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Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network

On its fourth General Assembly in Marseille, a new action plan was adopted, which saw the network multiplying its activities.


A.F.C. Euro Kickers

Current National Assembly president Pedro Miguel González Pinzón played for Euro Kickers in the early years of the league.

Argentine hemorrhagic fever

A vaccination plan is yet to be outlined, but the budget for 2007 allows for 390,000 doses, at AR$8 each (about US$2.6 or 2 at the time).

Bart le Blanc

Since 2003 Bart Le Blanc is a member of the Board of the Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP in the Netherlands, one of the largest pension funds in the world with a total asset base of euro 240 billion.

Central Bank of Montenegro

Montenegro has not issued its own currency since, as it has unilaterally adopted the Euro in 2002.

Chamalières

Chamalières is the place where the Banque de France located its printing works in 1923, which printed former French franc banknotes, and now prints Euro banknotes.

Charles Edward Barns

The parents of Charles Barns, Caleb Paul Barns/Barnes and Elizabeth Ann (Eddy) Barns, emigrated from New York State to Wisconsin Territory with the early Euro-American settlers, and Caleb Barns began practicing law.

Claudia Presăcan

In 2002, Presăcan, along with former teammates Corina Ungureanu and Lavinia Miloșovici, sparked controversy by posing naked in photographs for a Japanese photobook, LCC Gold ISBN 4-87279-118-5, and performing gymnastics routines topless for the Japanese DVDs Gold Bird and Euro Angels.

Community Exchange System

While money typically takes the form of a national currency such as dollar bills or euro coins, there have been other types of currencies ranging from simple IOU notes––in which one person declares a debt to a second person in a written document––to more sophisticated programs such as airline miles in which points are accumulated in a side-system as a result of purchases.

Controversies surrounding the Eurozone crisis

In September 2011, EU commissioner Joaquín Almunia shared this view, saying that expelling weaker countries from the euro was not an option: "Those who think that this hypothesis is possible just do not understand our process of integration".

Digital television in Russia

The total investments in the transition of terrestrial TV from analogue into digital format are expected to be 10 billion Euro during the period 2008-2015.

DX-Ball 2

Among other new features, the game also introduced two new Power-Ups: Mega Ball and Eight Ball; an easy-to-play Kid-Mode; and a euro-techno soundtrack by SideWinder, accompanying the addition of an integrated module player.

Eldar Mansurov

"Bayatılar" is the basis of the refrain of the 2009 Euro-dance "Stereo Love" by Romanian musicians Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina.

Ernesto Farías

In late July 2007, after a failed transfer to Deportivo Toluca F.C. for personal reasons, he signed a four-year contract for F.C. Porto, in a 4 million deal.

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

CEO of ERR Margus Allikmaa stated that "Personally I think cancelling Eurovision participation is the easiest option" in combat to the 28 million kroon (1.5 million) cut in spending.

Euro-Trash Girl

It was recorded live at the Metro Chicago, courtesy of WXRT (according to the liner notes on the back of the CD).

FC Universitatea Cluj

Other episodes of this rivalry are: in 2005, upset that Universitatea was relegated in Divizia C, "U" fans injured CFR's players at Sport Hotel of Cluj-Napoca; in 2007, a CFR supporter was killed by 15 Universitatea's ultras; in 2008, following a derby, CFR won and obtained its first league title and Universitatea relegated in Liga II, but this match was preceded by a corruption scandal, because Steaua Bucureşti's owner, Gigi Becali offered to "U" staff 1 milion euro for defeating CFR.

Florent Sinama Pongolle

On 4 May 2007, the Andalusia outfit confirmed he signed a permanent deal until 2011, for a fee of 4 million (£2.7 million).

Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria

On June 9, 2012, the Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos announced that Spain would request a loan of up to 100 billion euro for FROB, which would be used to recapitalise Spanish banks.

Fornaci di Barga

In the first years of the present century, with the advent of the euro, the factory, today called KME Group, started to produce coins.

Frédéric Artru

In March 2004, Chris Cantell and Frédéric Artru incorporate privately funded Sigex Ventures Euro Fund, SAS, a French investment vehicle for telecommunications technology ventures.

German Jazz Award

Named after Albert Mangelsdorff, the European jazz scene's best-known trombonist, it is endowed with 15.000 Euro by the GEMA foundation.

Great Wall Peri

The Great Wall Peri complies with the Euro-III emissions standard.

Hami Mandıralı

In 1998, he joined the German club Schalke 04 for DM7 million (3.5 million), but remained there for one year only.

International status and usage of the euro

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave his opinion in September 2007 that the euro could indeed replace the US dollar as the world's primary reserve currency.

Kim Christer Lauren

On 18 April 2012, the Kymenlaakso district court sentenced Lauren, 22 years old at the time, to three years and three months in prison, as well as having to pay a total sum of 17 thousand Euro to the girl and her family as compensation for the suffering he caused.

Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The Lithuanian representative in Baku will be awarded 15,000 litai (4,308).

Luis Arconada

During the ceremony following Spain's victory in Euro 2008, third-choice for the winners Andrés Palop wore Arconada's original Euro 84 final shirt, as he received the gold medal from Platini, now president of UEFA.

Luis Ureta Sáenz Peña

During the Argentine economic crisis in 2002, he convinced his parent company to invest 50 million Euros in their El Palomar plant to manufacture the Peugeot 307.

Nador railway stations

The construction of the 117 kilometer track to Taourirt cost 1.776 million dirham (approximately 180 million).

NuComm International

On August 27, 2007, Transcom WorldWide S.A., the European Customer Relationship Management and debt collections specialist, announced that it had acquired 100% of NuComm International, and a maximum cash consideration of $90 million CAD (63 million) will be paid in three installments.

Nycomed

The Nycomed company annually awards a prize totaling 20,000 Euro to four excellent junior scientists at the University of Konstanz.

Pledge drive

In order to appeal to such a largely Euro-American, middle-aged and affluent demographic (the so-called "Baby Boomers" and "Generation X"), PBS has resorted to specials such as self-help programs with speakers such as Suze Orman, nostalgic popular music concerts, and special versions of PBS' traditionally popular "how-to" programs.

Pouliadis Associates Corporation

Its main creditors are Alpha Bank, Cyprus Popular Bank, Eurobank EFG, and National Bank of Greece, and the company has now reached an agreement for a new 2 million euro loan from the banks to allow it to maintain its activities during its recent economic problems.

Raffaele Baldassarre

On 24 June 2013, the Dutch news blog GeenStijl posted a video in which Baldassarre was seen checking in at the European Parliament to claim a 304 euro daily expenses fee, leaving immediately afterwards.

Randy Caparoso

In 1988 Caparoso met Chef Roy Yamaguchi, who had previously forged a high profile career in Los Angeles, fusing Asian ingredients and seasonings of his childhood up with the classical, sauce oriented, French cuisine with which he was trained (at that time Yamaguchi described this approach to cooking as Euro-Asian, which he later changed to Hawaiian Fusion).

Ribeira da Cruz

Its a very poor village where the people live with less than one euro (nearly 100 escudos or one dollar) per day.

Sergey Morozov

Sergei Borisovich Morozov (born 1989), Russian footballer who played at the 2006 Euro U-17 tournament

Short squeeze

Short squeezes are more likely to occur in stocks with small market capitalization and small floats, although can involve large stocks and billions of dollars, as happened in October 2008 when a short squeeze temporarily drove the shares of Volkswagen on the Xetra DAX from 210.85 to over €1000 in less than two days, briefly making it the most valuable company in the world.

Silke Kraushaar-Pielach

The sled sold for 1160 and the proceeds went to her sledding club in Oberhof.

Spanish euro coins

In Avilés, Asturias, a Spanish one-euro coin was discovered with the image of Homer Simpson, a cartoon character from the show The Simpsons, in place of King Juan Carlos I.

The Exploding Meatball Sub

Barney indicates that a trip to Spain would cost a lot of "lira", which was the Italian currency (until they switched to the Euro a decade earlier).

Transcom WorldWide

NuComm had revenues of $122 million CAD (85 million) for the twelve months ended 31 July 2007.

U.D. Leiria

The architect who designed the stadium was Tomás Taveira, who also designed stadiums for Euro 2004 which include Beira Mar's Estádio Municipal de Aveiro and Sporting's Estádio José Alvalade.

United Kingdom and the euro

However, as national variation is a requisite of euro coins, it remains an option for the Royal Mint to incorporate the symbols of the Home Nations into its designs for the British national sides of euro coinage.

Vladimir Gabulov

He made his competitive debut in a Euro 2008 Qualifier against Macedonia and was sent off in the 69th minute for a foul on Goran Maznov.

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은? - Dalmaga dongjjok-euro gan ggadakeun?) (1989) is an award-winning South Korean film written, produced and directed by Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Willem Holleeder

In 1983, Holleeder was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment for his involvement in the kidnapping of Heineken president Freddy Heineken, for which 16 million euro ransom was collected.


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