News about Europe
Poles will have to okay eurozone entry: minister
Poles will have to okay eurozone entry in a referendum, a senior minister said Wednesday, echoing the prime minister's recent endorsement of a public vote on joining the unpopular currency union.
28 March 2013 18:11
Kazakhstan MPs interested in Finnish experience of countering corruption
Majilis chairman Nurlan Nigmatulin had a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Finland to Kazakhstan Mikko Kinnunen.
28 March 2013 17:08
'Bazooka' attacks slowing Internet: security experts
A "bazooka" cyber attack described as the most powerful ever seen has slowed traffic on the Internet, security experts said Wednesday, raising fresh concerns over online security.
28 March 2013 16:43
Nauryz celebrated in Jesus College
The event was organized by the Central Asia Forum of the Cambridge University and attended by Kazakhstan Vice-PM Kairat Kelimbetov.
28 March 2013 16:39
Draconian controls as Cyprus banks set to reopen
Cypriots will finally get access to their bank accounts later on Thursday after a nearly two-week lockdown, but under tight restrictions unprecedented in the eurozone.
28 March 2013 14:53
Judge in Sarkozy probe receives bullet in post
The judge who charged former president Nicolas Sarkozy with taking financial advantage of France's richest woman has received a bullet and a death threat in the post, say lawyers.
28 March 2013 13:10
Stones to headline Glastonbury
The Rolling Stones will play Britain's Glastonbury Festival, the world's largest greenfield music and performing arts spectacle.
28 March 2013 12:27
From bedroom to boardroom: UK teen turns tech millionaire
Like many British teenagers, Nick D'Aloisio has a hole in the knee of his jeans and gets in trouble when his bedroom is untidy. Unlike most, the 17-year-old has just sold an app to Yahoo! for tens of millions of pounds.
28 March 2013 10:01
Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov appointed Kazakhstan Ambassador to Lithuania
Prior to this appointment Mukhamedzhanov used to work as Akim of Mangistau oblast from December 2011 to January 2013.
27 March 2013 18:43
Brother of British Labour leader to step down as MP: report
British lawmaker David Miliband, who lost the 2010 battle for the leadership of the opposition Labour party to his younger brother Ed, is to stand down as an MP.
27 March 2013 17:42
Health gap in Europe wider than ever
Life expectancy in Russia has marked time since the collapse of the Soviet Union but risen in its former eastern-bloc allies.
27 March 2013 13:34
'Superhuman' efforts made to open Cyprus banks: governor
"Superhuman" efforts are being made to reopen banks in Cyprus on Thursday, as protests and uncertainty over the island's top lender showed a huge bailout has not ended its troubles.
27 March 2013 12:43
French woman drowned babies found in freezer
A 32-year-old Frenchwoman has admitting drowning two of her own new-born children, a prosecutor said Tuesday after infant corpses were found in a freezer at her home.
27 March 2013 12:21
Five jailed in Britain over movie tax scam
Five people were jailed for more than 20 years in Britain on Monday for pretending to make a Hollywood blockbuster to secure millions of pounds in tax breaks from the government.
27 March 2013 11:37
Children born outside marriage in Europe rise to 40 percent of total
The number of children born outside marriage in Europe has doubled over two decades to 40 percent, with Estonia, Slovenia and France registering almost three out of every five births out of wedlock.
27 March 2013 10:48
London court orders Ablyazov's accomplices to pay over $1.5 billion to BTA
London's High Court has made more rulings in favor of BTA Bank in the process against Ablyazov and his accomplices.
26 March 2013 20:49
Kazakhstan to open embassy in Stockholm
Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrissov rendered the official visit to Sweden.
26 March 2013 20:02
Muslim-born convert quits Church after pope change
A Muslim-born journalist whose 2008 baptism by Pope Benedict XVI made him Italy's most famous convert announced Monday he was leaving the Catholic Church over the new pontiff's overtures to Islam.
26 March 2013 18:04
Cyprus banks to stay shut as world markets take fright
Cyprus reversed course and decided to keep its banks shut as world markets took fright at the implications for the eurozone of the island's 10-billion-euro bailout deal with international creditors.
26 March 2013 15:20
French experts train Kazakhstan filmmakers to make documentaries
All documentaries that will be made under the Eurasiadoc program will be broadcasted by French and perhaps other European TV channels.
26 March 2013 14:28