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The Lower House of Dutch Parliament today adopted a resolution of migrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania to leave the country after their employment contracts, reports the online edition of sofiaecho. com, referring to the Dutch media. According to the previously existing system, the citizens of Bulgaria and Romania have the right to work in the Netherlands until you have a work permit. Under Dutch law, after the expiry of their contracts, workers are entitled to receive unemployment benefits, provided by the government.

Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not intend to send a note of protest in Sofia on the occasion said the Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev at a press conference in Skopje yesterday that the leaders of OMO "Ilinden" do not want to register his party, because it will no longer center of attention. It said Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia Zoran Petrov, Macedonian Radio today.

The European Parliament adopted amendments to the Directive on working time. These are the maximum working week of 48 hours, remove the refuse (currently 15 countries use it, including Bulgaria) and inactive duty is considered as part of their working time. The European Parliament insists that any exceptions to the application of the maximum working week of 48 hours calculated over a period of one year. In 1993, Britain succeeded in turn to give (the so-called "opt-out"), which makes it possible to use the maximum working week of 48 hours if the employee agrees to work for longer time.

Slovenia vetoed the continuation of negotiations on Croatia's accession to the EU, because the dispute between the two countries in the Prevlaka. Nevertheless, Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor, Evroportalat forward. "Slovenia has reservations about seven negotiating chapters as documents presented by Croatia could prejudge the general definition of the border," Pahor said after a meeting with leaders of all parliamentary parties.

Montenegro put his candidacy for the European Union, told the newspaper "Le Figaro". Only two years after its independence from Yugoslavia, little Montenegro, which has only 650,000 inhabitants, has put his candidacy for EU membership to President Nicolas Sarkozy. "France is one of the major countries that fought in the European union.

Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" will not work today, three hours because of the strike, reports the AP. The airport will close its doors 12. From 00 to 15. 00. Air traffic controllers take part in the general strike announced by the largest trade union association in the Greek General Confederation of Workers. Olympic Airlines State erlayns »(Olympic Airlines) announced the cancellation of 30 flights. Under the new march of the mass strike as expected, in the center of Athens.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon set in 2009 the "year of climate change" in a speech marking the achievements of the United Nations in resolving the crisis in Darfur, Kosovo and Zimbabwe, reports AFP. During his last press conference this year, he said that climate change is one of the key challenges facing the world in the next year. "I am delighted that we managed to keep climate change at the forefront of the global agenda," he said, adding that "2009 will be the year of climate change." "We have no time to lose.

Police in Italy were able to capture 94 suspected gangsters and thus prevent their plans to revive the once mighty Cosa Nostra, the newspaper "Independent". More than a thousand police officers participated in a major operation carried out simultaneously in Palermo and other Sicilian cities more Tuesday. A few hours after the campaign of one of the bosses arrested Sicilian, Gaetano Lo Presti, was found strangled with his own belt in his cell.

Czech EU presidency, which begins in January 2009, aims at deepening the relations between the EU and Western Balkans, says Milena Vitsenova, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic into European institutions. In the process of enlargement of the EU Czech Presidency set is also intended to open two new chapters in the negotiations with Turkey on membership in the union, she said.

Illinois Supreme Court refused to dismiss the Governor of Rod Blagojevich, according to AP. Run against Blagojevich impeachment. The House of Representatives of Illinois unanimously approved the initiation of impeachment of Rod Blagojevich Governor of the State, is accused of trying to sell Obama's vacated seat in the Senate, S. W. Reuters. Initiation of an investigation of the case was approved by 113 votes. It will be led by a special committee composed of.