Croatia is the latest and 28th European Union member state. Zagreb submitted a full membership request in latest February 2003 and now the former Jugoslav federal republic joined the other twentiseven members under the starry EU flag, more than a decade later. Croatian entry into the European peace area was combined with one hope: forgetting mid-nineties’ civil war horrors and letting people moving on once for all.
Scenes from Arab revolution on the square of the Bulgarian Parliament, barricades and threw stones and bottles at the symbol of power corrupt and inefficient, unable to pull the country out of an unprecedented crisis.
In the streets of Sofia's protest shows no signs of running out and every day different peaceful demonstrations sinking into a violent drift.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, welcomed with great satisfaction the decision of the EU to include the military wing of Hezbollah on the blacklist of terrorist organizations, adding, inter alia, that Israel does not distinguish between the army and the political faction of ' organization being two sides of the same coin.
Israeli Prime Minister thanked the leaders of the 28 EU Member States and expressed the hope that the decision would lead to "concrete steps against the organization."
For the fifth consecutive day the suburbs of Stockholm are the scene of clashes between residents and police. On 13/05 a 69 year old man was shot to death by police in the neighborhood of Husby, a suburb located about 16 km north-west from the city center, inhabited mainly by immigrants. The man allegedly threatened police officers with a large knife, which would then react to aggression. As was the case in other European cities, the incident has resulted in a series of violent reactions by local citizens, sparking riots in other poor neighborhoods in Stockholm.
The European Union has undeniably made a lot of progress since that day, the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
Almost every aspect of national policy is now determined from Brussels with the European Council and the European Parliament.
The EU now even has its own Foreign Service and is discussing to create your own intelligence and federal police.
After ten years of arduous negotiations, Croatia from July 1, 2013 will become the twenty-eighth member of the EU and will enter the Schengen area by 2015.
How much confusion is created in front of a presumed insult to the religious beliefs of the Muslims, but the history of Hagia Sophia what he tells us, was built starting in 532 and the project was completed in 537 by Justinian I. In 1203, with the Fourth Crusade, the church became a place of Catholic worship, in 1261 it was retaken by the Byzantines, who restored it, but then they were forced to sell it to the Turks, following their conquest of Constantinople, who transformed it into a mosque, disappearing with lime mosaics representing human figures, eliminating the altar and adding the minarets. For more than 900 years Hagia Sophia was the seat of the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople. In 1934 became a museum, and now we are talking about a museum, unwillingly involved in the film by George Lucas, but exceeded this dissertation history in my opinion necessary time for action:
The high level of public debt in Cyprus (86% of GDP) did not allow the government to intervene to save the banks, ricapitalizzandole. The black hole that has plunged the financial sector in Cyprus has undermined the foundations of the entire local economy. GDP fell by 3.3% in 2012, according to the latest estimates for the fourth quarter of last year. Almost 24% of the population (ie, one out of five) is now at risk of poverty.
Virtual clash between a Dutch provider and a web group that works to eliminate spam.
Many users have reported a block in the network because of the battle between the web team opponents.
The organization Spamhouse (based in London and Geneva) has suddenly decided to include in data traffic (side) servers are also used by Cyberbunker.
Cipro era uno dei paradisi fiscali dell’Europa, una destinazione ideale per coloro che volevano evitare plusvalenze ottima per aprire società offshore.
Anche dopo il suo ingresso nell'Unione Europea è rimasta sempre una destinazione importante, per molti investitori stranieri (Russi in primo piano).
Un contesto economico efficiente e sofisticato, unito ad una tassazione del 10%, hanno fatto dell'isola un forte polo di attrazione, per il mercato bancario.
Stanotte è stato raggiunto l'accordo nella riunione dei ministri delle finanze della zona euro: verrà concesso a Cipro un pacchetto da 10 miliardi di euro. Avevamo toccato questo aspetto nell'articolo sull'esito delle elezioni cipriote dove si parlava della necessità di 17,5 miliardi di euro, parlando di alcune perplessità ancora in essere sul paese. Al pacchetto dovrebbe contribuire anche il governo russo, che con il prestito già concesso a Cipro di 2,8 miliardi di euro, estenderà la scadenza dal 2016 al 2021.