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Mozambique Airlines Interrupts Flights Between Maputo And Lisbon
Mozambique Airlines, LAM, the country’s flag carrier said it will interrupt flights between Maputo and Lisbon from November 22 as it plans to start operations with its own equipment and crew bearing the national colors, the company said in a statement...
Spain Looking to Open the Debate on Compensations for Island Status
During its Presidency of the European Union, Spain wants to open the debate on compensations for island status as a way of facilitating greater territorial cohesion. The Government First Vice-President, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, who announced...
Working Towards a Common European Civil Law System
European Union justice ministers have examined the possibility of achieving greater coordination on civil and family law which would enable them to unify criteria and facilitate the adoption of EU-wide laws on issues such as separation, divorce, wills...
80 Million Europeans Live in Poverty
The Spanish Health and Social Policy Minister, Trinidad Jiménez, and the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Vladimir Spidla, have addressed the press in Madrid on the launch of the European Year for Combating...
Lisbon Treaty Will Come Into Force on December 1
The prime minister of Sweden has said that the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, now ratified by all 27 member states, will come into force on December 1. On Tuesday Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the document after the country’s Constitutional Court...
Compromise Agreed with Czech Republic Over Treaty of Lisbon
EU leaders have agreed to demands from the Czech president in return for the country’s ratification of the ambitious EU reform treaty, the Swedish prime minister has announced. The reform treaty, also known as the Treaty of Lisbon, is an international...
Slovakia Might Follow the Czech Republic’s Example And Object to the Lisbon Treaty
Slovakia’s prime minister has said on Czech television that the country could follow the Czech Republic’s example and voice its objections to the Lisbon Treaty over potential post-World War II property claims. Robert Fico said Bratislava does...
African Development Bank Signs Loan Agreement for Submarine Fiber Optic Cable in Western Africa
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and Main One Cable Company have signed a $61 million loan agreement for the financing of a submarine fiber optic cable connection along the West African coast. According to a statement copied to APA, the system...
