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    Population:3,170,000Capital:Tirana; 367,000

    Area:28,748 square kilometers (11,100 square miles)

    Language:Albanian, Greek

    Religion:Muslim, Albanian Orthodox, Roman Catholic

    Currency:LekL

    ife Expectancy:74

    GDP per Capita:U.S. $4,400

    Literacy Percent:87

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    * Bujar Faik Nishani (born 29

    September 1966) has been Presidentof Albania since July 2012. At the timeof his election, Nishani was a memberof the Democratic Party of Albania, anMP, and the Minister of Interior.Constitutionally he had to resign allthree posts due to his election asPresident. The AlbanianParliament elected Nishani asPresident with a simple majority of 73votes out of 140, without consensusfrom the opposition.

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    Population:74,000

    Capital:Andorra la Vella; 21,000

    Area:468 square kilometers (181 square miles)

    Language:Catalan, French, Castilian (Spanish)

    Religion:Roman Catholic

    Currency:Euro

    GDP per Capita:U.S. $19,000Literacy Percent:100

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    * Antoni Mart Petit isan Andorranarchitect and politician[2]who has been the country's head ofgovernment since 11 May 2011,following a parliamentary election in2011. He is a member of theDemocrats for Andorra.

    * In the election, held on 3 April 2011,the Democrats for Andorra defeatedthe incumbent Social Democrats with

    an absolute majority makingMart Head of Government. Martfought on an anti-incometax platform.

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    Population:3,033,000

    Capital:Yerevan; 1,079,000

    Area:29,743 square kilometers (11,484square miles)

    Language:Armenian, Russian

    Religion:Armenian Apostolic

    Currency:Dram

    Life Expectancy:72GDP per Capita:U.S. $3,600

    Literacy Percent:99

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    * Serzh Sargsyan (born June 30, 1954) isthe third and current P resident ofArmenia. He won theFebruary 2008presidential electionwith the backing ofthe ruling Republican Party of Armenia, aparty in which he serves as chairman,and took office in April 2008.On February18, 2013, he was reelected as President.Both elections were disputed by theopposition, who claimed Sargsyan riggedthe elections

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    Population:8,151,000

    Capital:Vienna; 2,179,000Area:83,858 square kilometers (32,378square miles)

    Language:German

    Religion:Roman Catholic, Protestant

    Currency:Euro

    Life Expectancy:79GDP per Capita:U.S. $27,900

    Literacy Percent:98

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    * Heinz Fischer (born 9 October 1938) isthe President of Austria. He took officeon 8 July 2004 and was re-elected for asecond and last term on 25 April 2010.Fischer previously served as Minister ofScience from 1983 to 1987 and asPresident of the National Council ofAustria from 1990 to 2002. A member ofthe Social Democratic Party ofAustria (SP), he suspended his partymembership for the duration of hispresidency.

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    Population:8,388,000

    Capital:Baku; 1,816,000Area:86,600 square kilometers (33,436square miles

    )Language:Azerbaijani, Russian

    Religion:Muslim, Russian Orthodox

    Currency:Azerbaijani manat

    Life Expectancy:72GDP per Capita:U.S. $3,700

    Literacy Percent:97

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    * Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev (born 24 December1961) is thePresident of Azerbaijan, since 2003.He also functions as the Chairman of the NewAzerbaijan Partyand the head of the NationalOlympic Committee. Apart from his nativeAzerbaijani, he speaks English andRussian. Ilham Aliyev is the son of Heydar Aliyev,who was Azerbaijan's president from 1993-2003.

    * Ilham Aliyev's image remains largelycontroversial. He has been criticized for hisauthoritarian rule and often described as a

    dictator by analysts and politicalcommentators.[ At the same time, withininternal politics, he has never had serious rivalscapable of challenging his iron grip onAzerbaijani politics. It is widely expected thatAliyev will win the 2013 presidential elections.

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    Population:10,458,000

    Capital:Brussels; 998,000

    Area:30,528 square kilometers (11,787square miles)

    Language:Dutch, French, German

    Religion:Roman Catholic, Protestant

    Currency:Euro

    Life Expectancy:78GDP per Capita:U.S. $29,200

    Literacy Percent:98

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    * Elio Di Rupo French: ( born 18 July 1951) is

    a Belgiansocial-democratic politician. He hasbeen the Prime Minister of Belgium since 6December 2011 and heads the Di Rupo IGovernment. Di Rupo is the first francophone tohold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in1979, as well as the country's first socialistPrime Minister since Edmond Leburton leftoffice in 1974. He is also the first Belgian PrimeMinister of non-Walloon or non-Flemish descentas well as the only openly gay leader ofa European Union country.

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    Population:9,776,000

    Capital:Minsk; 1,705,000

    Area:207,595 square kilometers (80,153square miles)

    Language:Belarusian, Russian

    Religion:Eastern Othodox, RomanCatholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim

    Currency:Belarusian ruble

    Life Expectancy:69

    GDP per Capita:U.S. $8,700

    Literacy Percent:100

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    * Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (born 30 or 31August 1954) is President of Belarus, having assumedthe post on 20 July 1994. Before his career as apolitician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm and spent time withthe Soviet Border Troops and the Soviet Army. Whenhe first entered politics, he was seen as a championagainst corruption and was the only deputy to voteagainst the independence of Belarus from the SovietUnion.

    * Lukashenko's resistance to Western-backed "shocktherapy" during the post-Soviet transition has metgreat resistance from the U.S. and Europe. Belarus islabelled as 'Europe's last dictatorship' by much of theWest. Western governments accuse Lukashenko of anauthoritarian style of government. Lukashenkoresponds that his policies are the only alternative toinstability, and have spared Belarus from the povertyseen elsewhere in the former Soviet Union and frompowerful networks of organized crime known as the"Russian mafia

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    Population:3,840,000Capital:Sarajevo; 579,000

    Area:51,129 square kilometers (19,741square miles)

    Language:Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian

    Religion:Muslim, Orthodox, RomanCatholic

    Currency:Marka

    Life Expectancy:72GDP per Capita:U.S. $1,900

    Literacy Percent:97

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    * NebojaRadmanovi born October 1,1949, Graanica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a BosnianSerb politician.

    * He was elected on October 1, 2006 to a fouryear term as the Serb member of thetripartitepresidencyof Bosnia and Herzegovina andassumed office on November 6, 2006, as did theother two members elected at the sametime, Haris Silajdi and eljkoKomi. He wasreelected in 2010. The main reason Kosovo hasnot been recognized by Bosnia and Herzegovinais as a result of NebojaRadmanovi disputing

    Kosovo's independence. The Croat and Bosniakpresident's both support the recognition ofKosovo as a sovereign state. Most Westerncountries such as the United States and UnitedKingdom have recognized Kosovo's sovereignty.As a result of NebojaRadmanovi's and hisparties tactics, Bosnia and Herzegovina is havingmore issues in becoming a member of theEuropean Union. [1] He is a member ofthe Alliance of Independent Social Democrats.

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    Population:7,741,000

    Capital:Sofia; 1,076,000Area:110,994 square kilometers (42,855square miles)

    Language:Bulgarian

    Religion:Bulgarian Orthodox, Muslim

    Currency:Lev

    Life Expectancy:72

    GDP per Capita:U.S. $6,500

    Literacy Percent:92

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    * Rosen Asenov Plevneliev (born 14 May 1964) hasbeenPresident of Bulgaria since January 2012. Hewas the Minister of Regional Development andPublic Works from July 2009 to September 2011 aspart of the cabinet of Boyko Borisov. In October2011, Plevneliev was elected as President in a

    second round of voting; he was inaugurated on 18January 2012.

    * Plevneliev became Minister of Regional Developmentand Public Works under Prime Minister Borisov on 27July 2009.

    * As a result of the 2013 Bulgarian protests againstmonopoly and high electricity prices, theconservative government of Prime Minister BoykoBorisov tendered its resignation on 20 February

    2013. President Plevneliev, acting in accordancewith the constitution, offered a mandate to form anew government within the term of the currentParliament to GERB, BSP and DPS but after each ofthem declined, Plevneliev appointed a caretakergovernment on 13 March 2013, with Marin Raykov,the Bulgarian ambassador in Paris as Prime Ministerand Minister of Foreign Affairs.

    * Plevneliev advocates for closer relations between

    Bulgaria and the People's Republic of China.

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    Population:4,438,000Capital:Zagreb; 688,000

    Area:56,542 square kilometers (21,831square miles)

    Language:Croatian

    Religion:Roman Catholic, Orthodox

    Currency:KunaLife Expectancy:74

    GDP per Capita:U.S. $9,800

    Literacy Percent:99

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    * Ivo Josipovi ( born 28 August1957) is the thirdPresident of

    Croatia since 2010. Josipovientered politics as a member ofthe League of Communists ofCroatia (SKH), and played a key rolein the democratic transformation ofthis party as the author of thefirst statute of the SDP thatreplaced the SKH-SKJ. He left

    politics in 1994, but returned in2003 as an independent Member ofParliament. In addition to politics,Josipovi has also worked as auniversity professor, legal expert,musician and composer.

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    Population:1,072,000

    Capital:Nicosia; 233,000

    Area:9,251 square kilometers(3,572 square miles)

    Language:Greek, Turkish, English

    Religion:Greek Orthodox, Muslim

    Currency:euroLife Expectancy:78

    GDP per Capita:U.S. $9,700

    Literacy Percent:100

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    * Nicos Anastasiades (born 27 September 1946) isa Cypriotpolitician who has been President ofCyprus since 2013. Previously, he was leader of thecenter-right political party Democratic Rally (DISY).

    * Anastasiadis supported the Annan Plan for Cyprus, eventhough a majority (61%) of his party voted it down. Someof his intra-party opposition were even calling forAnastasiadis to step down. Many party cadres were up inarms over Anastasiadis' letter to the EuropeanParliament alleging that the government trampled onfree speech and human rights during the campaign. Thegovernment cited the National Television Council's datathat showed that the six parties supporting the "No" votegot as much air time as the two that supported the UNplan. The start of peace negotiations between NicosAnastasiades and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart willbegin in October 2013, attracting the interest ofinternational media and world leaders including BarackObama.

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    Population:10,212,000

    Capital:Prague; 1,170,000Area:78,866 square kilometers (30,450square miles)

    Language:Czech

    Religion:Roman Catholic, Protestant,atheist

    Currency:Czech koruna

    Life Expectancy:75GDP per Capita:U.S. $15,300

    Literacy Percent:100

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    * MiloZeman ( born 28 September 1944) is the thirdand currentPresident of the Czech Republic, inoffice since 8 March 2013. Previously he served asthe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social DemocraticParty during the 1990s, he transformed it into oneof the country's major parties. He was Chairman of

    the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of theCzech parliament, from 1996 to 1998.

    * In January 2013, Zeman was elected as President ofthe Czech Republic. He is the first directly electedPresident in Czech history; both of hispredecessors, Vclav Havel and Vclav Klaus, wereelected by the Parliament.

    * In 1990, Zeman became a member of the Chamberof the Nations of the Czechoslovak Federal

    Assembly. In 1992, he successfully ran for theChamber of the People of the Federal Assembly,already as a member of the Czech Social DemocraticParty(SSD), which he joined the same year. In1993, he was elected the chairman of the party, andin the following years he transformed it into one ofthe country's major parties

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    Population:5,418,000

    Capital:Copenhagen; 1,066,000

    Area:43,098 square kilometers(16,640 square miles)

    Language:Danish, Faroese,Greenlandic

    Religion:EvangelicalLutheranCurrency:Danish krone

    Life Expectancy:77GDP per Capita:U.S. $28,900

    Literacy Percent:100

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    * Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 14 December 1966)is a Danishpolitician who has been the Prime

    Minister of Denmark since 3 October 2011 andthe Leader of the Social Democrats since 12 April2005. She is the first woman to hold either post.

    * Thorning-Schmidt served as a Member of theEuropean Parliament for Denmark from 1999 to 2004before being elected to the Danish Parliament in2005. She was elected to replace MogensLykketoftas Leader of the Social Democrats afterthe 2005 parliamentary election, leading her partythrough the2007 parliamentary election, which waswon by the centre-right alliance, and the 2011parliamentary election, after which she wasappointed Prime Minister by Queen Margrethe II.Thorning-Schmidt holds degrees in political sciencefrom the University of Copenhagen and the Collegeof Europe.

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    Population:1,345,000

    Capital:Tallinn; 391,000

    Area:45,227 square kilometers (17,462square miles

    )Language:Estonian, Russian

    Religion:Evangelical Lutheran, RussianOrthodox, Eastern Orthodox

    Currency:Estonian kroonLife Expectancy:71

    GDP per Capita:U.S. $11,000

    Literacy Percent:100

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    * Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born 26 December1953) is thefourth President of Estonia,in office since 2006. Ilves worked as

    a diplomat and journalist, and he wasthe leader of the Social DemocraticParty in the 1990s. He served in thegovernment as Minister of Foreign Affairsfrom 1996 to 1998 and again from 1999to 2002. Later, he was a Member of theEuropean Parliament from 2004 to 2006.He was elected as President of Estonia byan electoral college on 23 September2006 and his term as President began on9 October 2006.

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    Population:5,246,000Capital:Helsinki; 1,075,000

    Area:338,145 square kilometers (130,558square miles)

    Language:Finnish, Swedish

    Religion:Evangelical Lutheran

    Currency:Euro

    Life Expectancy:78GDP per Capita:U.S. $25,800

    Literacy Percent:100

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    * Sauli Vinm Niinist (born 24 August 1948) is

    the 12th and current President of Finland, inoffice since 2012.* A lawyer by education, Niinist wasMinister of

    Finance from 1996 to 2003 and the NationalCoalition Party candidate in the 2006presidential election. He served asthe Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from2007 to 2011 and has been the HonoraryPresident of the European People's Party(EPP)since 2002.

    *Niinist was the National Coalition Partycandidate in the 2012 presidential election,beatingPekka Haavisto of the GreenLeague with 62.6% of the vote in the decisivesecond round. Niinist assumed office on 1March 2012, and is the first president from theNational Coalition Party since Juho KustiPaasikivi, who left office in 1956.

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    Population:60,742,000Capital:Paris;9,854,000Area:543,965 squarekilometers (210,026 square miles)

    Language:French

    Religion:Roman Catholic

    Currency:Euro

    Life Expectancy:79GDP per Capita:U.S. $26,000

    Literacy Percent:99

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    * Franois Grard Georges NicolasHollande (born 12 August 1954) is aFrench politician who is thecurrent President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra. He was previouslythe First Secretary of theFrench SocialistParty from 1997 to 2008, and a Deputy oftheNational Assembly ofFrance for Corrze's 1stConstituency from 1988 to 1993 andagain from 1997 to 2012. He also servedas the Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008and the President of theGeneral Council

    of Corrze from 2008 to 2012. Hewas elected President of France on 6 May2012, defeating incumbent NicolasSarkozy, and was sworn in on 15May.[1] He is the second Socialist Partypresident of the French Fifth Republic,after Franois Mitterrand.

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