Econmist.com: "Spain's parliament rejected a proposal by the Basques to stage a referendum on their right to form a free state. The Basque premier said that he would hold the referendum, which has been approved by the Basque regional parliament, anyway. He also brought forward Basque elections to April 17th.
The Irish Republican Army delivered a blow to the Northern Ireland peace process by withdrawing an offer to decommission arms. The British government recently blamed the IRA for the province's biggest ever bank robbery.
The European Commission warned Croatia that it would not recommend the start of EU membership talks, scheduled in March, unless the Croatians handed over an indicted general to the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Slovenia became the third European Union member to ratify the draft EU constitution, after Lithuania and Hungary. At least nine members plan to hold referendums on the constitution, starting with Spain on February 20th.
Georgia's prime minister, Zurab Zhvania, was found dead in an apartment in Tbilisi, apparently poisoned by a leak from a gas heater."
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