WESTERN EUROPE
The U.N. climate conference at Copenhagen, Denmark escaped absolute collapse as participants agreed last week to recognize a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.
Meanwhile France's immigration minister has said that he wants the wearing of Muslim veils that cover the face and body to be grounds for denying citizenship and long-term residence. While in Portugal the Socialist government has drawn up a proposal that would make the nation the sixth European country to allow gay marriage.
The Dutch government has denied allegations that it is allowing the United States to use Caribbean islands to prepare a possible military attack against Venezuela as Hugo Chavez contends. Meanwhile Spain's defense minister has announced plans to send 511 more soldiers to Afghanistan in response to President Obama's request for more allied help to fight the ‘War against Terror’.
SOUTH-EAST EUROPE
In Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou unveiled a four-year plan Monday (December 14th) to reduce the country's crushing budget deficit and bring its soaring debts under control. Meanwhile in Romania the Constitutional Court has declared Traian Basescu the winner of the disputed presidential election. The court ruled that Basescu had won a second term as president after days of uncertainty following a vote the opposition Diplomatic representatives in Albania including the OSCE head and the Dutch Ambassador have warned that the country is risking its EU integration process as a result of the opposition's parliamentary boycott. Meanwhile Kosovars hit the polls last week (December 13th) to cast their ballot in the country's second round of local elections. The municipalities voting this time around have more than one million registered voters. Also the Republic of Malawi has become the 64th state to recognize Kosovo.
High Representative and EU Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Valentin Inzko said on Friday (December 11th) that the political situation in BiH could aggravate during 2010 due to the upcoming general elections. Meanwhile the European Union last week opened its borders unrestricted to more than ten million Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians after nearly 20 years, a major boost for the troubled region's hopes for closer ties with the 27-nation bloc.
In Serbia War crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic has said that authorities are searching intensively for the two remaining fugitives, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, stressing that there is a clear political will to complete the country's co-operation with The Hague tribunal.
While in Croatia the Parliament decided last week that the nation will not increase its presence in Afghanistan next year. The country will keep its current presence of 293 soldiers in the mission. The decision has come despite a US call on its allies to send more troops
US/CANADA
In the United States, continuing the closure of the controversial Guantanamo facility the government is to acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects. Many in the region have welcomed the prospect as a potential economic engine.
Meanwhile the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States is prepared to join other rich countries in raising $100 billion in yearly climate financing for poor countries by 2020. The announcement could give a boost to deadlocked climate talks which have faltered over disputes between rich and poor countries over emissions cuts and climate financing.
The U.N. climate conference at Copenhagen, Denmark escaped absolute collapse as participants agreed last week to recognize a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.
Meanwhile France's immigration minister has said that he wants the wearing of Muslim veils that cover the face and body to be grounds for denying citizenship and long-term residence. While in Portugal the Socialist government has drawn up a proposal that would make the nation the sixth European country to allow gay marriage.
The Dutch government has denied allegations that it is allowing the United States to use Caribbean islands to prepare a possible military attack against Venezuela as Hugo Chavez contends. Meanwhile Spain's defense minister has announced plans to send 511 more soldiers to Afghanistan in response to President Obama's request for more allied help to fight the ‘War against Terror’.
SOUTH-EAST EUROPE
In Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou unveiled a four-year plan Monday (December 14th) to reduce the country's crushing budget deficit and bring its soaring debts under control. Meanwhile in Romania the Constitutional Court has declared Traian Basescu the winner of the disputed presidential election. The court ruled that Basescu had won a second term as president after days of uncertainty following a vote the opposition Diplomatic representatives in Albania including the OSCE head and the Dutch Ambassador have warned that the country is risking its EU integration process as a result of the opposition's parliamentary boycott. Meanwhile Kosovars hit the polls last week (December 13th) to cast their ballot in the country's second round of local elections. The municipalities voting this time around have more than one million registered voters. Also the Republic of Malawi has become the 64th state to recognize Kosovo.
High Representative and EU Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Valentin Inzko said on Friday (December 11th) that the political situation in BiH could aggravate during 2010 due to the upcoming general elections. Meanwhile the European Union last week opened its borders unrestricted to more than ten million Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians after nearly 20 years, a major boost for the troubled region's hopes for closer ties with the 27-nation bloc.
In Serbia War crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic has said that authorities are searching intensively for the two remaining fugitives, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, stressing that there is a clear political will to complete the country's co-operation with The Hague tribunal.
While in Croatia the Parliament decided last week that the nation will not increase its presence in Afghanistan next year. The country will keep its current presence of 293 soldiers in the mission. The decision has come despite a US call on its allies to send more troops
US/CANADA
In the United States, continuing the closure of the controversial Guantanamo facility the government is to acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects. Many in the region have welcomed the prospect as a potential economic engine.
Meanwhile the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States is prepared to join other rich countries in raising $100 billion in yearly climate financing for poor countries by 2020. The announcement could give a boost to deadlocked climate talks which have faltered over disputes between rich and poor countries over emissions cuts and climate financing.
LATIN AMERICA
Cuba’s Fidel Castro has said that President Barack Obama's "friendly smile and African-American face" are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America —a statement depictive of a new cooling in U.S.-Cuba relations.
Supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Port-au-Prince last week calling for his return from exile and protesting his party's exclusion from upcoming elections.
Meanwhile Bolivia's leftist government has seized another big ranch from a top opposition figure. It says the 2,500-hectare (10-square-mile) spread will go to landless Indians. One opposition lawmaker called the seizure "vengeance" by Morales, who easily won the December 6th re-election.
________________________________________________________Cuba’s Fidel Castro has said that President Barack Obama's "friendly smile and African-American face" are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America —a statement depictive of a new cooling in U.S.-Cuba relations.
Supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Port-au-Prince last week calling for his return from exile and protesting his party's exclusion from upcoming elections.
Meanwhile Bolivia's leftist government has seized another big ranch from a top opposition figure. It says the 2,500-hectare (10-square-mile) spread will go to landless Indians. One opposition lawmaker called the seizure "vengeance" by Morales, who easily won the December 6th re-election.
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