It is holiday season in Brussels. Belgians and tourists stroll through Christmas markets that sell hot, spiced wine and Belgium's famous waffles. They pause before an enormous Christmas tree in the Grand Place, the central square of Brussels that is

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年12月

直布罗陀担心英国脱欧之举会使直失去欧盟保护 Red phone boxes, double-decker buses and pubs, Gibraltar is an unmistakable British outpost in southern Europe. The territory was ceded to Britain by Spain in 1713; a British vote to lea

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All but two of the European Union's 27 members have signed up to a new treaty on tighter fiscal rules. Britain's refusal to sign was flagged well in advance. The key point for me here is what is in our national interest and our national interest is t

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US Apologizes Over EU Ukraine Insult美国为自己在乌克兰问题上的侮辱性言论向欧盟道歉 LONDON A senior U.S. State Department official, Victoria Nuland, has apologized to the European Union after using an expletive while discussing

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HARI SREENIVASAN: And to another NewsHour correspondent overseas, Ray Suarez in Davos, Switzerland. He's moderating panels at the World Economic Forum, where there's been talk about the future of the European Union. We spoke earlier this evening. Ray

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Geert Wilders, leader of the Eurosceptic Freedom Party, was among the first to congratulate his colleagues across the North Sea for securing their Independence Day. 基尔特威尔德斯是荷兰疑欧派自由党的领袖,他是第一批为其英国

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BRUSSELS, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) said on Monday it welcomes Eurotunnel's announcement to cut charges imposed on rail freight operators by up to 50 percent. I welcome Eurotunnel's announcement because it should pave the way for m

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VIENNA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Austrian Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and Vice-President of the European Parliament Othmar Karas called for a convention to discuss the future of the European Union (EU) Monday. The convention

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What were they thinking? It is extraordinary to read a succession of official reports arguing, rightly, that a vote to leave the EU would impose long-term damage and a short-term shock. What sort of government would run such a risk, particularly when

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委内瑞拉抨击欧盟的批评毫无根据 CARACAS, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government on Wednesday rejected recent criticism from European Union (EU) spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic as unfounded foreign interference in its domestic affairs

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The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it《最底层的 10 亿人:为什么最贫穷的国家走向失败,我们能为此做些什么》 About 80 per cent of the population of developing countries live

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European environmental ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss ways to significantly cut greenhouse-gas emissions - without hurting economies struggling with the current financial crisis. 欧盟各国环境部长在卢森堡开会,商讨采取什么措

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European Union foreign ministers expressed support Wednesday for sending monitors to supervise a cease-fire in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia, which Georgia claims is already being violated by Russia. 欧盟外长星期三表示支持派

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This would not be a problem if there were several big search engines. 如果有几个大型的搜索引擎这就不成问题了。 But Google's market share in most European countries exceeds 90%. 但谷歌在大多数欧洲国家的市场份额超过了

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Be careful if you're planning to take any 'selfies' in front of iconic monuments this summer. A new EU law banning the posting of photographs on social media sites containing public buildings could be in force by next week. 今夏如果您想在地标建

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

If you walk down Piccadilly in London you will see one European flag on the Maltese High Commission whereas on the continent it seems to be everywhere: at prime ministerial press conferences, on public buildings and on car number plates. 沿着伦敦皮

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SARAJEVO, April 14 (Xinhua) -- EUFOR is to hold military exercise in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) between April 15 and April 28, local media reported on Sunday. The exercise, codenamed quick response 2013, is aimed to demonstrate the ability of EUFOR

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BRUSSELS, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The European Union's education commissioner Androulla Vassiliou on Tuesday stressed that investment in education pay off in the long run and that member states must bear it in mind when allocating public budgets. Cutting

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The European Union budget 欧盟预算 The gourmands of Brussels 布鲁塞尔的贪食者 The EU may be spending less, but the cost of running it is rising 欧盟也许会削减开支,但是运营成本在增加 THE European Union is on the verge o

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Eurosceptics 疑欧派 A cunning plan 狡猾的计划 Eurosceptics adopt an old Marxist technique 欧洲怀疑论者采用了古老的马克思主义技术 BRUSSELS-BASHING is never out of season in Britain, but the past few weeks have been unusually

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