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Romanian Coalition Agrees on Anti-Crisis Measures

BUCHAREST, Romania Romania’s squabbling governing coalition agreed on Monday to put aside its differences, agreeing 32 anti-crisis measures that will be enforced on September 1. Prime Minister Emil Boc’s Democrat-Liberals (PD-L) and the Social Democrat Party (PSD) agreed to increase budget revenues, to cut budget spending and to increase liquidity …

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Nato chief assesses Kosovo exit strategy

KOSOVO New Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen made his maiden visit to Kosovo yesterday to evaluate his plans to trim the alliance’s security mission in the breakaway Serbian province a decade after war. Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, hopes to gradually wind down the presence of Nato’s 13,800-strong Kosovo …

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MP seats validated, Government to resign

MOLDOVA Until August 29 the outgoing president of Moldova must issue a decree to convene the eighteenth Parliament for the first sitting The Constitutional Court (CC) dismissed the PPCD’s request to recount the votes as groundless. The Court’s decision on the July 29 elections passed on August 14 does not …

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Ukraine president ‘disappointed’ by Russia

KYIV, Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko rejected criticism of Kiev’s policy towards Moscow in a stinging attack from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who had accused him of being anti-Russian. “I am very disappointed by the openly unfriendly” comments by Medvedev, he said in a letter to the Russian president published …

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EU’s Turkey critics losing popularity

The impact of the constant objection by French and German leaders to Turkey’s European Union membership drive has been revealed through a public survey that showed a significant loss of confidence in these two countries among the public. According to the survey, conducted this month by the Ankara-based International Strategic …

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