French Socialists win majority in parliamentary vote
French President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party has taken a solid majority in Sunday’s runoff parliamentary elections. Partial polling results show
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Greek elections: Centre-right New Democracy’s slim lead ‘vote to keep euro’
Greece’s centre-right New Democracy party took a narrow lead in June 17 2012 elections in what party leader Antonis Samaras
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First court sentences for Euro 2012 hooligans
Fast-track courts in Warsaw have handed out 23 sentences so far to hooligans following clashes that broke out ahead of
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European Commission delivers visa roadmap to Kosovo government
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström handed the roadmap for visa liberalisation over to the Kosovo government on June
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Greece ponders second election in six weeks
Greeks vote for a government for the second time in six weeks on Sunday. The last election, in May, gave
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Polish authorities apologize over Euro 2012 hooligans
Polish authorities apologized Wednesday for hooligan violence that broke out in Warsaw ahead of a tense Poland-Russia Euro 2012 match
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Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi starts tour of Europe
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Switzerland at the start of a historic European tour, which
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Czech MP faces trial after corruption immunity lifted
Czech MPs stripped a leading politician of his parliamentary immunity on Tuesday in one of the country’s most high-profile corruption
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Euro zone crisis expected to dominate G20 Summit
Much of President Barack Obama’s attention at next week’s Group of 20 economic summit in Mexico’s Pacific resort of Los Cabos may
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