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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<img src="http://www.maltamedia.net/emAlbum/albums/Religion/90x100/divorce-x90.jpg" align=left hspace=5 vspace=5 alt="divorce"><b>Updated 1711CET</b><br />\nMalta has asked for an official opt-out clause with regards to an initiative seeking to introduce changes to divorce procedures in the European Union (EU). In this light Alternattiva Demokratika (AD) criticised the government for what it dubbed as the "obstruction of EU plans to harmonise divorce laws". <br />\n<br />\nThe proposal allows people to choose which legal jurisdiction they would come under, based on their nationalities or their residency, facilitating possibilities for divorce procedures in some cases. ';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<img src="http://www.maltamedia.net/emAlbum/albums/Economy/90x100/euro-maltacoatarms.gif" align=left hspace=5 vspace=5 alt="euro">Most probably exactly a year from today, Malta would be changing over to the Euro.  The final go ahead should come from Brussels in mid-2007.  <br />\n<br />\nMeanwhile, a poll has showed that the French are slowly turning against the euro. In fact, <i>EUobserver</i> reported that a majority of French people (52 percent) believe the switch to the euro five years ago was bad for their country.  ';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<img src="http://www.maltamedia.net/emAlbum/albums/Entertainment/90x100/fireworks3.gif " align=left hspace=5 vspace=5>As Europeans prepare to light up the skies with fireworks to celebrate the new year, the EU is set in 2007 to hammer out a bill boosting security measures for various pyrotechnic materials, including setting a minimum age for their use, <i>EU Observer </i> reported. <br />\n<br />\nThe European Commission estimates around 45,000 firework-related accidents take place in the EU every year - particularly during New Year\'s Eve celebrations. ';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '<img src="http://www.maltamedia.net/gallery/categories/Miscellaneous/thumbs/gay-logo-t.gif" align=left hspace=5 vspace=5> Residents of the 27 nations that make up the European Union are all over the board on gay acceptance, the latest Eurobarometer poll has found, <i>San Francisco Bay Times</i> reported. <br />\n<br />\n32 percent of those polled support same-sex adoption. Approval ranges from highs of 69 percent in the Netherlands, 51 percent in Sweden and 44 percent in Austria and Denmark to lows of 7 percent in Malta and Poland and 8 percent in Latvia and Romania.';
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