2005 in Europe

This article relates to the continent of Europe, except the France , the Belgium , the Suisse (etc), which has detailed articles.

January

Turkey: New currency in Turkey which divides by 1 million the facial value of the old currency.

Croatia: First turn of the presidential elections giving 49,03% of the voices to the outgoing president Stipe Mesic against 20,18% to the candidate of the conservative opposition, Jadranka Kosor. A second turn is necessary.
Spain: Fatal road accident in Spain implying a bus ensuring the connection Paris - Casablanca. The victims all are of the Morocco ains and the assessment is heavy: 5 died and 30 wounded out of the 37 occupants of the vehicle.

Portugal: A light earthquake (magnitude 4,4) shakes the South of Portugal. Light damage, not of victims.

Swiss: day of national mourning following the Earthquake of December 26th, 2004 announced by the new president, Samuel Schmid. It is the greatest tragedy which the country has known for more than 200 years.

Ukraine, presidential election: the Supreme court of Ukraine rejected the recourse of the former Prime Minister pro-Russian Viktor Ianoukovitch against its defeat to the “third” turn of the presidential election vis-a-vis the candidate pro-Westerner Viktor Iouchtchenko. reuters.fr

Italy: a collision between a train of passengers and a convoy of goods in Italy made at least thirteen died, declared Friday, January 7 the prefect Mario Morcone, directing firemen. “For the moment we know with certainty that there are thirteen died and we hope not of them to find others in parts of a coach which we did not succeed in yet exploring”, the person in charge declared who is on the spot of the accident.
Ireland: the chief of the police force of Northern Ireland showed, Friday January 7th, the Irish Republican Army (WILL GO) to be responsible for a burgling of more than 36 million Euro S, historical records, in an north-Irish bank the December 20th. This calling into question is denounced by the political arm of WILL GO, the Sinn Féin, “like a pretext to destroy the peace process”.

Europe: storms in the north of Europe make fourteen dead and two missings.
Italy: a violent head-on collision between a regional train and a convoy of goods made thirteen died and an about sixty casualties, including five low registers, Friday, January 7 at the semi-day, close to Bologna, on a portion of single-track line. More than two hundred rescuers of Italian civil protection worked all the day and a good part of the night for désincarcérer the victims and to release the dislocated carcasses of the two trains. lemonde.fr
the United Kingdom: BBC, the British public television channel, received forty five thousand letters and telephone calls, a level record, before the diffusion televised, Saturday, January 8 at the evening, of Jerry Springer - the Opera , a musical comedy, considered to be coarse and blasphématoire, inspired by the talk show of the famous American TV host. lemonde.fr

Croatia: the outgoing Croatian president, the centrist Stipe Mesic, was re-elected for a second mandate with the second turn. He obtained 70,85% of the voices, against 29,15% for its adverse, preserving the Jadranka Kosor. These results are for the moment only surveys at the exit of the ballot boxes, but considering the important variation, there is not any doubt that Stipe Mesic gained. Since her election with the head of the country, Stipe Mesic did everything to start the first negotiations aiming to the integration of Croatia within the EU
Spain: the country prepares to celebrate during all the year the four hundred years of the publication of Don Quichotte of Mancha , of the writer Miguel de Cervantes.

the United Kingdom. An original experimentation with London: a very whole street, Road Exhibition, in the district of Kensington, will be deprived, as test, of any indication: more fires, control panels, nor of pavements in this street open to the pedestrians (who will have priority) and to the motorists (of which speed is limited to 30 km/h). One thus hopes for responsabiliser the latter. (Source: Life of the Rail )

Ukraine: Viktor Iouchtchenko lends oath like new president of the Ukraine. This oath-taking puts an end to the presidential election of 2004. Its first official visit will be in Russia, the January 24th.
World, Climate: this weekend, of the snowstorms most of the Europe and the United States blocked. The airports of Geneva, New York, London and others remained blocked during long hours next Monday.

Ukraine, Russia: the Ukrainian president Viktor Iouchtchenko carried out his first visits abroad as a Head of State to Moscow near the Russian president Vladimir Poutine. It makes following the difficult outcome of the presidential election in Ukraine where Russia supported the former Prime Minister Viktor Ianoukovitch.
European Union, Software patent: at the time of the meeting of the Ministers for Agriculture and Fishing, the Council would like to make pass its European directive draft on the software patents in the list of the points of about a day which are not subjected to a discussion. (Source: FFII ).

Poland: celebration of the 60e birthday of the release of the death camp Nazi of Auschwitz - Birkenau, in the presence of 44 heads of state and government.
Russia, republic of Kabardino-Balkarie: after two days of intervention of the federal forces (related on the federal minister of the Interior and FSB), they took by storm a house of the town of Naltchik where eight armed rebels had cut off themselves. Seven of them were killed, of which their chief Mouslim Ataïev. The the Caucasus of North knows several of these operations against groups of Moslem rebels since the confrontations of Nazran (Ossétie of North, 90 dead) in June and the taken hostages of a school with Beslan (more than 350 dead).

the Vatican: Seized up, the pope Jean-Paul II (84 years) is hospitalized in urgency.

Iraq: Removal of Giuliana Sgrena, journalist Italy. Its kidnappers claim the withdrawal of the Italian troops in Iraq.

October 4th: 175 birthday of Belgium

Kazakhstan : Placing in successful orbit, to 23.000 km of altitude, from the Russian space center of Baïkonour (Kazakhstan), of the first satellite of the European project of navigation by satellite Galileo, which must make it possible Europe to be freed from American GPS, and should be operational in 2010.

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