Eurasia Press & News
The EC postponed until the end of May the eventual unblocking of the European ISPA program funds. The information was reported Sunday by the Bulgarian news agency BGNES citing the Bulgarian National television (BNT). According to the European Commission’s (EC) notification, Bulgaria only very recently presented to Brussels the requested …
Read More »Bulgaria PM Wishes Obama Luck in Difficult Times
Bulgaria’s PM, Sergey Stanishev, had a brief exchange Sunday with the US President Barack Obama. Stanishev attended the meeting between the US President and the leaders of the European Union (EU) Member States in Prague. Stanishev said in an interview for Darik radio that he had the opportunity to speak …
Read More »Party of Communists leads in Moldovan parliament election
CHISINAU, April 5 (- The ruling Party of Communists leads in the Moldovan parliament election with 45.5% of votes, according to exit polls conducted at 220 polling stations. A total of 18,000 voters were polled. The Liberal Party and the Liberal Democratic Party rank second, each with 13.9%, while the …
Read More »Election may bring Moldova closer to EU
An elderly Moldovan woman casts her vote in a mobile ballot box brought to her by election officials in the village of Dorotchaia, near the border with the pro-Russian breakaway Transdniester region. The country voted yesterday for a new parliament that will choose a successor to President Voronin, the only …
Read More »Moldova votes for new parliament, president to go
CHISINAU – Moldovans went to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new parliament that will choose a replacement for President Vladimir Voronin, the only communist leader in Europe and the former Soviet Union. Voronin, in office since 2001, cannot stand for a third consecutive term but has made …
Read More »Moldova votes with pro-EU Communists tipped to win
Moldovans were voting in parliamentary elections with the dominant Communists, who tread a fine line between promoting EU integration and friendly ties with Moscow, tipped to win. The party, the first self-described Communist group to have won power in the former Soviet Union, is well ahead in opinion polls for …
Read More »As Moldova votes, rebel region clings to Russia
TIRASPOL: As voters in the ex-Soviet republic of Moldova go to the polls today, half a million residents of an impoverished rebel province in the east of the country won’t take part. For the people of Transdniestr, which broke from Moldova after the collapse of the Soviet Union, all roads …
Read More »Active campaigning ends in Moldova parliament elections
Chisinau – Active campaigning came to a halt in Moldova on Saturday, as the former Soviet republic prepared to elect a new parliament. The streets of the capital Chisinau were free of electioneering Saturday morning, as a nationwide last-day ban on election advertising went into effect. The poll-leading Communists ended …
Read More »Voting Saturday in Slovakia, Sunday in Moldova, Macedonia
Slovaks are voting Saturday in a presidential run-off election between the popular incumbent and a strong opposition challenger. President Ivan Gasparovic won nearly 47 percent of vote in the first round of elections last month. He now faces the top opposition candidate, sociologist and former social affairs minister Iveta Radicova, …
Read More »Semnificaţia geopolitică a votului din 5 aprilie
Autor: Dan Dungaciu „Politica internaţională se referă întotdeauna, cu toată prietenia şi relaţiile comune, şi la susţinerea interesului propriei ţări” (Cancelarul german Angela Merkel, New York Times, 29 martie 2009)Declaraţia cancelarului german, dintr-un interviu oferit presei americane, justifică franc divergenţele dintre Germania şi SUA faţă de modul în care trebuie …
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