Editorial Corrections
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Recent corrections
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04.05.2012
The story "Greek elections to usher in anti-bail-out parties" initially labelled Laos as a Marxist-Leninist party. This was corrected at 15.00hrs to say it is an ultra-nationalist one.
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03.05.2012
When published, the story "UK minister furious at EU bank talks" said translators left the finance ministers' meeting at midnight. In fact, they worked until 2am when the meeting ended. We corrected the story at 11.20.
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19.04.2012
A news ticker published on 18 April regarding the EU food safety agency has been corrected to say that the ethics issue concerned a former manager leaving to work for a bioethics company, not a former lobbyist being hired on the board.
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10.04.2012
The story "Ukraine steps up anti-opposition campaign after initialing EU pact" originally said the EU and Ukraine initialed the association treaty on 30 April. The correct date is 30 March. It also said the EU did not publish a statement, but the European Commission did put out a short press release.
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27.03.2012
When published, the article "Lukashenko put cucumbers in my trunk" referenced to the capital of Latvia as Tallinn, when it is in fact Riga.
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23.03.2012
The article "Ice Hockey finals in Belarus still on schedule" originally identified MEP Peter Stastny as Polish. In fact, he is from Slovakia.
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21.03.2012
The article "Nato commander: EU could not do Libya without US" originally described Nato's alliance ground surveillance system as its 'smart defence'. In fact, the system is only an example of Nato's 'smart defence'.
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06.03.2012
The article "EU commissioner blasts bilateral tax deals with Switzerland" was corrected to say that over €1 trillion are lost yearly due to tax evasion and fraud, not €3 trillion as it previously stated.
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21.02.2012
In the article "EU faces multiple trade wars defending green policies", the quote “a full-scale trade war against the EU merely for the sake of China’s aviation industry interests would be unwise" was attributed to climate change commissioner Connie Hedegaard, while it was in fact a quote from China Daily she had used on her Twitter feed.
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26.01.2012
An initial version of the article "Barroso launches Portuguese Capital of Culture against backdrop of budget cuts" listed Riga as one of the Capitals of Culture in 2009 and 2011. In fact Riga will be the European Capital of Culture in 2014.
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15.12.2011
The headline in "Morocco expels EU fishing boats" was corrected as the original one wrongly said MEPs had ordered the boats to leave.
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11.12.2011
An initial version of the article "New EU deal faces multiple referendum threat" wrongly stated that Traian Basescu is the Prime Minister of Romania. He is the country's President.
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09.12.2011
In the article "Serbia and Montenegro face setbacks on EU path", the headline was corrected after it wrongly stated Montenegro was not given EU candidate status.
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28.11.2011
In the article "EU steps back, as tensions build ahead of Congo elections", the number of electoral monitors on the ground has been corrected to 147 instead of 112.
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22.11.2011
The article "EU bans practice of chopping off shark fins" originally said the regulation would be applicable immediately. This was corrected to say that parliament and member states have to agree the new law first.
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17.11.2011
In the article "EU starting to lose patience with Moldova", Mihai Ghimpu was referred to as speaker of the Moldovan parliament. While he continues to be leader of the Liberal Party, he has not been speaker of parliament since December 2010.
