EU accession talks with Serbia can start before June 2013, MEPs say
European Union accession talks with Serbia should start without delay, provided the government keeps the reform process on course, members
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Jailed members of Russian band Pussy Riot appeal to European court
Jailed members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot are contesting their convictions in the European Court of Human Rights.
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Poland cuts interest rates for fourth time as economy slows further
Poland’s Monetary Policy Council offered its fourth consecutive 25 bps cut to official interest rates, as macro data for December
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Human Rights Watch: Russia is exploiting Sochi Olympic workers
An international rights group has released a report alleging abuse of migrant workers at construction sites for the 2014 Winter
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Chernobyl cleanup workers demand billion euro in unpaid pensions
Hundreds of Chornobyl nuclear disaster cleanup workers protested outside Ukraine’s parliament when the legislature held its first session this year
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Polish officials concerned about Strasbourg decision to declassify documents on alleged CIA prisons in Poland
Former prime minister Leszek Miller once again reiterated that there had never been any CIA prisons in Poland, while commenting
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US, Israel welcome Bulgaria’s findings on Bourgas attack
Officials from the US and Israel, two countries that have long asserted Hezbollah’s culpability for the terrorist attack that killed
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EC ‘takes note’ of Bulgarian judiciary appointments in ‘oral CVM update’
The European Commission has delivered on February 4 “a factual update on developments in Bulgaria” to the European Council in
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Minority parties in Bulgaria milk ‘UK immigration flood’ hysteria
The disinformation campaign in some British media and political circles about a supposed flood of Bulgarians and Romanians that will
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