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EU countries will send troops to Mali, following a meeting today of the foreign ministers of the 27 EU member states where they are expected to support the French intervention in the country, the daily reports. Poland will ultimately send a dozen or so…
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The European Parliament has published a report, warning member states to avoid an „unfair share of austerity efforts“ being divided between regional and national level authorities and urging governments to be more flexible with regions on deficit contr…
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France has not confirmed the presence of French nationals or the death of one of its citizens at the Ain Amenas natural gas facility in eastern Algeria close to the border with Libya, which came under attack from an armed group calling themselves the K…
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The government has announced its intention to impose a 35 per cent tax on Hungarian owned bank accounts in other countries. The accounts, which are estimated to contain between 1trn and 2trn forints (€ 3.3bn to €6.6bn), are mainly held in Switzerla…
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Former Austrian interior minister and MEP Ernst Strasser’s jailing for four years for corruption should be “proclaimed the length and breadth of the European Union” as a deterrent against graft, trumpeted the European Voice. The politician was ca…
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I Kathimerini, Athens – On the eve of the British PM’s much-anticipated speech on Britain’s EU membership, the Brussels correspondent of Greek daily I Kathimerini says that, no matter what David Cameron may say in Amsterdam, Britain has alrea…
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NEW YORK – Prihodi su poskočili 50 posto, na 9,2 milijarde dolara. Pritom je neto dobit odjela za investicijsko bankarstvo poskočila 63 posto, na 1,4 milijarde dolara.
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ZAGREB – Redovni promet iznosio je oko podneva 3,7 milijuna kuna, što je otprilike 1,5 milijuna manje nego jučer u ovo doba.
One Briton and a Frenchman were killed by Islamist militants who raided a remote gas engineering site operated by BP, Statoil and Sonatrach in Algeria and took up to 41 Western and Asian personnel hostage. The action, an apparent revenge attack followi…
War in Mali: ‘13 Norwegians taken hostage. A notorious Islamist may be behind it. The Foreign Minister has dispatched a crisis team’
A number of employees from the Norwegian firm Statoil were taken hostage by an Islamist group following an attack on a gas plant close to the Libyan border. The exact number and nationality of people kidnapped was unclear. Oslo has yet to confirm a rep…
“Tightening control” over the rating agencies is the goal of the third wave of measures approved by the European Parliament, notes La Vanguardia, following a report led by MEP Leonardo Domenici, who feels the management of these agencies is marked …