The EU summit has broken up supposedly after laying the foundations for banking union, but in fact behind the scenes it appears little has been decided and divisions remain, above all between the French and Germans. While François Hollande claims 10 member states have signed up to the so-called...
Explosion from a roadside bomb tore into a minibus carrying people to a wedding in northern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving 19 dead and 16 wounded, authorities said, - AP reported. Spokesman Shir Jan Durani said the group was traveling to Dawlat Abad district, about 450 kilometers (270 miles) northwest...
Central Election Commission will sign the protocol - final report of the 1 October Parliamentary election today. The session will be attended by the members of CEC. There will be two original documents of the protocol, one of them will be kept at the CEC and another one will be sent to the parliament...
United States` ambassador to Georgia Richard Norland holds meeting with Adjara authorities in Batumi. Richard Norland has met with the head of the Adjara Supreme Council and the mayor of the city. The meeting was introductory and it was closed for media. Ambassador said they focused on the general...
Israeli Ambassador visited the company «Elit Electronics». During the visit the ambassador went to «Elit Electronics' shops and after met the management of the company. As you know «Elit Electronics» is owned by the public company of Israel «Brimag». «Brimag»...
European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule and Helga Schmidt, Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs of European External Action service have completed their visit to Georgia. Within the framework of the visit the guests held several meetings in Georgia. They...
NATO Secretary General`s Special Representative to South Caucasus and Central Asia has departed from Georgia after an overloaded schedule of meetings during his one day visit. James Appathurai summed up his visit with a brief comment for media in the airport saying the October 1 parliamentary elections...
Member of the Republican Party of Georgia, Zurab Marakvelidze will be the chief of the parliament staff - Georgian Dream coalition has announced. The first session of the parliament of the 8th convocation will be held in Kutaisi on October 21. The GD leaders have already monitored the new building of...
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili returned to Tbilisi from Bucharest, Romania late night, after a few hours` delay. The official statement of The President's administration reads, that President`s plane had to make an emergency landing at the airport at the Bucharest airport due to a technical...
A the special event in the Brussels office of newly registered "EU-Georgian, Abkhazian and Ossetian International Movement: for peace, democracy and development" (EUGAO), it's core founder and President, Prof. Nestan Kirtadze, presented to international press the organization, its aims...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the proposed European banking supervisor could be in place some time in 2013. The idea of a banking Tzar was advanced at the EU leaders' summit in Brussels on Thursday after pressure from France to shore up the currency bloc's lenders. Ahead of the...
Google is blaming a printing blunder for its shares nosedive after the early release of a disappointing earnings report. The details - showing third quarter profits fell 20 percent on year - were revealed three hours earlier than planned by the tech giant's financial printers. Figures for...
Parents and teachers joined the third and final day of student protests in Spain on Thursday over proposed cuts to the education budget. Rallies were held in several cities to demand that austerity measures, that have seen the number of classroom teachers shrink, be reversed. Student unions say...
Greece is braced for a general strike in protest against the next round of spending cuts, required in return for another bailout instalment, - BBC reported. It will be the country's 20th national stoppage since the debt crisis erupted two years ago and comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels. Taxi...
European leaders come together today in what is being billed as a summit to strengthen economic and monetary union, - euronews reported. But at this, the fourth meeting this year, the debt crisis is as usual set to colour discussions as the 27 EU leaders look for a way to restore confidence in...
