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Judge sets precedent in tackling corruption
Enrico Monfrini, a Geneva lawyer who acts for Abuja, said the demand for seizure of funds outside Switzerland was a legal first for the country, and marks a further step in efforts to tackle theft by corrupt rulers by going after intermediaries as well as principals
Albanian opposition to boycott Parliament
Socialist deputies will not return until government agrees to partial recount of votes cast in June election
Van Rompuy leaves hole in Belgian politics
The delight that most Belgians felt at seeing their prime minister elevated to the presidency of the EU last week was laced with concerns over what his departure from Belgian politics might mean for their own union
Run-off in Romanian presidential contest
The outcome of the first round of Romania’s presidential elections means Traian Basescu, the centre-right incumbent, and Mircea Geoana, his Social Democrat challenger, will face off in a second round in two weeks
Medvedev ire puts party consensus in focus
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev harshly criticised Russia’s hegemonic United Russia political party for allowing dirty election practices at the party’s annual congress in St Petersburg, saying it must ‘get rid of bad political habits’
Ashton plunges into daunting agenda
Unlike Herman Van Rompuy, whose 2½-year term as president of the European Council starts only in January, Lady Ashton will take over half of her new job as soon as the Lisbon reform treaty enters into force on December 1
Mandelson clears tensions on Brussels jobs
Lord Mandelson was said to be furious at the choice, believing Lady Ashton had neither the experience nor the clout to project Europe’s voice on the world stage, and offered himself at the last minute as an alternative candidate.
Insight: US underwhelmed by top EU appointments
At the heart of the Obama administration there was more than passing interest to hear who would get the big new jobs in the European Union, writes Quentin Peel
Business coalition calls for firm CO2 treaty
The private sector investment needed to tackle climate change will not be made without a binding international deal on carbon emissions, according to the head of a big business coalition
Moscow lawyer buried in a hurry
Sergei Magnitsky, the lawyer who died in a Moscow jail after informing on police corruption, was buried in a hurry yesterday after prosecutors refused an independent...
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