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At the moment an Argentinian working for a French company in Spain can't travel to France for a meeting on his long-term visa.
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An EU-wide strategy is needed to combat violence against women, which must be recognised as a crime, said participants in a European Parliament public hearing with national parliaments and civil society representatives, held on Tuesday to mark International Women's Day.
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People needing liver transplants or other organ donations should face shorter waiting times after MEPs voted on Tuesday for measures to improve the supply, safety and quality of donated organs.
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Do you remember everything the doctor said during your short encounter about the medicine prescribed for you? Probably not.
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European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht today opened a conference focused on the European Union's trade policy towards developing countries.
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Between 2001 and 2008, Morocco enjoyed the benefits of sound economic management and reforms. Its growth rate doubled from the 1990s to an average of 5.1%, while per capita income also doubled to $2,850 in 2008.
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You know its Tet in Vietnam when Peach and Kumquat orange trees decorate every home, shop and public establishment.
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A surveyor has set up his tripod and instruments under a hot tropical sun to measure plots of land in a village where the Dac Kray minority community were settled four years ago.
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Thoung Ly ward in the bustling port city of Haiphong, Vietnam, is bordered by a sludgy grey canal that flows into the sea with the waste of those who live beside it.
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At the beginning of the 2000s, state ownership in financial intermediation in Mexico accounted for about 20 percent of the total credit of the banking system, provided through development financial institutions and funds.
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In the half century since its independence, Tunisia has made major economic and social advances, including a quadrupling of per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and an increase in life expectancy to near developed country levels.
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The European Commission will adopt today a decision confirming the risk areas set up by the Romanian authorities in relation to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a backyard poultry farm located in the commune of Letea, in Tulcea county, at the Danube's delta close to the Ukrainian border.
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With public healthcare systems under pressure from an ageing population, governments are increasingly looking to information technology to provide relief.
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The stalled Middle East peace talks dominated the sixth plenary session of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA), in Jordan (12-14 March).
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"Jews out" and "Hitler good," -- phrases vandals spray painted on a holocaust memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow near Krakow.
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Japanese men are answering the call of Valentine s Day a month late.
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It s enough to curdle one s appetite -- cheese made out of breast milk
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Halving the number of business failures by offering individual support, doubling the number of young people who want to start their own business or raising by 500% the number of enterprising new cooperatives are just some of the projects nominated for the European Enterprise Awards 2010.
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The European Commission has published the fourth call for proposals for the creation and upgrade of freight transport services under the second Marco Polo programme.
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The European Commission’s Budget Directorate-General is asking pupils aged between 15 and 19 from Germany and Austria to have a close look at the EU budget and submit their findings in the form of a report or short video.
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