Bulgaria’s Cabinet has granted a ten-year concession for the extraction of natural gas to the UK company Melrose Resources.
07/21/2010
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Bulgaria, concession, gas
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has informed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the French government’s readiness to respond to any request on assistance in extinguishing the unprecedented wildfires that are raging in many parts of Russia.
07/20/2010
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: France, Russia, wildfires
The number of people unemployed in Spain, which has the highest rate in the euro zone, fell for the fourth month in a row in July as the tourism industry hired workers for the summer, the government said today.
07/19/2010
— Filed under: Business,Society
Tags: Spain, unemployment
The Spanish government on Sunday announced plans to slash incentives for new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations by up to 45 per cent, although it appeared to edge away from proposals that would have resulted in reduced support for existing installations.
Greece won international lenders’ approval for its efforts to fix its finances and Spain raised new funds at far cheaper rates than it had to pay just two months ago in further signs that Europe is getting over its debt crisis.
07/17/2010
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: debt, Greece, recovery
The Bank of England will have to keep interest rates at their record low of 0,5% until 2014, a leading economic forecaster has said.
07/16/2010
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: The Bank of England, UK
A strike by air-traffic controllers affected flights Wednesday across France, resulting in cancellations of 10 percent of scheduled flights from Paris’ main international airport, the civil aviation authority DGAC said.
07/15/2010
— Filed under: Business,Society
Tags: fir-traffic, France, strike
An Italian hospice said a 42-year-old woman dying there represents Italy’s second case of human mad cow disease.
07/14/2010
— Filed under: Society
Tags: Italy, mad cow disease
Angry survivors demanded answers from organizers Sunday after 19 people were killed in a stampede at Germany’s Love Parade and officials announced an inquiry into how the tragedy unfolded.
07/13/2010
— Filed under: Crime,Society
Tags: Germany, Love Parade, tragedy
Croatia should complete its EU accession talks in the first half of 2011, several months later than expected, Croatian State Secretary for European Integration Andrej Plenkovic said in an interview Thursday (July 22nd) with Reuters.
