Eurasia Press & News
The EU risks being “overtaken by a racist mentality” against Turks, Turkey’s chief EU negotiator Egemen Bagis said on Wednesday (February 2nd) in an e-mailed statement of remarks in Poland. He was there on Tuesday to attend a commemoration for Holocaust victims at the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
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February, 2011
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4 February
German parliament to ratify SAA with Serbia next week
The Bundestag will ratify the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between Serbia and the EU on February 10th, Michael Stubgen, head of a German parliamentary delegation, said on
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4 February
Swiss lawmakers insist on international probe into Kosovo organ trafficking
The foreign affairs committee of the lower chamber of parliament says the allegations of human organ trafficking in Kosovo should be investigated by an international commission, media reported on Wednesday (February 2nd). The panel discussed the report by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty — who is Swiss — on …
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3 February
Cypriot President says the settlement issue is possible to be reached in 2011
Settlement of the Cyprus issue could be reached by the end of 2011, under the condition that leader of Turkish Cypriots Dervis Eroglu and Ankara accept a solution based on the formula of creating a federation of two communities in the island, President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris said.
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3 February
Finland’s minister of immigration and European affairs to visit Romania and Bulgaria
Finland’s minister of immigration and European affairs will pay a visit to the two countries next week. Astrid Thors will visit Bucharest on 6-7 February and Sofia on 7-8 February. In Bucharest, Thors will meet the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi, and Minister of Administration and Interior Traian …
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3 February
Turkey’s Prime Minister says Egypt’s Mubarak must resign
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday (February 1st) called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to end his 30-year rule amid mass protests in Cairo. “Mr. Mubarak, all of us will die and will be questioned over what we left behind,” Erdogan
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3 February
Greece sends pro-Kurdish Turkish politicians to seek asylum in Cyprus
Authorities announced on Tuesday (February 1st) that they have flown a pro-Kurdish politician wanted in Turkey to Cyprus, where his asylum request should be processed. Mustafa Sarikaya, former
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3 February
EU’s Lajcak to to mediate another round of political talks in Albania
Miroslav Lajcak, the EU’s special envoy mediating the political crisis in Albania, will lead another round of negotiations between the government and the opposition on Thursday (February 3rd). Lajcak will
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2 February
Bosnia receives 92 million euros aid from EU
The European Union has approved 92 million euros for several projects of infrastructure development and fight against corruption in Bosnia. The aid was approved from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) funds, aimed at providing financial assistance to states who aspire to join the European Union or are already candidates …
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2 February
Bulgaria says it is technically ready to join Schengen
Bulgaria is not as ill prepared and corrupt as people in Western Europe would like to paint it, was Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s message to the Austrian people after a meeting chancellor Werner Faymann. Asked by journalists when he expected Bulgaria’s
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