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In an emotionally charged yet dignified atmosphere Parliament's Polish President Jerzy Buzek led Members of the European Parliament in a ceremony to honour the Polish plane crash.
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Football shares Europe's values of integration, solidarity and social inclusion, and can play a significant role in helping the EU to promote them, especially at the local level where clubs are part of their local communities.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė received letters of credence from the Ambassador of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Abdelkader Khemri.
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The European Tourism Stakeholders Conference, being held in Madrid today and tomorrow, will explore ways and means to strengthen the visibility of tourism at a European level and to verify how the actions to promote a competitive EU tourism industry.
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On 11-12 April in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Presidency of the Community of Democracies held a convening meeting of the Working Group on Gender Equality.
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This is China's J-10, a domestically developed third generation military fighter jet.
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Followers of Kurmanbek Bakiyev attend a rally to show their support for the ousted Kyrgyz President.
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Poland mourns the loss of first lady Maria Kaczynska, whose coffin arrived after a plane crash in Russia that also killed her husband President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), World Bank Group member IFC, and The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) have joined up with the Asia Debt Management Hong Kong (ADM Capital) to establish a regional fund to invest in midsize companies facing financing difficulties as a result of the financial crisis.
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Statistics Lithuania has calculated that, based on provisional data, FDI in Lithuania in 2009 amounted by 5.3 % more than in 2008. Also, direct investment of Lithuanian enterprises abroad grew by 13.9 % in 2009.
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Ahead of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Board meeting in Berlin on April 15-16, the World Bank Group today called on candidate countries to maximize their efforts to achieve the key transparency milestone of completing EITI validation as soon as possible.
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As one of the fastest growing economies in the world—with average annual GDP growth of 7.2% of during the decade prior to the FY08-09 economic slowdown—Vietnam has lifted some 35 million people out of poverty.
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For Chinese wanting to flaunt their wealth, owning one of these furry friends has become the way to do it.
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Concerns about foreign fish being sold in Europe and what to do about the future of Europe's fisheries industry were aired in a hearing held by the Fisheries Committee on 8 April.
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EU opens public debate on its agricultural policy, the prelude to a major reform in 2013.
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On 16 April the European Economic and Social Committee will host a day-long mock plenary session attended by over one hundred secondary school students and their teachers from the 27 EU countries.
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The European Commission today launched a €35 million call for eco-innovation projects to be funded under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme.
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Civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan last week left over 70 people dead, more than 1500 injured and over 500 hospitalized.
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Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today following his meeting with Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych.
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After lots were drawn, ten winners of Danske Bankas scholarships and one winner of an iPod shuffle player were established.
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