For much of the past 15 years, with funding from the European Union, the Italian volcanologist has struggled to focus the scientific community's attention on Nyiragongo.

过去十五年大部分时间里，在欧盟的资助下，这位意大利火山学家一直力争让科学界的注意力集中到尼拉贡戈火山。

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IF BULGARIA joins the European Union in three months 'time, which the European Commission will recommend next week, it will mark a rare turn in the 15-year retreat of the Cyrillic alphabet.

如果保加利亚将在3个月内加入欧盟，而且欧盟委员会还建议其下周就加盟，此举对被淡忘了长达15年之久的西里尔文字是一回难得的转折。

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European nations began to impose VATs in the late 1960s, and now the European Union requires all members to have a VAT of at least 15%.

欧洲国家在20世纪60年代后半期开始征收增值税，现在欧盟要求所有的成员国至少征收15%的增值税。

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Poland has had one of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union: 15.7%.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Poland eases rules to fill jobs

Shortly beforehand, the Europeans will have been talking up their supporting role in all this diplomacy, when the European Union's 15 met ten Asian counterparts for an Asia-Europe Meeting in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

ECONOMIST: A role for Europe in Korea

There is resentment among European leaders that Bush broke a pledge made last month to the 15 European Union leaders not to sabotage the Kyoto treaty by urging other countries to spurn the pact, the Washington Post reported.

CNN: U.N. bids to rescue climate deal