Lawmakers, Holocaust survivors to attend Auschwitz session on combating anti-Semitism
More than 70 members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and Holocaust survivors will gather on the site of the former
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Europe
Regional elections approaching in Slovakia
Expect low turnout before and unusual political alliances after November’s regional elections, as Slovak citizens and foreigners with permanent residence
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Turkey unveils democratisation plan
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a package of reforms aimed at strengthening democracy and keeping on track
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European Parliament announces 2013 Sakharov Prize finalists
Belarusian political prisoners Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, US spying whistleblower Edward Snowden and Pakistani campaigner for girls’
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France’s double standards official discourse angers Romania
The vacillating position of the French ruling socialists on Romania’s and Bulgaria’s Schengen accession, ranging from utter support for a
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Czech Republic political parties jockey for position as election nears
In what has been a tumultuous year in Czech politics, the country’s political parties are ramping up their campaigns as
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Party leadership of Greece’s Golden Dawn to appear in court
The leadership of neo – Nazi Golden Dawn is to appear in court this week. Golden Dawn MP Christos Pappas
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Russian court orders all Greenpeace activists to stay in jail
A Russian court in Murmansk has ordered the last eight Greenpeace protesters who tried to scale an Arctic oil drilling
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Greek police arrest Golden Dawn party leader, MPs
Greek police have arrested Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the far-right Golden Dawn Party, on charges of forming a criminal
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