Romania’s election – hard figures and a hard future
Romania boasts the largest administrative building in the world, the Parliament Palace that is home to its bicameral parliament –
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Treasury minister calls for dismissal of CEO of Poland’s troubled flagship airline LOT
Poland’s Treasury Ministry expects ailing state airline PLL LOT’s supervisory board to make the CEO accountable for the current situation,
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Struggling to curb a booming HIV epidemic
“Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.” This is the long-term vision of UNAIDS, organizers of World Aids
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Purchasing power in Bulgaria lowest in the EU – Eurostat
Purchasing power in Bulgaria, measured according to Actual Individual Consumption per capita, was the lowest in the European Union from
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Fear and loathing in Ukraine’s new parliament
Naked women and broken fences. Several brawls and plenty of insults. Watching the first day of the new parliament is
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Banking union: EU reaches euro zone bank supervision deal
European Union finance ministers have reached a deal to create a single supervisor for eurozone banks, in a bid to
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Illegal drugs and stolen goods seized in international operation at 28 European airports
Couriers have been arrested and drugs and stolen goods seized as law enforcement authorities from 15 countries carried out a
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Greece to prosecute first maritime piracy case with evidence gathered by Interpol team
Evidence gathered by an Interpol Incident Response Team (IRT) following the release of the hijacked oil tanker Irene SL in
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ICTY sentences Bosnia Serb intelligence chief over Srebrenica and Zepa
A United Nations war crimes tribunal on December 12 2012 sentenced a former Bosnian Serb military chief to life imprisonment after convicting
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