Portugal to conduct probe of CIA extraordinary rendition flights
Portugal is the latest country to open an investigation into alleged stopovers of secret CIA rendition flights transporting terror suspects, according to a report from state-owned news agency Lusa Monday. Last month,...
Anti-abortion protestors took to the streets in Lisbon, Portugal Sunday in advance of a referendum vote scheduled for February 11 in which voters will decide whether to ease restrictions imposed by the current Portuguese abortion law...
Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos argued for an expanded European constitution in his opening statement at the Friends of the EU Constitution summit [press release, in Spanish; additional declaration...
Absolute disregard for law: liquidating the Russian Chechen Friendship Society
Oksana Chelysheva : "On 23 January 2007 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision of the Regional Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate our organization, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. We were...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the European Parliament at a session in Strasbourg Wednesday that EU member nations should ratify the European constitution before...
EU countries knew of CIA prisons, rendition flights: European Parliament report
Many European countries were aware that the US Central Intelligence Agency operated secret prisons or used their territory for the transfer of terror suspects, according to a report released Tuesday by a European Parliament...
Portugal parliament approves abortion legalization referendum
Portugal's Parliament Thursday approved holding a national referendum allowing voters to decide on making abortion legal up until the 10th week of pregnancy. Current Portuguese abortion law allows the procedure up until...
Germany to set timetable for ratification of EU constitution
Germany intends to set up a "road map" for the ratification of the EU constitution when it assumes the rotating EU presidency on January 1, 2007, German Chancellor Angela Merkel [official website; BBC...
Voters in Portugal could go to the polls in January 2007 to vote in a referendum on the legalization of abortion after the ruling Socialist Party made the proposal [press release, in...
Finland's prime minister began the country's six-month presidency of the European Union on Wednesday by promising not to push for the ratification of the stalled European Constitution without building consensus among...
