FIS Council approves Pepi Strobl's change of nationality
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Josef Pepi Strobl has been authorized by the highest levels to compete for Slovenia in any upcoming races.
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The revised team of European commissioners headed by Jose Manuel Durao Barroso was approved by the European Parliament (EP) on Thursday.
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The president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has announced that the US recognised his country simply as &quot;Macedonia&quot; with the approval of US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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The Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, has ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was signed by Russia in 1997.
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Elected last year as the president of the sportâs governing body in Europe, UEFA, Michel Platini has quickly brought a playerâs sensibility and perspective to the world of European soccer.
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Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Christian Strohal, who had the mission to assess the first round of voting of the ...
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They won't be at Olympus next year without an act of Congress, which is as unlikely as Dennis Hastert landing a quadruple salchow. Tanith Belbin won't make the citizenship changeover from Canadian to American until after the Winter Games, so for her and ice dancing partner Benjamin Agosto, the road to Turin, Italy, is a dead end.
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Switzerland has finally become a full member of the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), after 20 years of regular polar studies.
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The European Parliament has approved the new European Commission, the European Union&#39;s executive body, after an unprecedented dispute during which the assembly managed to increase its institutional clout.
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STRASBOURG, France, Nov 16  Italy's Franco Frattini sailed through a key test of his bid to become the EU's justice and security commissioner today, winning approval by the European Parliament's key ...
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BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (IPS) - Immigration policy threatens to divide EU member  states as the new European Commission looks for a common stand.
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The United States will assign an officer from the FBI to work at the office of the pan-European police office known as Europol, U.S. and European Union officials said Sept.
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A law allowing security officials in Germany to create the largest and most comprehensive pool of personal data ever amassed in the country goes into effect Thursday as the European Union's largest member state moves to protect itself against possible terrorist attacks.
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Politics: 21 October 2004, Thursday. Bulgaria's Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov has confirmed that there will be a change of personal identity documents to include new data.
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European Union lawmakers finally approved a new executive commission, ending three weeks of limbo sparked by an unprecedented row over the line-up.
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The conductor Daniel Barenboim, already a contentious figure among fellow Israelis for championing Palestinians' rights and the works of Hitler's favorite composer, has accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship.
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(Corrects Kafeel&#39;s occupation to engineer and name of his  brother to Sabeel)