Western Balkans countries have made some progress towards European Union entry but they face ‘hard work’ in their bid to join the bloc and as members, EU officials have warned.
05/21/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: EU, membership, Western Balkan
The European Union must do more to avert a global food crisis, for example by scrapping its biofuel target and introducing tougher regulation of commodities markets, the Oxfam charity said on Tuesday.
05/20/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: EU, food security
A sizzling equity market rally took most of the shine away from government bond prices on Tuesday as investors tossed core European bonds down the safety chute. Yields rose sharply after EU officials ruled out a «total restructuring» of Greek debt and announced that they were engineering a new package likely to be unveiled towards the end of June.
05/19/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: bond, goverment, Greece
Some of the UK’s smallest businesses could benefit from simplified accounting rules after the EU agreed to cut red tape for so called ‘micro-entities’.
05/18/2011
— Filed under: Business
Tags: smallest firms, UK
The European Commission has run up red flags over the competition implications of the disk drive industry’s current game of musical takeovers.
05/17/2011
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: competition, disk drive, EU
Cyprus president Dimitris Christofias has said that Turkey has no chance of getting into the European Union unless it withdraws its army from Cyprus completely, Bulgarian media reports said on May 31 2011.
05/16/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Cyprus, Dimitris Christofias, Turkey
There are a lot of books, documentaries and studies, devoted to Russian mafia. This article shows a European view of this criminal phenomenon, which scares the world.
05/15/2011
— Filed under: Crime
Tags: Europe, Russian mafia
European Ministers back the European Commission’s action plan to fight early school leaving.
05/14/2011
— Filed under: Society
Tags: EU, plan, school
The reforms in education sector in Sindh province were reviewed at length by a team of World Bank and other high ups here on Saturday.
05/13/2011
— Filed under: Society
Tags: education reforms, EU
It was announced by the Serbian President Boris Tadic the arrest of most alleged and wanted war criminal of Europe, Rakto Mladic.
05/12/2011
— Filed under: Crime
Tags: Ratko Mladic, Serbia