EU cites progress in bid to free Bulgarian nurses
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The European Union said on Tuesday it made "substantial progress" in talks with Libya this week to secure the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor held in Libya, but more talks were needed.
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Politics: 26 September 2004, Sunday. Sofia and Tripoli have agreed to ask the European Union (EU) to join the discussions over the case with the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya.
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya have been moved to a special facility in their prison, the Trud newspaper reported Thursday.
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EU plans to make it easier for European patients to seek healthcare within any member state
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The European Union (EU) agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy.
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Libya lifted death sentences on Tuesday against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV, paving the way for them to be freed after eight years in jail.
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EU foreign ministers agreed to lift  an arms embargo on Libya on Monday, despite fears for Bulgarian  and Palestinian medical workers sentenced to death there, but  imposed a visa ban on senior officials from Myanmar.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Gergana Grancharova said her government believes the nurses are innocent and that such a payment could be seen as buying their freedom and an admission of guilt.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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Politics: 6 October 2004, Wednesday. The annual EU report on Bulgaria's progress en route to the block is to be presented later on Wednesday.
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Cuba released three imprisoned  dissidents on health grounds on Monday in what opposition  activists called a bid to end a diplomatic standoff with the  European Union.
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Six foreign medics sentenced to death then life imprisonment in Libya in a controversial AIDS case were free in the Bulgarian capital Tuesday after the EU struck a multi-million-dollar financial and trade deal with Tripoli.
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Thousands of people demonstrated across Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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Politics: 19 January 2005, Wednesday. The European Court of Human Rights found Bulgaria guilty of ill-treating a prisoner, it was officially announced on Wednesday.
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Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG said Friday that a European Union body had moved toward possible approval this year of the cancer drug Avastin.
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Five Europeans kidnapped in Ethiopia 12  days ago have been released and are in good health, British  foreign minister Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a "full partnership" deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.