Turkey unhappy at EU talks delay
Turkey unhappy at EU talks delay
Turkey registers frustration as France prevents the EU opening membership talks with Ankara in a key area....
Turkish EU talks partially blocked by France
France has agreed to open up two further negotiations chapters of membership talks with Turkey, but has blocked negotiations in the area of economic and monetary integration, in a move aimed towards Nicolas Sarkozy's election promise of keeping Turkey out of the EU.
"The promises of parties for women
Political parties are being criticized for not having enough woman candidates; their manifestos are being examined. The Association of Women (Ka-Der) will announce their views after the manifestos of all parties are publicized."
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Battle heats up for climate-friendly car air-conditioning
Companies are competing to win automakers' support for rival air-conditioning technology as the European car industry prepares to take a key decision on what refrigerant to choose to replace climate-wrecking F-gases.Here is another test:
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DOSSIER: Has Angela Merkel saved Europe? | 26/06/2007
On June 30, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will give up the rotating presidency of the EU. When she assumed the position six months ago, she made her ambitions clear: reinvigorate the stalled European Constitution. After the agreement on a new treaty established this weekend, the European press considers her mission accomplished and that Europe is, as a result, back on track....
DOSSIER: The EU's new treaty | 25/06/2007
The EU is finally to have a new treaty. The heads of state and government of the 27 EU member states reached an agreement to this effect on June 23 in Brussels. After painstaking negotiations and a series of concessions on the part of Poland and Great Britain, the path is now free for most of the proposals contained in the failed EU constitution to be implemented by 2009.
Gordon Brown, Euro-sceptic prime minister?
All change in Her Majesty's kingdom: Scotsman Gordon Brown, 56, replaces Tony Blair at the head of government after ten years of hard loyal service
Christendom’s Muslim Midwife: Part II
The re-emergence of Islam as a European force and the spark this has given to efforts to re-Christianize the continent were made manifest last year in the wake of Pope Benedict’s controversial speech at Regensburg.........
Gordon Brown: an intellectual without an intelligentsia
Britain's chancellor will be invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government on 27 June 2007, and thus become Tony Blair's successor as prime minister. Anthony Barnett tracks his journey....
Europe’s next steps
The European Union must now raise its sights and learn to govern globalisation... FT Editorial:
Competition has served Europe well; Sarkozy has not
The European Union’s leaders have moved in the wrong direction by dropping the clause on competition...
Why nationalism works — and how capitalism might help by Mustafa Akyol
Ideologies of discontent and similar rhetoric by ELISABETH ÖZDALGA
