RIGHTS-EUROPE:  It Now Suits the EU to Help Roma
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BUCHAREST, Sep 29  (IPS) - Tired of asking her husband to read soap opera  subtitles on TV, Tasia Stanescu  decided to learn to read them  herself.
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Tony Blair is joining fellow European leaders in Rome to sign the EU's controversial new constitution.
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European Union leaders signed the Treaty  of Lisbon on Thursday to reform the bloc's institutions.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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Europe's programme for funding scientific research in the member states is a step closer to being adopted.
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The European Parliament gave its overwhelming endorsement to the European Union's first-ever constitution Wednesday and urged EU governments to quickly follow suit.
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EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini says member states must show solidarity dealing with refugees.
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PRAGUE, Dec 16 (IPS) - Roma rights groups have hailed a ruling by British  law lords that British immigration  controls at Prague airport  breached international laws against racial discrimination.
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"The EU will be ready to give a formal go-ahead to the mission a few days after the election"  The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday that the EU will sanction the dispatch of a police force to Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo after the country's presidential election. via RIA Novosti
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PARIS, Dec. 14 -- European Union leaders on Friday pledged 1,800 police and administrative officials to Kosovo, part of a package of aid and diplomacy intended to facilitate a well-choreographed, quick and peaceful march to independence for the breakaway Serbian province.
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EU leaders are in Rome to sign a new treaty which sets up the first European constitution and expands the EU&#39;s powers and authority.
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The leaders of Italy, France and Spain sent a letter to the European Union on Monday, urging the bloc to approve measures to help them cope with the flood of illegal migrants from Africa.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 2 (IPS) - The EU is being urged to address the human rights  content of its asylum and immigration policy due to be adopted  later this week.
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European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has offered new concessions to Euro MPs on civil rights in a bid to ensure his new commission team is approved in a crucial vote in Strasbourg.
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European Union officials on Thursday launched the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights &#151; the 27-nation bloc's latest effort to stamp out intolerance as it struggles to absorb an unprecedented crush of immigrants.
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PRAGUE- The government approved the draft European constitution and decided that Prime Minister Stanislav Gross and Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda will sign the document at this Friday's ceremony in Rome.
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The European Commission gave Bulgaria and Romania the go-ahead to join the European Union in January, but with the closest monitoring system ever imposed on new members.