EE

  • Aug 23, 2010
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ROMANIA: Despair makes more want to emigrate

Nearly 87% of Romanians are dissatisfied with what is on offer politically and more than 85%...

Romania
  • Aug 20, 2010
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CZECH/GERMANY: Sides paper over gap on SPG rules

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas agreed yesterday that they...

Germany
  • Aug 20, 2010
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GREECE: Crisis makes reform both necessary and hard

A mechanism to make regulated electricity tariffs reflect wholesale prices by mid-2013 is to be...

Greece
  • Aug 19, 2010
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CZECH/SLOVAKIA: Prague targets drug gangs over users

The Czech police announced yesterday that it had rounded up a major Vietnamese-run cannabis...

Slovakia
  • Aug 19, 2010
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BULGARIA/RUSSIA: Borisov still hopes for cheaper gas

The media have been "scaring" the public with reports of a 3% rise in gas prices from October,...

Bulgaria
  • Aug 19, 2010
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ROMANIA/FRANCE: Bucharest says Roma are EU issue

Repatriating Roma is no solution, the speaker of Romania's Chamber of Deputies, Roberta Anastase,...

Romania
  • Aug 18, 2010
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POLAND: Government prefers VAT rise as deficit-cutter

By raising value-added tax and embarking on further privatisation, the government is trying to...

Poland
  • Aug 18, 2010
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ARMENIA/RUSSIA: Yerevan hails Russian security clause

The 1995 treaty on Russia's military presence in Armenia will be amended to redefine its mission,...

Armenia