Slovaks and Czechs reject French minister's suggestion over EU funds
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The Slovak and Czech governments rejected a proposal by French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to axe structural funds for new EU members whose taxes were lower than the European average.
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Author Bernard-Henri LÃ©vy rejects French President Nicolas Sarkozyâs contention that his countrymen think too much.
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.
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THE CABINET's consultation body, the Council of Economic Ministers, has recommended to the Slovak cabinet to accept a proposal for awarding a World Bank grant worth $350,000 ( 322,000) to the Slovak Republic.
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A revised plan on the final status of Kosovo is unlikely to overcome Russian objections at the UN, France says.
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The European Union rejected a request by the United States to eliminate public subsidies for the aerospace groups Airbus and Boeing.
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PRAGUE, Sep 25 (IPS) - The case of an ethnic Hungarian student who claims  to have been attacked by Slovak xenophobes has come to symbolise  the persistent clashes that strain relations between two of the  EU (European Union)'s most unfriendly neighbours.
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The European Union rejected a request by the United States to eliminate public subsidies for the aerospace groups Airbus and Boeing, a European Commission spokesman revealed.
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The Czech lower house of parliament rejected on Friday a leftist opposition proposal to hold a national referendum on hosting a part of a U.S. missile defense shield.
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Sarkozy said Sunday he planned to propose to his EU colleagues that the bloc's new members with lower than average tax rates be barred from receiving structural aid funds, arguing that if they were rich enough ...
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The European Union (EU) constitution is not well received in the Czech Republic as 86 percent of its people said they had no interest in it at all, according to results of a survey published on Thursday.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico criticized the United States for bypassing NATO with a plan to deploy a missile defense system in central Europe, calling the project an adventure.
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SLOVAKIA'S ambitious tax reforms, much welcomed by the business community, have attracted severe criticism from the French Government.
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EU finance ministers failed for the second time in a month to reach an agreement on reforming alcohol tax as the beer-loving Czech Republic dug in to oppose higher rates.
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PRAGUE- The Czech Republic has refused to obey EU rules and despite the European Commission's disagreement intends to raise prices of short-term motorway toll stickers for lorries, daily Mlada fronta Dnes wrote ...
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Claims that Moldova's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States means its preferences of Russia versus the European Union are a mistake, Moldovan Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan told the government ...
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PRAGUE, Oct 15 (IPS) - Following months of strained ties with Hungary,  Slovakia's government looks increasingly isolated after  parliament approved a resolution hostile to the country's  Hungarian minority.