| June 14, 2008 | - The Treaty of Lisbon, which reiterates many of the reforms proposed in the discarded European Union Constitution, was rejected by voters in Ireland.
| Source:
The Herald
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| March 1, 2008 | - Storms killed eight people across Europe; gusts blew one elderly man into the path of a lorry.
| Source:
AFP
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| January 21, 2008 | -
British Conservative MP Hugh Walpole delivered a speech in Parliament against the creation of a permanent president of the European Council, a position said to be coveted by Blair. Such a consolidation of power, he said, would make it difficult for national governments to restrain dictates from Brussels “even if the European Commission proposed the slaughter of the first-born.”
| Source:
Parliament
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| July 4, 2007 | - The European Commission posted a 44-second videoclip of 18 orgasms to YouTube in support of European cinema. Critics complained that the title “Let's Come Together” was too suggestive and that the pun fails to work in all EU languages.
| Source:
Reuters via Msnbc.com
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| June 20, 2007 | -
Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
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Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 30, 2007 | - Adults and children in the European Union were getting fatter.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo!NEWS
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| July 24, 2006 | -
Israel insisted it had no immediate plans for a large-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, although it seized two Lebanese towns, called up 10,000 troops to the border, and called thousands of reservists to active duty. Almost 400 people (362 Lebanese, 37 Israelis) have been killed so far in the conflict. European governments debated the proportionality of these deaths, and Syrian president Bashar Assad told the international community to stop procrastinating and broker a ceasefire.
| Source:
NY Times and The Australian
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| June 6, 2006 | - Javier Solana, Europe's foreign-policy director, formally offered Iran a package of incentives designed to persuade the Islamic state to give up its nuclear ambitions; that same day, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran restarted its uranium-enrichment program.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
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| May 30, 2006 | - The European Court of Justice ruled that E.U. airlines are not required to provide passenger data to the United States.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 29, 2006 | - In Germany, at the official opening of the Hauptbahnhof, the largest railway station in Europe, a man went on a rampage and stabbed 35 people. Because one of the first people he stabbed was HIV positive, concerns were raised that some of the subsequently stabbed may also become infected.
| Source:
The Independent
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| May 21, 2006 | -
Finnish horror rock group Lordi (whose most recent album is "The Arockalypse") won the Eurovision Song Contest.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 21, 2006 | - The CIA fired Mary McCarthy, a senior analyst, for leaking information about the CIA's network of secret prisons in Eastern Europe to a reporter from the Washington Post.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| February 27, 2006 | - The European Union approved a $140 million aid package for Palestine.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 8, 2005 | - The European Sound Climate Policy Coalition, an ExxonMobil-funded lobbying group, was working to destroy Europe's support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
| Source:
The New Zealand Herald
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| December 5, 2005 | - Facing criticism over the United States' network of secret prisons in Europe, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointed out that intelligence gathered from terrorism suspects has helped prevent attacks in not only the United States but Europe as well. Rice also asserted that the United States does not transport detainees from one country to another for the purpose of torture.
| Source:
AP
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| November 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that the United States imprisoned terrorism suspects in Kosovo, at a prison described by the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner as “a smaller version of Guantánamo.”
| Source:
Forbes/AFX
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| November 24, 2005 | - The Netherlands threatened to withdraw its support for U.S. military missions if the United States continued to refuse to acknowledge its network of secret Eastern European prisons. “The U.S. should stop hiding,” said Netherlands Foreign Minister Ben Bot. “It will all come out sooner or later.”
| Source:
Al Jazeera
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| October 27, 2005 | - The European Union denied a French company's attempt to trademark the smell of fresh strawberries.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 27, 2005 | -
Europe, previously burning, was flooding. Floods killed 33 people in Romania, and parts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Poland were under water.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 8, 2005 | -
Iran rejected a plan put forth by the European Union that would have limited its ability to manufacture weapons-grade uranium.
| Source:
The Australian
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| August 5, 2005 | -
Wildfires were burning all across Europe.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Climate Ark/AP
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| July 6, 2005 | - The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 against software patents.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 2, 2005 | -
Latvia ratified the European Union Constitution.
| Source:
China Daily
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| May 30, 2005 | -
France rejected the proposed constitution for the European Union, Germany ratified it,
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
BBC News
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| April 13, 2005 | - The European Union decided to admit Bulgaria and Romania in 2007.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 1, 2005 | - The European Union placed a 15 percent duty on American
trousers and sweet corn.
| Source:
Times Online
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| February 21, 2005 | - Speaking in Brussels, Bush called on Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon; he also said it was time for Europe and the United States to work together.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| February 20, 2005 | - A study showed that 310,000 Europeans
die from air pollution each year,.
| Source:
The Independent
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| January 25, 2005 | - and the European Union reestablished diplomatic ties with Sudan for the first time since 1990.
| Source:
The New york Times
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| May 14, 2004 | -
European Union's envoy to Slovakia said that Gypsy children should be taken from their parents and put in boarding schools so that they can learn "European values."
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 1, 2004 | - Ten new countries joined the European Union.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| April 21, 2004 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain announced a referendum on the proposed European constitution.
| Source:
BBC
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| March 24, 2004 | - The European Union fined Microsoft $613 million for abusing its "near monopoly" on personal computers.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 25, 2004 | - The European Union banned live poultry and eggs from the United States because of the bird-flu outbreak, and the United States banned all French meat and poultry.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 30, 2003 | -
Mail bombs were sent to Romano Prodi, president of the European Union Commission; to Europol, the European police intelligence agency; and to the president of the European Central Bank.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| December 5, 2003 | - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, currently serving as president of the European Union, declared that Europeans have a duty to support the American war in Iraq, even if it means "a change in international law, which previously held that the sovereignty of a single state was inviolable." Berlusconi also denied that he is short; "I'm as tall as Aznar," he said, referring to Prime Minister José María Aznar of Spain. "I'm the average Italian," he continued. "Right?"
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 15, 2003 | - Sweden voted overwhelmingly against joining Europe's common currency.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 9, 2003 | -
Italian babies, it was found, are the fattest in Europe.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 1, 2003 | - The United States, the
United Nations,
Russia, and the European Union, acting collectively as "the Quartet," presented Israel and Palestine with the famous "road map" to peace that President Bush promised to reveal once the Palestinians acquired a prime minister independent of Yasir Arafat.
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| December 18, 2001 | - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi finally agreed not to block the creation of Europe-wide arrest warrants even though one could be used to arrest him.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Archaeologists announced the discovery of artifacts in South Africa that establish modern human behavior in Africa more than 70,000 years ago, which contradicts the prevailing theory that such traits as symbolic thinking emerged in a “creative explosion” only after humans migrated to Europe 40,000 years ago.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Lists of Florida flight schools, a flight-simulator program, and a map showing power plants in Europe were also found. It later emerged that the atomic-bomb recipe was a parody that has been circulating on the Internet for years.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
British women have the largest breasts in Europe, a study found, though they are not the fattest.
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| October 16, 2001 | - President Leonid Kuchma finally admitted that Ukraine accidentally shot down a commercial Russian airliner, but said that mistakes happen everywhere: “Look around the world, in Europe; we are not the first and not the last.”
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| July 24, 2001 | - A British judge was trying to decide whether a ban on public cavorting with inflatable sex dolls contravenes European Union human-rights legislation.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
Researchers found that Italian mothers are the most anxious mothers in Europe.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
President Bush went to Europe but avoided France and Germany, whose leaders are unlikely to go along with his missile-defense scheme. “There's some nervousness,” the President said, “and I understand that. But it's beginning to be allayed when they hear the logic behind the rationale.” In Sweden, at a meeting of the European Union, Bush told reporters that “we spent a lot of time talking about Africa, and we should.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Researchers found that Scots are the most potent men in Europe.
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| June 12, 2001 | -
President Bush went off to Europe, where he is viewed, according to a senior administration official, as a “shallow, arrogant, gun-loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon.”
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Scientists found signs of syphilis in the bones of a medieval girl from Essex, England; the find may prove that Christopher Columbus did not carry syphilis to Europe from the New World as was previously thought.
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| April 17, 2001 | - The United States and Europe finally ended their nine-year banana war.
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| March 27, 2001 | - The European Union passed a resolution calling on 39 drug companies to drop a lawsuit against South Africa in which they seek to overturn a law that would lower the price of anti-AIDS
drugs.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
United States
agriculture officials continued to insist that Americans were at little risk from mad cow disease, despite the fact that testing has not been widespread. Loopholes still exist in regulations concerning feeding ground-up farm animals to other farm animals; deer in several western states are infected with another form of spongiform encephalopathy; an unknown number of sheep have scrapie, a form of spongiform encephalopathy; captive mink in eleven midwestern states developed spongiform encephalopathy after being fed untested “downer cows”; and beef byproducts such as milk, blood, fat, and semen are still imported from the U.K. and Europe. The prions that cause mad cow disease survive freezing, cooking, and incineration, which complicates disposal.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Australia and New Zealand banned all European Union beef products.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
European
scientists warned that the region's fish and other seafood were contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxins and other toxins.
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| December 12, 2000 | - The European Union decided to stop feeding ground-up farm
animals to other farm animals for at least six months in an attempt to stop the spread of mad cow disease; all cattle over the age of thirty months must be either tested or destroyed.
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| November 21, 2000 | - A German
general was named to head the European Union's “rapid reaction force.” Germans were horrified that Israeli soldiers had killed a German doctor outside his home in the West Bank.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Friends of the Earth reported the discovery of Monsanto's “Roundup Ready” corn in European food; the genetically modified corn has not been approved in Europe for any use.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Political violence continued in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
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| September 19, 2000 | - Similar demonstrations over fuel prices took place all across Europe.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Europe's tallest structure, a 1,772-foot television tower in Moscow, burned, killing at least three and disrupting television for 20 million Russians.
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