News archive of October 2014

Swept along by the excitement as the Berlin Wall was torn down, former top Soviet officials now say, 25 years on, they feel stabbed in the back by the West.
      
Igor Maximychev watched with trepidation from the Soviet embassy in Berlin as East Germans streamed towards the Wall the night it came down.        

Serbia "not balancing EU bid and Russia ties"

MOSCOW -- Serbia is not attempting to balance between its EU ambitions and its close ties with Russia, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has said.

He spoke for the Business New Europe (bne.eu), a Moscow-based English language magazine, Tanjug reported.

For a Hungarian animal shelter, Halloween is less about pumpkins, witches and ghosts, but keeping black cats out of the hands of Satanists.

“Unfortunately cats here are prized by Satanists who want to use them in seances and sacrifical rituals around Halloween,” Kinga Schneider, head of the Noah’s Ark Foundation in Budapest, told AFP.

BRUSSELS - Eulex had suspended one of its staff members before media reports of alleged corruption among the mission's top officials were published, and it is a separate case, unrelated to a suspected disclosure of information, says Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson of EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Catherine Ashton.

MOSCOW - Serbia is not attempting to balance between its EU ambitions and its close ties with Russia, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in an interview to Business New Europe (bne), Moscow-based English language magazine.

PRAGUE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Prague on Friday that full EU membership is Serbia's strategic goal, and noted that along that path Serbia wants to revive its economy, and that Czech companies are welcome to assist Serbia in the process.

PM invites Czechs to invest, addresses Russian gas problem

PRAGUE -- Aleksandar Vučić said in Prague on Friday that full EU membership is Serbia's strategic goal, while "along that path" Serbia wants to revive its economy,

The prime minister added that "Czech companies are welcome to assist Serbia in the process."...

Two of three suspects detained over the killing of three off-duty soldiers in the eastern province of Hakkari have been arrested.

The suspects were captured by police on Oct. 27 as a part of the operation launched after the death of the soldiers and were sent to a court in the Yüksekova district after being questioned.

Hungary's prime minister on Oct. 31 scrapped plans to introduce an Internet tax that had sparked major demonstrations and further concerns about civil liberties in the central European EU member state.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Friday that he is worried by President Traian Basescu's recent allegations about the EADS case file, which in his opinion confirms the existence of corruption in the relationship between Romania and Germany.