Full Coverage: Europe

29.04.2005 After the three-say negotiations between the representatives of 11 political parties and international community officials, held in the Vlasic mountain resort, agreement was reached on the reform of police force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

29.04.2005 Do you get frustrated when politicians refuse to take action for global justice or climate change until other countries agree as well - and of course nothing ever happens? Some election candidates have adopted the principle of Simultaneous Policy which commits them to work with other governments to overcome this impasse.

29.04.2005 The royal prerogative is a medieval procedure which allows the Prime Minister to exercise certain powers without reference to Parliamant - such as going to war on Iraq. Tony Blair must be wishing today that he had not dumped Labour policy to control use of the prerogative in 1994.

29.04.2005 This appeal by Greenpeace activists found guilty of trespass during an anti-war protest is one of a number of cases in which the defence attempted unsuccessfully to call the Attorney General as a witness. Now that the infamous opinion has been published, perhaps Lord Goldsmith will be summoned by judges to appear in court?

29.04.2005 The appeal process of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled that European sugar subsidies are illegal. In rare approval from fair trade campaigners, Oxfam says this decision is a milestone in the fight against the double standards of rich countries.

29.04.2005 Charities are occasionally regarded as fair game for tabloid journalists. In this case of a volunteer accused of child trafficking in Montenegro, it took 15 months before the Sunday Mirror lost the defamation claim and apologised.

29.04.2005 MOST was established in May 2002 as an organization for monitoring elections in Macedonia, and later it grew in the biggest group of citizens that observe elections as domestic monitors. Since than, MOST have monitored the Parliamentary Elections 2003, the additional Local Elections 2003, Presidential Elections 2004, the last Local Elections 2005, and the Referendum on the Territorial Map in 2004.

29.04.2005 All MOST activities are divided into three main programmes: Citizens’ Education, Open Institutions, and Accountability and Transparency. The projects are implemented through the central office located in Skopje, and 19 regional offices around the country.

29.04.2005 The Macedonian public recognizes MOST primarily by their election monitoring activities. The presence of the citizens at the polling stations as impartial and nonpartisan observers contributes towards increasing the transparency of the entire election process and increases the citizens’ confidence in the results.

29.04.2005 The Civic Association for Development of Democratic Institutions – MOST works towards the development of a stable, prosperous, more democratic Macedonia, through education and inclusion of the citizens in activities and projects designed to provide transparency, accessibility and responsibility of the institutions of the state to the real needs of the citizens.

28.04.2005 An ecocide committed on the last centuries old Slavonia oaks was discovered this week near Poganovci, in the Podgorac Municipality in the Osijek-Baranja District.

28.04.2005 On April 26, Microsoft Macedonia officially presented the Macedonian translation of Windows XP operating system. The users of licensed copy of Windows XP in Macedonia can download the Macedonian version, free-of-charge, from the official webiste of Microsoft Macedonia.

28.04.2005 Another new regional airport opens today near Doncaster. Whatever the politics of cheap flights, it is increasingly clear that the absence of VAT or fuel tax creates an absurd competitive advantage for aviation in an era of rising oil prices. The hasty upward revision of passenger projections is further evidence that this form of travel is out of control.

28.04.2005 Under proposals for UN reform, Japan and Germany are strong candidates for permanent seats on the Security Council. Aid promises may be one way to win valuable votes from African countries. Oxfam is unimpressed that poverty is becoming a political football.

28.04.2005 As a part of the former Yugoslavia, Serbia closely followed the global technology trends until the early 1990s. The start of the series of wars has contributed for Serbia to lose several steps, but the contact was not completely lost. Those years were key, in many aspects, to the future development of information technology: the internet appeared, PC technology managed to outweigh the other types of computers for personal use, GNU got the core for its operation system – Linux.

28.04.2005 Belarus has been condemned by the US as an "outpost of tyranny". Amnesty's investigations disclose more specific examples of repression, concluding that civil society is on the verge of enforced closure.

28.04.2005 On April 26, the SEE Media Organization – SEEMO called on the Government of Montenegro to respect the principle of independence of the media and to relieve the pressure on the media.

28.04.2005 With the application of visa regime, UNMIK has fallen into contradiction with the concept for Balkans in Europe and has heavily impinged the human rights for free movement.

28.04.2005 Edgar Bursic presented a unique project in Croatia – the Monteparadiso Hack Lab in Pula, at the Anarchist Book Fair in Zagreb. The Hack lab uses exclusively free software and offers free internet access to its users.

28.04.2005 Amila Akagic, Pretsedatelka na Asocijacijata na Linux korisnici, Linux Users Assotiation, ULK od Bosna i Hercegovina razgovarase so OneWorld SEE za promoviranjeto i koristenjeto na slobodniot softver i softverot so otvoren kod vo Bosna, i za aktivnostite na Asocijacijata na Linux korisnici.