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Situation in Moldova discussed at CoE-EU high-level meeting
October 29, 2009The 29th Quadripartite meeting between the Council of Europe and the European Union was held in Luxembourg on Tuesday at the invitation of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It was attended, on the European Union side, by Ms...
EU to start negotiations with Moldova on Association agreement
October 20, 2009The first group of European Union experts will come to Chisinau this week to initiate negotiations on signing an agreement on Moldova's associated EU membership, it was said at the meetings Moldova's senior officials held here with Karl Bildt, the Minister...
COEST troika hears new Moldovan government's tasks
October 08, 2009A Moldovan delegation led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Natalia Gherman presented the main provisions of the new Moldovan Government's work program to the Troika of the Council of the European Union on Eastern Europe and...
Sweden To Press Moldova Over Visas For Romanians
July 06, 2009Swedish Ambassador to Romania Mats Aberg has said in Bucharest that as head of the European Union this year, Sweden will do everything it can to get Moldova to abolish visa requirements for Romanians, RFE/RL's Moldova Service reports. Aberg calls the...
EU suspends the Eastern Partnership Program, Swedish PM said
July 03, 2009The European Union is suspending the Eastern Partnership Program “due to new challenges”, the EU Chairman-in-Office, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced. Reinfeldt said the step had been taken in connection with EU...
Moldova: N. Gherman appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
June 30, 2009Natalia Gherman, Moldova's former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the OSCE and to Sweden [and the daughter of ex-President Mircea Snegur] has been appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the Government decided...
Iranian diplomat: ‘Allah is Great’ on Helmet of Ivan the Terrible
June 12, 2009By Paul Goble An Arabic inscription on the helmet worn by Ivan the Terrible reads “Allah Mohammed,” according to an Iranian diplomat, who told Russian journalists in Astrakhan this week that these words could be an abbreviated form...
Church lot rock actually ancient runestone
April 24, 2009An archaeologist says a rock used to mark a parking lot at a church in Sweden is actually a 1,000-year-old runestone. Stockholm County Museum runic expert Lars Andersson said a rock used to help mark the lot's boundaries is thought to date back to the...