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European Union: EU top jobs

EU top jobs

The chances of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband becoming the European Union’s foreign policy chief are improving. Italian Massimo D’Alema’s communist past is considered a handicap by …

European Union


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European Elections: How to boost the European vote

How to boost the European vote

Question: “Hello, I’m from Germany and I would love to know what the European parliament could have done to better motivate people to vote in the parliamentary elections.” Answer: “Hi, my…

European Elections


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: Neukölln puts accent on integration

Neukölln puts accent on integration

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than 38 per cent of the Berlin city district of Neukölln is made up of immigrant familes and the unemployment rate in the immigrant community is…


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Economy: Latvia blues, from military-political to economic

Latvia blues, from military-political to economic

Twenty years after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, today Latvians are facing another battle… for economic survival.

Economy


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Terrorism: Mauritania’s battle with a new wave of terrorism

Mauritania’s battle with a new wave of terrorism

The terrorism that Tunisia experienced in the 1980s erupted in Algeria in the 1990s. The wave of terrorist activity later spread west to Morroco. Then in 2005 Mauritania to the south became engulfed…

Terrorism


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Poverty: Poverty and social exclusion

Poverty and social exclusion

Most EU citizens do not consider themselves to be at risk from poverty, but 73% of them do consider poverty in their own country to be widespread. These are among the findings of a Eurobarometer…

Poverty


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Economy: Germany and Poland join hands across the Oder

Germany and Poland join hands across the Oder

Its six fifteen a.m. this is Berlin, Bogdan Kazimirek catches the eastbound Eurocity train to Poznan in Poland, the Polish frontier is just 60 kilometres from the German capital. The German and…

Economy


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Travel: Visa-free EU travel for Balkan states?

Visa-free EU travel for Balkan states?

The European Commission has proposed that citizens from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia be allowed to travel freely to the EU member countries without a visa from this coming January. Their outlook…

Travel


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: Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall 20-years on

Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall 20-years on

1989 saw two of the most dramatic events in recent world history, in June China ordered the crackdown on pro-democracy students at Tiananmen Square, while five-months later the Berlin Wall fell…