EU Hopes for Clean End to Ukraine Election
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Western diplomats said on Monday they had  secured assurances that Ukraine would hold a free and fair  presidential run-off election, seen as a choice between closer  ties with Russia or moves toward the West.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday praised the outcome of Ukraine's presidential election and insisted that the divisive campaign should not lead to the breakup of the country.
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The EU has told Italy to end the crisis that has left mounds of rubbish in Naples within a month or face court action.
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President-elect Viktor Yushchenko met the European Union's foreign policy chief on Friday ahead of his inauguration and a packed European tour aimed at setting Ukraine firmly on a new course closer to the West.
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Ukraine's outgoing president will meet Friday with opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko in the presence of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and European envoys in a bid to solve a political crisis over the country's disputed election, a European Union official said.
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President-elect Viktor Yushchenko met the  European Union's foreign policy chief on Friday ahead of his  inauguration and a packed European tour aimed at setting  Ukraine firmly on a new course closer to the West.
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A European Union summit with Ukrainian leaders will discuss progress made on democratic reforms,
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BRUSSELS  - Incoming EU executive head Jose Manuel Barroso said he hopes for &quot;clear&quot; approval when EU lawmakers finally vote on his new team later this month, to end an unprecedented state of limbo in Brussels.
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The twice-yearly EU-Russia summit today in the Dutch city of The Hague was predictably overshadowed by the aftermath of the 21 November presidential election in Ukraine.
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The European Union said Friday it &quot;hoped to reach a conclusion&quot; at a meeting of foreign ministers on the participation of military-ruled Myanmar in an upcoming summit of Asian and European nations.
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KIEV -- Talks between Ukraine's two rival presidential candidates broke down yesterday, but the arrival of a key European Union envoy offered fresh prospects that a peaceful solution to the crisis over the nation's disputed election could be found.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukrainian President Viktor  Yushchenko, vowing to install a clean government, asked  parliament Friday to approve radical Yulia Tymoshenko as his  prime minister to lead the country into mainstream Europe.
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The end of weeks of political turmoil in Ukraine was in sight after the pro-Europe Viktor Yushchenko was officially declared the winner of a re-run presidential vote, paving the way for the inauguration of the "orange revolution" hero.
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Ukraine prepared for a new vote on Sunday in hopes to end its political crisis, but those hopes may be premature.
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Europe and the United States welcomed the outcome of Ukrainian presidential elections won by pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko, and urged the former Soviet state's leaders to heal their divisions to end a month-long crisis.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - France urged Ukraine's new  authorities under reformist president Viktor Yushchenko to take  a gradual approach in preparing for eventually joining the  European Union and urged Kiev to uphold good ties with Russia.
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The European Union and the United  Nations urged Kenya's feuding politicians on Saturday to agree  a peaceful, democratic end to a violent political crisis that  has killed 500 people since a disputed December 27 election.