Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish officials have voiced regret over France’s rejection of the EU constitution on Sunday (29 May). While insisting they do not expect the result to affect their countries’ EU bids, they called for stronger efforts towards meeting all membership requirements. Tariceanu A “no” vote would mean EU …

There is not a more important thing on earth than human rights, of which the right to life is the first one. The importance of this was persuasively demonstrated during the meeting of N.A.T.O. foreign ministers in Vilnius by near 1000 Lithuanian soldiers, policemen and civil-dressed guards with dogs, horseback, …

Lately Putin has begun to speak much about “elections” in the pro-Russian “Chechen parliament”. He also mentioned it in his annual application to the Federal assembly. But this is mere words and demagogy, as it is impossible to solve the problems of the country, which is at war with Russia …