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A Chinese traditional music concert enchanted an audience of nearly 800 at the Romanian Athenaeum early this week, with melodies portraying the vibrant spirit of spring — high mountains, flowing waters, singing orioles and dancing swallows. The “2025 Happy Spring Festival” Chinese traditional music concert, performed by the Wenying Jiangnan Sizhu ensemble from Zhejiang Conservatory…
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A commemorative sheet of postage stamps celebrating the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, was unveiled on Tuesday at the China Cultural Center in Budapest, Hungary. The stamps were issued by the Hungarian Post in collaboration with the Chinese Embassy in Hungary, Hungary’s Ministry for National Economy, and the China Cultural…
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Climate scientists describe Greenland as an open refrigerator door for a warming world. Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet. Greenland is where climate change, scarce resources, tense geopolitics and new trade…
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The poorest US state has a higher GDP per capita than Europe’s top economies, except for Germany. Is this set to continue being the case in 2025? In the third quarter of 2024, Mississippi’s GDP per capita was €49,780, just €1,524 less than Germany’s at €51,304. Mississippi is followed by West Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama and…
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Taking purchasing power standard (PPS) into account, the gaps in average annual full-time salaries across the EU are narrower than in nominal terms, though significant differences persist. Euronews Business investigates. Have you ever wondered which countries pay the best in Europe? Or how your salary stacks up against others across the EU? With living costs…
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The UK joined several European countries in putting a hold on decisions for Syrian asylum applications on Monday. In recent months, the number of Syrians seeking refuge in the UK has risen sharply – as we reported here earlier. After the rapid fall of the Assad regime over the weekend, the Home Office said the move was…
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Russia supplied just over €29 billion ($31.2 billion) worth of energy to the EU last year, according to data from the bloc’s statistics office, Eurostat, as cited by the Russian business daily RBK. This figure represents a threefold drop compared with the previous year, when the EU purchased over €90 billion worth of Russian energy.…
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The UK and France are among the five countries globally that have made no progress over the past decade on youth rights and well-being, new data has revealed. European Youth Forum and the Social Progress Imperative’s collaborative Youth Progress Index has placed Europe as the second worst region – behind North America – citing “repeated…
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