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EU President's secret bid for economic power
The new President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, is using the financial crisis sweeping the eurozone to launch an audacious grab for power over national budgets, leaked documents reveal.
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Merkel handed massive bill as court strikes down benefits system
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
German welfare system fails to ensure a 'dignified minimum income', court rules
British soldiers quizzed over resort bar brawl
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Six British soldiers were being questioned by police today after reports of a brawl in a Lanzarote bar.
Schoolgirl falls into 'swallow hole'
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
A schoolgirl escaped serious injury when she tumbled into a deep 'swallow hole' that opened up near her home in Ireland.
Jail threat to skiers who go too far off-piste
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Italy expected to rush through legislation after deadly weekend on slopes leaves eight dead.
Yanukovych claims election 'fair'
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Supporters of the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych danced in the snow in Kiev yesterday, celebrating the victory of their candidate in the Ukrainian presidential election, as international monitors praised the vote as free and fair.
Briton dies in Tenerife 'burglary'
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
A British man has died in Tenerife, the Foreign Office said today, in what may have been a bungled robbery.
Pensioners 'kidnapped adviser'
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
berlin Four elderly Germans have gone on trial charged with kidnapping their financial adviser and imprisoning him in a bid to recover €2.5m (£2.2m) in lost savings.
Old foe set to crush Orange revolution
Monday, 8 February 2010
Ukrainian Prime Minister cries foul and threatens to challenge election result
Zapatero loses lead in Spanish opinion poll
Monday, 8 February 2010
The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has fallen behind the opposition for the first time since he came to power in 2004, according to a poll published by El Mundo newspaper.
Ukraine goes to polls after vitriolic campaign
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Nationalist heroine or Russian favourite? Five years on from the Orange Revolution, the former Soviet state must choose – and it's set to be close
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Columnist Comments
• Hamish McRae: Rescue Greece and we help ourselves
The consequences of a Eurozone member not repaying its debt would be unthinkable
• Andrew Grice: Brown's insurance against defeat
PM's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism
• Mark Steel: They believed what suited them, and ignored what didn't
Iraq evidence was collected only to back a decision already made
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