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The Greek parliament has approved more cuts in public spending to meet the terms of a second European Union-led bailout deal. The measures will reduce

On Tuesday, the General Affairs Council today adopted its conclusions

Twenty-two years after the fall of Communism, Romania’s parliament completes adoption of a lustration law. Romania’s lower chamber of parliament, the Camera Deputatilor, on

EP president Martin Schulz will express the European Parliament’s solidarity with the Greek people when he addresses the national parliament this evening. Today he is on his first official visit to Athens, where he will meet the country’s political leaders. Mr Schulz will be meeting president Karolos Papoulias, prime minister …

Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Christofias has told the United Nations and other international actors that his government was ready to continue talks with the Turkish Cypriots on reunification of the island after

Greek lawmakers are to vote on a package of tough salary and pension cuts Tuesday as part of measures needed to secure the payout of the debt-ridden country’s second international package of bailout loans. Greek Cabinet ministers were also

If EU facilitator Robert Cooper proposes to resume the Kosovo talks after elections in Serbia, Belgrade will accept that, negotiator Borislav Stefanović says. “We will definitely consult with Cooper and if that is

The adoption of the EU resolution on Macedonia’s progress for 2011 will open the dossiers of the secret services, since the report of MEP Richard Howitt envisages continuation of the lustration process with the possibility of public declassification of the archives. The report calls for the authorities to announce the …

The EU acknowledges the European choice of Georgia. It welcomes the efforts to conduct reforms and underlines the great importance of fair parliamentary and presidential elections. It declares that it will closely monitor the events in the country during the pre-election period, the EU

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany kept her strategy for attacking Greece’s debt problems on track with a victory in Parliament yesterday but won the vote only with the help of opposition parties. Without votes from the Social Democrats and the