Need an EU grant? Call a Romanian witch
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Hag-assisted applications Any reader trying to secure an EU grant but finding the happy band of nations less than forthcoming with the cash is advised to get over to Romania, where supernatural help is at hand.â¦
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Germany gets a green light from the European Union to give $165 million for research on internet search-engine tech that could challenge Google. The Theseus project would develop an advanced multimedia search engine to translate, identify and index images, audio and text.
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Romania will hold its first elections to the European Parliament on 25 November, Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu announced on 22 August, ending months of suspense. via Dod On Line
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How many gilded fairy tales do you want? There was the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta in 1996 and the Fantastic 5 in Anaheim last summer. Was anyone really counting on dethroning the Romanians at an overseas Olympics?
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Traditional farmers near Bucharest discover they must invest and modernise or leave the industry, as Romania gets ready to join the EU.
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Some Lithuanians were a bit too anxious to introduce the euro to their country. In what is being billed as the largest seizure of counterfeit euro notes since they were introduced, Lithuanian police have ...
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BRUSSELS - Help Wanted: Nurses, doctors, engineers. Must be willing to live in Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, or Prague.
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Let's get connected The European Commission has pledged â¬78m to fund research projects into tailoring computer grid technologies and services to meet the needs of European businesses.â¦
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The Romanian government is to review 3.6bn ($4.8bn, 2.5bn) worth of state contracts with three large western companies to determine their legality.
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Europe is home to an estimated 7 million to 9 million Gypsies, also known as Roma. In a major effort to help one of Europe's largest, poorest and fastest-growing ethnic minorities, leaders of many Central and Eastern European countries are vowing to address their problems.
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - A man who went to prison three years ago for claiming that he was robbed of Romania's biggest ever lottery prize has won a new lottery jackpot - this time for real.
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STRASBOURG, France -- The European Commission recommended Tuesday that Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union next year _ but under some of the harshest terms ever faced by new members.
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The costs of Romania's accession to the European Union in 2007 are actually the costs of this country's modernization, which should anyway have been planned even without having a community support.
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Some Polish workers in Britain are illegally claiming child benefit in both the UK and their home country, a BBC investigation has found. Officials in a number of Polish regions told the BBC that up to half the applications they see are fraudulent.  EU rules allow migrant workers to claim benefit for children who are in a different country, but they cannot do so in two countries at once. A similar problem involving German-born Turks led the German government to rescind acknowledgment of dual nationality several years ago.
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Nick Thorpe meets Romania's traditional farmers who now face extinction after the country's entry into the EU.
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BUCHAREST, Romania, July 2 -- An heir of Romania's former royal family put "Dracula's Castle" in Transylvania up for sale on Monday, hoping to secure a buyer who will respect "the property and its history," a U.S.-based investment company said.
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Brussels docs to teach translation software The European Commission is seeking to make us all speak in Brusselsese by donating millions of its documents to translation software developers.â¦