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GREECE: Ask for Rights, Get Acid in the Face
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - Around midnight Dec. 22, Decheva Elena Kuneva, a Bulgarian living in Greece since 2001, finished her shift and made her way home. For four years she had worked as a cleaner in the city railways, as employee of a company contracted by the public enterprise.
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EUROPE: Czech Presidency Promises Controversy
Analysis by Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST - The rotating EU presidency has been taken over for the first half of the year by a country with a president who may refuse to sign the EU Treaty, and with a weak government that has more faith in the U.S. than in Europe.
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PORTUGAL: Mega Solar Power Plant Begins to Operate
By Mario de Queiroz
AMARELEJA, Portugal - The most ambitious and innovative solar power project in the world kicked off Monday in this white-walled village in the southern Portuguese municipality of Moura, one of the most impoverished areas in the European Union.
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ROMANIA: Grand Coalitions, Little Hope
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - The new year will bring 'grand coalitions' in government in both Romania and Bulgaria. In spite of politicians' claims that a new union between left and right in both countries aims "to safeguard the best interests of the people" in times of crisis, the new coalitions are more likely another sign that decision-makers pursue self-interest above all.
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ECONOMY-BALKANS: The Old Ways May Be Recession-Proof
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - Two things Serbs never forget to pack when visiting friends and relatives abroad are the kore and the cream. The kore is the traditional hand-made pastry; and the Pavlovic face and body cream has long held its own against more upmarket brands.
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EUROPE: Roma Pay the Price for Far-Right Rise
By Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST - The alarm bell is ringing in Central Europe: as the region braces itself for an economic crisis, extremism grows and gains popular sympathy by targeting the Roma.
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BULGARIA: Students Demand an Environment for Education
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - The killing of a student in front of a nightclub in Studentski Grad (Student City) in Sofia has brought to the fore the chaotic and insecure living conditions of tens of thousands of students housed in the quarters.
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BALKANS: EU Now Appears Further Away
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - EU membership remains the declared goal of many of the countries carved out of former Yugoslavia, but recent developments have made that goal more distant than before.
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ECONOMY: Today, Santa Is the Saviour
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - This time, more than in years before, Christmas is so much more about Santa Claus than about Jesus Christ. Santa has after all, the power to move markets in ways that poor Jesus never contemplated.
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EUROPE: 'Double Standards on Trade'
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - Double standards are being applied in the way that the European Union awards trade preferences to poor countries, an African exporters grouping has alleged.
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EUROPE: Time for Christmas, and to Fight over Fish
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - European Union governments have a strange way of preparing for Christmas: they squabble about fish.
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Q&A: 'We Were Very Good Students of Neo-liberal Ideology'
Zoltan Dujisin interviews Hungarian economist ANDRAS INOTAI
BUDAPEST - A region that has enthusiastically embraced free market economics since the collapse of state socialism is facing new socio-economic and political challenges.
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EUROPE: Swap Aid for Fewer Migrants, the French Way
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - Should the amount of aid that African countries receive from Europe be linked to their efforts to prevent their nationals moving to this continent?
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