ANKARA (AP) - A top Turkish legislator said that EU negotiations “may be tougher” after Germany’s Angela Merkel takes power, but cautioned that she will rule in a coalition government, which should reduce her ability to take any strong action to limit Turkey’s EU aspirations. “The fact that they have to share... will lead to the possibility that she will balance what she says,” Mehmet Dulger, head of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Associated Press.

NICOSIA (AFP) - Veteran Greek-Cypriot politician Glafkos Clerides was being treated for heart problems yesterday after being admitted to hospital with acute bronchitis, doctors said. The two-time president, who is 86, was in “stable condition,” although his condition worsened overnight when heartbeat irregularities were detected on a cardiograph, said Clerides’s physician Joseph Kassios. He told reporters a heart probe was scheduled for today, while cardiologist Pambis Nicolaides said Clerides had complained of chest pains.

Romanian authorities vowed yesterday to increase education about the Holocaust, as the country commemorated the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Gypsies during World War II. Marking Holocaust Memorial Day in Romania, the country’s first Holocaust institute was inaugurated in a recently renovated building in downtown Bucharest. “It is time the truth was known and Romanian society became aware of this event,” Deputy Culture Minister Virgil Nitulescu said. (AP)

Bosnia will take control of its air space in mid-2008 and collect about 13 million euros ($16 million) a year in fees, officials said yesterday. Neighboring Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro have helped control Bosnia’s air space since the end of the 1992-95 war as Bosnia did not have the necessary equipment. The government last week adopted a strategy for developing air traffic, which officials said would pave the way for talks on a 12-million-euro loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). (Reuters)

A Romanian businessman has bought Arnold Schwarzenegger’s early fitness equipment and plans to display it in a museum in western Romania, Schwarzenegger’s first trainer said yesterday. The 27 pieces of training equipment — some of them created and built by Schwarzenegger — will be shipped to Oravita, Kurt Marnul said. The buyer, Mihai Crainiceanu, plans to display the items in a museum to be opened in the western Romanian town of 14,800 people. (AP)