Nine Bulgarians have been arrested in an international police operation, targeting an organized crime group for human trafficking from Bulgaria to Germany and France, the Interior Ministry has announced.
10/21/2010
— Filed under: Crime
Tags: Human Traffick, sexual exploitation
German business confidence jumped unexpectedly to a more than 3 yr high in October, despite concerns that cooling global growth could slow its recovery, a closely watched survey showed Friday.
10/20/2010
— Filed under: Business
Tags: Dow Jones, Germany, index
David Cameron pledged to block demands from Brussels for a six per cent rise in the EU budget
10/19/2010
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: budget, David Cameron, UK
Greece will meet its target to cut its budget deficit to 7,6 percent next year and will not need to extend the repayment of a multibillion EU/IMF loan, its finance minister told a Greek newspaper published on Saturday.
10/18/2010
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: deficit, Greece, Loan Extension
Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere said that their goal was to move Turkey and the EU closer to each other.
10/17/2010
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Belgium, EU, Turkey
The European Commission warned Italy on Saturday it may face sanctions if it doesn’t remove the 2,400 tons of trash that have piled up in the streets of Naples in the country’s latest garbage crisis.
Geneva Alderink Vander Vliet’s 100-year lifetime has spanned the arrival of radio and the Internet, but is marked most distinctively by family and friends who know her best for a giving nature.
10/15/2010
— Filed under: Society
Tags: 100th birthday, Holland
France supports a NATO-wide missile defense system and is willing to help fund it, a source in the French president’s office said on Friday, dispelling earlier talk that the country was skeptical.
Wednesday the European Commission acted in response optimistically to a French budge to become accustomed to its immigration regulations in an offer to shun legal deed on its contentious exclusion of ethnic Roma folks.
10/13/2010
— Filed under: Society
Tags: Bulgaria, EU, Romania
Greece’s Finance Ministry has taken exception to a post on this blog that argued the government’s deficit reduction program is missing its target. It has sent the following letter from George Zanias, chairman of the ministry’s Council of Economic Advisors. It is here reproduced in full.
