Yahoo News - Hopes that Iceland could agree with Britain and the Netherlands over the terms of repaying $5.7 billion owed to the two countries collapsed Thursday, as officials said talks in London ended without a final resolution. It is estimated the repayments will cost Iceland the equivalent of $60,000 per family.
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FT - Google on Thursday mounted a renewed defence of the way it ranks search results, as fresh questions emerged about its practice of sometimes manually intervening to override its automated ranking system.
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GEORGIA struggles to make its case in Germany, which sees trade ties with Russia as vital and the ex-Soviet Caucasian republic as troublesome. So who better to burnish Georgia’s image there than a German-educated Habsburg? Georgia’s new ambassador to Berlin, once she presents her credentials to the president next month, will be Gabriela Maria Charlotte Felicitas Elisabeth Antonia von Habsburg-Lothringen, princess Imperial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia.
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Au cours des dernières années, l’accès illégal de Washington aux données bancaires confidentielles des ressortissants européens était devenu à la fois le symbole de la vassalité de l’Union européenne, et la pierre angulaire de l’intégration de l’UE dans l’Empire transatlantique. Cependant, en utilisant les nouveaux pouvoirs que lui confère le Traité de Lisbonne, le Parlement européen a interdit la légalisation de cette pratique.
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Official unemployment climbed a full percentage point in Russia during the month of January and now stands at 9.2 percent. Despite government claims that the recession is over, the state statistics agency Rosstat reported that a further 630,000 people lost their jobs last month. Economists, using the methods employed by the International Labour Organisation, say the total number of jobless is close to 6.8 million.
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La réunion des Vingt-Sept qui se tient à Bruxelles ce jeudi en pleine crise financière pourrait signer la naissance d’une sorte de gouvernement économique européen. Cette idée longtemps combattue par certains Etats semble aujourd’hui incontournable, constate la presse.
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Selon Le Figaro, l’ancienne ministre de la Culture qui a défendu le projet de loi Hadopi devrait rejoindre l’équipe de Stéphane Richard à la tête de France Telecom. Une surprise qui a de quoi faire rire ou pleurer, selon l’humeur.
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Prague outranked Paris, Stockholm and Vienna in a list of the EU’s richest regions published on Thursday (18 February) by Eurostat, the bloc’s statistics office. The chart is however based on 2007 data, at the height of an economic boom in the central European state.
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Der liberale EU-Abgeordnete Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (FDP/ALDE) sieht gute Chancen für eine Lösung des Namensstreits zwischen Mazedonien und Griechenland. Beobachtern zufolge könnte bald ein “Nord-Mazedonien” auf der Weltkarte auftauchen. Der Weg zu EU-Beitrittsverhandlungen wäre frei.
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A solution to Macedonia’s name dispute with Greece should be found in the coming four months, so as to start EU accession negotiations under the Spanish EU presidency, enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele said during his visit to Skopje on Friday (19 February).
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WHEN the Turkish government signed a deal with Armenia last October, it looked like a clear achievement for its policy of “zero problems” with its neighbours. Now Turkey is throwing a fresh tantrum. The Armenian constitutional court recently approved the agreement on the grounds that it satisfied the founding principles of the state, which include seeking worldwide recognition of the 1915 tragedy as genocide.
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The United Arab Emirates summoned European Union ambassadors over the weekend to demand that steps be taken to strengthen the security of passports in the wake of the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai by individuals carrying fake EU papers.
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se passe loin d’ici et qui coute la vie d’hommes est de plus en plus impossible. C’est ce qui vient de coûter le pouvoir au gouvernement de coalition néerlandais. D’autres gouvernements pourraient suivre - même le gouvernement national est sous pression.
Jan Peter Balkenende ist mit seiner Koalition am Thema Afghanistan gescheitert. Die Regierungen des Briten Gordon Brown und seines spanischen Kollegen Zapatero sind ebenfalls in Gefahr. Den Wählern einen Anti-Terror-Einsatz zu verkaufen, der weit weg stattfindet und Menschenleben kostet, ist zunehmend unmöglich. Das hat die niederländische Koalition jetzt die Macht gekostet. Weitere europäische Regierungen könnten folgen – auch die Bundesregierung steht unter Druck.
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