Berlin's left-leaning Tageszeitung called Tuesday on the European Union for a unified stand on the Bulgarian medics' case in Libya and did not hesitate to say it seems like the world is waiting for a miracle to happen.

"It has been eight years already since the life of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor is a toy in the hands of the Libyan regime," the Tageszeitung wrote. "It is obvious that the world is still waiting for a miracle to happen and see Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi releasing the Bulgarian nurses."

The article questions the efforts that the European Union puts into the release of the five nurses and claims that totalitarian regimes, like that in Libya, react only when put under massive pressure.

"It is only with a unified stand on the issue that Europe can bring this madness to an end," the Tageszeitung concludes.

The medics have been in detention since 1999, during which time more than 50 of the 426 infected children have died of AIDS.

The plight of the Bulgarian nurses, sentenced to death, have sparked an international outcry.

Major scientific reports by Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, and Vittorio Colizzi, an AIDS researcher at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy, proved beyond doubt that unhygienic medical practices fuelled the outbreak. As a result hundreds of children in a Libyan hospital contracted HIV in the late 1990s.

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