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Croatians voted on Sunday to becomes the 28th member country of the European Union.
The voter turn-out was low at 44% but the decision emphatic, with 66% saying yes to ac cession, which is to take place in July next year, once the existing member governments have ratified it.
The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy (picture), is facing some daunting tasks to restore his position six months away from the presidential elections.
His predecessor, Jacques Chirac, faced a corruption trial this week - absent from court due to illness.
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Along with the triumphal shouts and celebratory bursts of gunfire in the streets of Tripoli; unease still ruled in certain parts of town; the search for Muamar al-Gaddafi heated up, with offers of a bounty; and international gatherings began, aimed at funding the beginnings of a new order, and promoting a turn to democracy. … Read More »
“This is the most humble day of my life”, said Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corporation, on Tuesday, at the commencement of a parliamentary hearing in London into the affairs of his company.
Well into the hearing, a member of the public lunged at him with a shaving cream “pie” on a plate, causing a ten-minute recess, a young man ending up in handcuffs, (and journalists there saying Wendy Murdoch, defending her husband, took on the assailant).
The Select Committee on Culture and Media said it had reconvened because it had been misled in a 2009 investigation into the hacking of private telephones by the Murdoch group newspaper, The News of the World. … Read More »
OPINION: Old controversies have been revived by an appeal court at The Hague, blaming the Dutch state for the deaths of three men at Srebrenica in 1995. … Read More »
A court decision in New York has generated great confusion in the political community, and even wider community in France.
How can it be that Dominique Strauss-Kahn (picture), publicly accused of attempted rape, manacled, gaoled before going into house arrest, could suddenly be let go on bail? … Read More »
A central fund for feeding the poor of Europe has been cut back, because of a legal ruling on how it should operate … while a survey of the EU population finds that rich or poor, European people are highly concerned about Mother Earth. … Read More »