Portal:Current events/Europe

• The European Space Agency sends the resupply spacecraft Jules Verne to the International Space Station.

• Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica resigns, dissolving a coalition too divided over the loss of Kosovo and corresponding governmental position towards EU to carry on joined governing. (AP) (The Daily Telegraph)

• Dmitry Medvedev is elected to succeed Vladimir Putin as President of Russia.

• The wind storm Emma kills four people in Austria, two people in Germany, and two people in the Czech Republic. (AFP)

• The European Union fines Microsoft €899 million for non-compliance with a 2003 antitrust ruling, the largest penalty the EU has ever imposed on a single company.

• Hungary agrees to join the South Stream gas pipeline project. (Reuters)

• Kosovo's parliament endorses a unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia and adopts a flag (pictured); response from the international community is mixed.

• The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, announces plans to nationalise the Northern Rock bank following credit problems caused by the subprime mortgage crisis.

• Václav Klaus is re-elected as the President of the Czech Republic.

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