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Democracy Digest: Year of Living Dangerously
By way of contrast, Chinese pressure to stop Jaroslav Kubera visiting Taiwan took a more sinister turn when the Senate president keeled over from a heart attack. When his successor, Milos Vystrcil, embarked on the trip anyway in September, Beijing hoped to similarly scare Prague with threats of retaliation.
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Iohannis: Romania salutes EU - UK agreement partnership regarding future relations
Romania salutes the agreement partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regarding future relations, after the UK left the European Union, says president Klaus Iohannis in a message published on Thursday, on Twitter.
Vaccine documents hacked as West grapples with virus surge
Documents related to the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine were illegally accessed during a cyberattack at the EU regulator, the company said on Dec. 9, as Germany and other northern hemisphere countries grappled with a winter surge in the pandemic.
Turkey Wants to Improve Ties with EU
Turkey urged the European Union on Tuesday to use "common sense" to end a dispute over natural gas that has fanned territorial rows in the eastern Mediterranean and drawn a threat of sanctions from the bloc's leaders.
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Bulgaria - Second in Road Fatalities Rate in EU
Bulgaria has the second highest death rate in the European Union after Romania in terms of road traffic fatalities. In 2019, the road deaths rate in the country was 89 per one million people. The average figure for the European Union is 51 road deaths per one million people.
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Prices drop in April
Inflation turned negative in Greece in April, largely because of the collapsing oil prices, the EU statistics agency Eurostat announced Thursday.
The consumer price index dropped 0.9 percent in April, compared to April 2019; in March, inflation was 0.2% and last April, 1.1%.
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Italexit is next?
More than 70 percent of Italians estimate that a coronavirus crisis will cause the European Union crack-up, the research has shown.
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Frontex says 100 more border guards are in Greece
EU border agency Frontex said on Friday it had deployed an additional 100 border guards to Greece's northeastern border to assist in the country's efforts to prevent migrants trapped in the buffer zone from entering its territory.
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Editorial: Solidarity requires deeds
Undoubtedly the visit of the presidents of the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament (accompanied by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis) to the Greek-Turkish land border at Evros constitutes a strong message of solidarity with Greece.
The top EU officials made declarations of solidarity and support for Greece at a critical moment.
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EU urges Syrian regime to halt 'escalation of violence'
The European Union on Dec. 29 called on Syria's regime and its allies to halt "indiscriminate" military attacks on civilians in the country's northwest, where an intensifying bombardment by Damascus and Russian forces has displaced tens of thousands.