Romania - ratifies "missile shield" deployment / România - ratifică "scutul antiracheta" de implementare

Published on Dec 6, 2011 by Euronews

http://www.euronews.net/ Romania has ratified an agreement to host US missile interceptors on its soil, ahead of a NATO meeting in Brussels. The weapons will be deployed in 2015. While the US claims the anti-missile shield is to stop attacks from rogue states, Moscow opposes the programme saying they are effectively aimed at Russia.
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România a ratificat un acord pentru a găzdui interceptoare de rachete americane pe teritoriul său, înainte de o reuniune NATO de la Bruxelles. Armele vor fi implementate în 2015. În timp ce Statele Unite sustine ca scutul anti-rachetă este de a opri atacurile de la statele paria, Moscova se opune programului spunând că sunt efectiv vizează Rusia.

France - French consider abolishing prostitution. Sex workers in Paris have held protests / France - Français considèrent l'abolition de la prostitution. Les travailleuses du sexe à Paris ont organisé des manifestations

Published on Dec 6, 2011 by Euronews

http://www.euronews.net/ Sex workers in Paris have held protests after the French parliament said it would consider criminalising paying for sex in a bid to abolish prostitution.

Around 200,000 people are thought to be working in the country as prostitutes and trade unions claim the move will drive the practice underground and endanger women.
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Les travailleuses du sexe à Paris ont organisé des manifestations après que le parlement français a dit qu'il examinerait la criminalisation de payer pour du sexe dans une offre d'abolir la prostitution.

Environ 200.000 personnes sont considérées comme travaillant dans le pays en tant que prostituées et les syndicats prétendent le mouvement va conduire la pratique clandestine et mettre en danger les femmes.

South Africa - China could be Durban's climate change success story

Published on Dec 6, 2011 by Euronews

http://www.euronews.net/ The message coming from the climate change conference in Durban is that expectations of the outcome have to be practical.

As more delegates from around the world arrive at the summit in South Africa which began in late November, the UN Secretary General sounded pragmatic.

Ireland - tightens fiscal belt with further spending cuts - raise around 1.6 billion euros in taxes

Published on Dec 6, 2011 by Euronews

http://www.euronews.net/ Ireland's 4.5 million people are heading into tough economic times. Social welfare payments, health, education and public sector jobs are set to face the axe.

In Ireland's parliament the Irish Finance Minister, Michael Noonan has been outlining his plans to raise around 1.6 billion euros in taxes in a budget aimed at saving 3.8 billion euros. For the first time in a quarter of a century the prime minister addressed the nation on the severity of the situation.