German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande, offered Saturday in Stralsund, a medieval city on the Baltic sea, a powerful demonstration of unity and strength of the famous Franco-German axis. In a forceful joint declaration signed after a two-day informal meeting held in the constituency of Merkel, the German chancellor and the French […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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Europe is about to take a leap forward in the punishment inflicted on Russia by the intervention in the Ukrainian conflict. The representatives of the 28 Member States plan on Monday to include 14 companies blacklisted and sanctioned for the first time. While sanctions still fall within the moderate punishment phase, the decision represents a […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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The Government of Spain has offered Friday a team of four police experts in African networks to collaborate in pursuit of the 200 girls abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. This was confirmed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, who has described the events as “deplorable ” – during […]
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Europe moves slowly towards the ultimate elimination of visas for Colombians and Peruvians. The member countries of the European Union have today approved the new list of exempt states this requirement, in effect since 2001. To dismiss the obligation to request this document in travel to the European Union, it is still necessary that the […]
May 8 2014 | Posted in
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Frank -Walter Steinmeier has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany for less than five months. When he was offered repeat in office he had already taken in the first coalition led by Angela Merkel, the Social Democrat could not imagine that his work would become complicated so quickly. At a meeting Monday with El […]
May 7 2014 | Posted in
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Union of European Football Association (UEFA) has announced that the organization will continue its investigations into the finances of nine European clubs, to new rules requiring institutions to contain their losses, but did not disclose the name of the teams. ” More information will be given when the process is complete,” said a UEFA spokesman […]
May 6 2014 | Posted in
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The European Union does not know how to stop destabilizing derived from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Increasing violence in eastern Ukraine requires hard punishment to Moscow, but the lack of results so far carried Brussels think twice. Although the positions are converging, the Veintiocho still torn between the German, partisan way to explore more of […]
May 6 2014 | Posted in
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Police in Northern Ireland on Sunday released without charge the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, but sent his case to prosecutors to decide whether or not finally prosecute in the 1972 kidnapping and murder of a woman, Jean McConville, at the hands of the IRA. Prosecutors decide prosecution or closure of the case against […]
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Police in Northern Ireland won court permission to continue questioning the president of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, for another 48 hours in a police station Friday. The decision immediately sparked a fierce reaction number two Sinn Fein, Martin McGuinness, who accused the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to act against Adams for political reasons. […]
May 6 2014 | Posted in
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For some time, the Party for the Independence of the United Kingdom (UKIP) has starred in numerous anecdotes and incidents involving episodes of racism, homophobia, mocking people with disabilities, hypocrisy, hatred of Muslims and immigrants, to cheat a little. But none of that prevented their leader, Nigel Farage MEP, become the political fashion, and placed […]
May 6 2014 | Posted in
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As Gerry Adams is arrested by Belfast police for questioning his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville in 1972, one of 10 children of 37 years widow explained this morning on the BBC Today program Radio 4 how he lived those moments. “I know who killed mother, but I can not say. […]
May 3 2014 | Posted in
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Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, has been arrested by police in Northern Ireland for questioning for the murder in 1972 of a Catholic woman believed to be a police informant. Jean McConville, who was 37 years old and a widow and mother of 10, was abducted from her home in the Divis, a suburb west […]
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