News About Europe 15-MAY-08 en-us Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2008 - President Bush's two-day visit to Kiev on the eve of NATO's April 2-4 summit in Bucharest, Romania, is his first visit to Ukraine and therefore long overdue. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, visited Ukraine on three occasions. Bush's visit to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit is seen as a strong show of U.S. support for NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia. ]]> ]]> Berlin (AFP) March 10, 2008 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel signalled on Monday that she opposes granting NATO membership to former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia.]]> Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2008 - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed caution Wednesday on the hopes of Georgia and Ukraine moving closer towards membership of NATO, ahead of alliance talks on their aspiration.]]> Moscow (AFP) Dec 8, 2007 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Saturday of blocking a cooperation programme between Moscow and the NATO alliance in a row over a European arms treaty, Russian news agencies reported.]]> ]]> Brussels (AFP) Oct 17, 2007 - EU heads of state and government meet in Lisbon on Thursday and Friday seeking to endorse a wide-ranging reform treaty for the bloc. The draft text runs to over 250 pages. Here are some of the main aspects of the treaty which Brussels hopes will enter into force in 2009 after being ratified by all 27 member states.]]> Brussels (AFP) Jul 17, 2007 - NATO is weighing its response to a "tough" Russian announcement that it will suspend a key Soviet-era arms treaty in December, a NATO diplomat said Monday. "Moscow has sent a quite tough memorandum ... on the reasons that led it to suspend the treaty and which sets the date from which it will apply as December 12," the diplomat said, on condition of anonymity.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 20, 2007 - An emergency conference of the 30 signatories to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), which met in Vienna on Russia's initiative, ended without adopting a statement because its participants failed to reach a compromise. Russia called for an emergency meeting in Vienna to try and speed up the ratification of the 1999 amended CFE treaty version by the U.S. and Europe.]]> ]]> Brussels (AFP) April 18, 2007 - Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski appealed to the European Commission Wednesday to stop making decisions that might slow down development in the former communist state.]]> Bordeaux, France (UPI) April 18, 2007 - The postmen of France have done their Herculean job, delivering more than 300 million election addresses, one for each of the 12 presidential candidates, to more than 25 million households in France. The labor unions have spoken; the traditionally Communist railway workers staged a lightning strike Tuesday that left passengers fuming and muttering about more votes lost for the Left.]]> Prague (UPI) March 26, 2007 - The European Union celebrated its 50th birthday over the weekend with a summit party in Berlin that began in secrecy, proceeded into rancor and ended in a grand and characteristically banal compromise. At issue was the Berlin Declaration, a statement of EU principles and objectives that was supposed to answer the burning question, what does Europe do now?]]> SOLAR  ENERGY  SOLUTIONS

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]]> ]]> Berlin (UPI) March 20, 2007 - Germany's military is increasingly active in international peacekeeping missions, yet the country's military ombudsman in a report presented Tuesday said German soldiers were underpaid and had to endure run-down barracks.]]> Washington (UPI) Feb 05, 2007 - Opinion polls throughout Europe report that the biggest issues on the mind of the European public are the economy, jobs, immigration and Islam. But the dominant issue on the political agenda of the European Union is whether and how to revive the ill-fated draft constitution, which was assumed to be dead after the 'No' votes in a referendum in France and another in Holland in 2005.]]> Paris (UPI) Jan 03, 2007 - In Europe at the start of this New Year, all eyes are turning to the east, where three intriguing dramas are under way. Ready or not, Romania and Bulgaria have joined the European Union, and are thus safely within the gated community. Belarus is paying the price for being outside, bullied by increasingly assertive Russia into paying more for its energy supplies, and having to "sell" Gazprom half of its pipelines into the bargain.]]> Advertise in Terra Daily and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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