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The Council today1 adopted a decision concerning restrictive measures (visa ban) against the Transnistrian leadership (13623/10).
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South Africa, with approximately 50 million inhabitants, has the 25th largest population in the world, and occupies a position of geo-strategic importance in the Southern hemisphere.
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The Commission announced today its intention to restructure the process of progressive adoption of the list of permitted health claims on food products (also known as “Article 13 claims”).
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With a multitude of language-related events taking place on or around 26 September, the main themes for this year's European Day of Languages are business and jobs.
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The 26th of September marks the European Day of Languages. Perhaps the Knights of the Order of St John in the Middle Ages prided themselves about the fact that they had eight “langues” but Parliament does better with its daily “Headlines” on its website in 22 languages.
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A proposed new plan focuses on closing the pay gap and opening up company boardrooms to more women. Tackling domestic violence is also a top priority.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York attended lunch hosted for heads of states by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attending the UN General Assembly in New York met with the interim President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Roza Otunbayeva.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė made an address in the panel discussion “Women as a Critical Force in Democratic Governance” hosted by the Community of Democracies under the Lithuanian Presidency and the Council of Women World Leaders.
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Speaking at the general debate of the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė underlined that in a global world, all our countries, large and small, must share responsibility for the future.
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The EU disbursed today € 1.15 billion to Romania, the third instalment of a € 5 billion loan, which was agreed in May 2009 as part of a multilateral financial assistance package.
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Nine nominations for the 2010 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought have been tabled by EP political groups or groups of over 40 MEPs.
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On September 15-17 in Ashgabat City, Turkmenistan, the fourth international telecommunications and information technology exhibition and conference, called TurkmenTEL 2010 was held.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė took off for New York to attend the 65th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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The European Investment Bank has agreed to lend GBP250 million for the replacement, reinforcement and expansion of the gas distribution networks operated by Scotland Gas Networks and Southern Gas Networks.
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Patients will be better informed on how to use medicines, and enabled to report their adverse effects directly to national authorities, thanks to updates of EU laws agreed with the Council and endorsed by Parliament on Wednesday.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė watched the multinational special operational forces exercise “Jackal Stone 2010” in Klaipėda.
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The world's smallest cow and longest canine tongue are included the 2011 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.
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As the primary source of daily noise, pollution and congestion, car traffic relentlessly erodes our health and quality of life.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from the Ambassador of Latvia, Martinš Virsis.
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