Romanians Vote Slowly, Eyeing EU, Poverty and Graft
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Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, went to the polls on Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who will lead the Balkan country through two years of hard European Union-dictated reforms.
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Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party was poised for a narrow victory in the country's parliamentary elections yesterday with polls suggesting that it was leading the pro-business Justice and Truth Alliance ...
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Opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania's hotly-contested presidential election dominated by the country's EU membership bid, but the centre-right mayor of Bucharest faced the arduous task of trying to form a government from a fragmented parliamentary base.
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BUCHAREST: Romanians voted for a new president on Sunday with fighting corruption and joining the EU the main themes in a run-off round pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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BUCHAREST, Romania Change is coming to the country of Romania after voters backed an opposition candidate for president. The election signals an important shift for the Eastern European nation, breaking the
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BALACIU, Romania  - Desperate parents are fleeing the poverty of Romania's countryside in search of work elsewhere in the European Union, leaving their children behind to be cared for by others.
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Prime Minister Adrian Nastase has not secured enough votes for an outright victory in the first round of Romania&#39;s presidential elections.
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Although it is long enough, the question needs clarifications. The Romanian voters know, by their christening, wealth and fortune names, who the members of the group who is milking Romania are.
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Romanians vote today in closely contested elections for the country&#39;s Presidency as well as the Parliament. About 18 million voters began casting ballots at 5am (Irish time) at 17,000 polling stations from
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (IPS) - European Union officials were this week branded  "slow" and "lazy" in addressing discrimination  faced by the Roma community, the continent's largest  transnational minority.
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The eagerness of Finnish citizens to go out and vote seems to be slackening off, particularly in the Helsinki area and in Uusimaa.
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BUCHAREST  - Romanians went to the polls to elect a president in a second-round run-off vote pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the favourite, against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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BUCHAREST  - Romanians rang the end of an era as they voted for a president to succeed Ion Iliescu and lead the former communist country into the European Union.
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Latvians head to the polls, but low turnout is expected amid a lack of issues and series of corruption scandals.
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Romanians began going to the polls today to elect their third post-communist president, who will complete the Balkan nation&#39;s drive to join the European Union by 2007.
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Romanians anxiously awaited an official count on Monday to reveal who will be their next president after exit polls from Sunday's run-off vote put Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu neck-and-neck.
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BERLIN : Voting got off to a slow start in a traditional stronghold of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) which faced its last test at the ballot box this year.