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Lise Nicoline Kleven Grevstad speech at IRL seminar "Equal opportunities in labour market"

13.12.2011 | MS Lise Nicoline Kleven Grevstad | English news

First I would like to say that I am very proud and pleased to be invited to present to you the gender equality situation in Norway. This has been and still is one of the most important issues in Norway. So thank you for the invitation. Read more »

Tunne Kelam MEP: On the massacre of Copts in Egypt

12.10.2011 | Tunne Kelam | English news

Christian Copts were routinely discriminated already under the Mubarak regime, with their churches and homes attacked and burnt by Muslim extremists. Last Sunday, October 9, dozens of Copts were killed as more than 100,000 of them, supported by groups of Moslem co-citizens, marched peacefully through the streets of Cairo, protesting against new attacks which targeted their churches.
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Laar discussed cyber protection with the Senate’s leader of homeland security

02.08.2011 | Mart Laar | English news

The Minister of Defence Mart Laar met Joe Lieberman, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs yesterday in Washington, talking mostly on cyber defence and the Cyber Defence League established in Estonia. Read more »