 30, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

For the first time, Turkey has connected its European and Asian sides with a railway tunnel. The Marmaray tunnel, which

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