11 years after its EU accession, Bulgaria takes over the presidency of the European Council
Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, has held talks in Bucharest with Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue/ Spains Senate approved the request of PM Mariano Rajoy to impose direct rule over secessionist Catalonia
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On December 22nd, 2014, 25 years since the fall of Communism in Romania, the new president of the country awarded a decoration to a victim of the Romanian Gulag.