EU Uneasy Over Killings in Bulgaria
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings -- along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings -- have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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For the Record: 28 October 2004, Thursday. A day after the body of Bulgaria's seventh fatality in Iraq was returned to Sofia, a new round of soul-searching among Bulgarians set off about their country's ...
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The European Union launched an agency  on Monday to monitor human rights across the bloc, but civil  rights groups criticized a move by some member states to ensure  it had no say on police and criminal justice matters.
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The Russian-Georgian spying row, Germany's Afghan mission and a French Socialist leader's decision to bow out of the presidential race are key concerns in European papers on Friday.
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The European Union threw its weight behind Britain on Wednesday in a row with Russia over its refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing a former KGB agent in London last year.
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European Union foreign ministers appealed Friday for calm and expressed solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a school hostage crisis came to a violent end.
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At a China- European Union summit meeting in Hague the European Union said that it was not yet ready to lift its arms ban on China imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre of students.
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Politics: 7 September 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's Euro-affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva leaves for the Hague today to take part in an international conference on European Values Policies.
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BUCHAREST, Aug 30 (IPS) - Recent violent episodes involving Roma in Bulgaria  emphasise the deep prejudice against this ethnic group, as well  as politicians' intention to turn anti-Roma feelings into  electoral gains.
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A European watchdog expresses concern about the treatment of sex offenders in the Czech Republic.
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Politics: 4 October 2004, Monday. The annual report on Bulgaria's progress prepared by the European Union (EU) criticizes Bulgaria's slow judicial reforms, according to a BBC report.
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The European Commission will criticise newest members Bulgaria and Romania for failing to curb corruption.
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The European Union regrets Russia's refusal to extradite a murder suspect to Britain but wants to prevent the standoff further damaging already strained EU-Russia relations, an EU presidency official said on Friday.
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The European Union regrets Russia&#39;s  refusal to extradite a murder suspect to Britain but wants to  prevent the standoff further damaging already strained  EU-Russia relations, an EU presidency official said on Friday.
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One year after Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink was shot dead, Turkey's Armenian community is torn between hoping for better days in the EU candidate nation and moving abroad out of frustration and fear of more attacks.
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The European Union has asked Bangladesh&#39;s military-backed government for information on individual human rights cases, reports said.
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Bulgaria and the European Union called on  Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia,  after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting  hundreds of children with the HIV virus.