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Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Mar 27, 2009	US online gambling laws against WTO rules, says EU
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP): The European Commission said Thursday that US laws restricting online gambling went against WTO rules but that Brussels would seek a negotiated solution to the dispute. "It is for the US to decide how best to regulate Internet gambling in its market, but this must be...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Feb 17, 2009	Economic turmoil is worse than terrorism
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - The European Union is beginning this difficult week with the discussion of its financial problems, which are getting more serious with every passing day. From February 16 to 20, European finance ministers and heads of central...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Dec 14, 2008	The significance of Sept. 9, 2001
By FİKRET ERTAN: “… Massoud took a telephone call. Eight Arabs had been arrested by his troops near the front lines. He asked engineer Arif to see if he could find out more about them, and Arif left the room. The visiting reporter read out a list of questions while his colleague...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Dec 4, 2008	Will NATO survive without Ukraine and Georgia?
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - Neither Ukraine nor Georgia received the Membership Action Plan (MAP) status at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. This was so clear that the issue was not even discussed. In NATO, one vote is enough to reject a...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Oct 21, 2008	Guyana has signed the Caribbean Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union and its Member States
Guyana signs the Caribbean EPA: GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyanese Ambassador to Brussels, Dr Patrick Gomes has signed the Caribbean Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on Monday in Brussels. The European commission (EC) in a short statement said it is delighted by Guyana’s move. ...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Oct 16, 2008	The European Union and Caribbean Nations Sign New Trade Pact
EU, Caribbean sign new trade pact: By Caribbeannetnews - BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP): The European Union and 13 Caribbean countries signed a trade deal on Wednesday aimed at guaranteeing the region privileged access to Europe's markets, the European Commission said. The pact marks the...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Sep 24, 2008	Europe's population would decline without migrants
By LEIGH PHILLIPS: The population of the European Union is avoiding decline mainly thanks to immigration from other parts of the world, as native Europeans have stopped making as many babies. While anti-immigrant feeling is on the rise both amongst European politicians and the wider...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Aug 20, 2008	NATO's 'Caucasus Council'
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political observer Andrei Fedyashin) - The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels on August 19 at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique. In the end it turned...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 26, 2008	Agent Kolar, Bush’s new hope for destabilizing Cuba
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —Granma International staff writer— • CAUGHT up in a series of scandals that erased what little credibility it had on the Cuba issue, the Bush administration, which until now trusted that its Cuban-American mercenaries would succeed in destabilizing the country, has...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 2, 2008	The Great European Union (EU) Betrayal
An erosion of democracy:- By The Nassau Institute - Nassau, Bahamas: The new European Union treaty approved at a summit of member states in Lisbon in October, 2007, has attracted fierce opposition in Britain. It has been labeled "the great EU betrayal". The controversy is as much...... [view]