British army ends N Ireland ops
British army ends N Ireland ops
The British army's military operation in Northern Ireland draws to a close after 38 years....BDI warns on 'economic patriotism'
Germany's leading industry lobbyist warned Berlin not to follow France's lead in raising the state's influence on the economy as a response to the challenges of globalisation...Six states protest EU energy reform!
New Research Report: EU Reform: a new treaty or an old constitution? 60 pages; House of Commons Library, UK
Gilbert & George, Dream, 1984, black-and-white and hand-coloured photographs VIA
Time to move on - The EU after the German Presidency
In this July 2007 online dossier, Marco Overhaus and Hanns W. Maull of Deutsche-Aussenpolitik.de take ''a first systematic stock'' of Germany's EU Presidency - which ended on 31 June 2007 - by comparing the ''stated goals before the presidency'' with ''the actual results at the end of the term''....EU opens antitrust probe against E.ON and Gaz de France
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation against German energy giant E.ON and Gaz de France for allegedly agreeing to keep out of one another's home market, thereby thwarting competition and keeping prices artificially high.
UK puts sport back into schools
In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced a £100 million campaign to enable all children to practice five hours of sport every week in the hope of sparking renewed passion for physical activity among young people.
Does Europe have higher-tech health care than the US? Jonathan Cohn investigates...
"Walter McDougall: Will “Europe” Survive the 21st Century?
Source: Foreign Policy Research Institute (7-1-07)
[Walter McDougall is co-chair, with David Eisenhower, of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers and, with James Kurth, of FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West. He is also the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 1974 and is a veteran of the Vietnam War. His books include The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, which won a Pulitzer Prize; Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776; Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur; and Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828, the first volume of a trilogy on the history of the United States.]"
Reciprocity will not Secure Europe's Energy CER
How Europe tackles drink-driving
How different members of the European Union approach the problem of drinking and driving....
Commission warns mobile phone firms on roaming fees
Brussels raises temperature in Polish environment dispute...
Additional rights for energy consumers ''not Commission concern''
The Commission has suggested introducing a European Charter on the Rights of Energy Consumers. However, the German Centre for European Policy (CEP) states in a July 2007 paper that such a charter would undermine freedom of contract and disturb market development.Sex, drugs and Italian politics
After a married MP from the staunchly Catholic UDC party admits sleeping with prostitutes, a party official is proposing additional allowances for MP wives to come to Rome....‘Direct democracy is what separates us from the EU’
Switzerland’s stubborn neutrality and the fact that the country is considered a tax haven by many, these are the issues we want to discuss with the Swiss ambassador to the EU...
[Comment] Kosovo needs a conclusion, not a new beginning
Nicholas Sarkozy, overture in F-major, Patrice de Beer
Nicolas Sarkozy made a telling joke during one of his first foreign trips after his inauguration as France's president on 16 May 2007. Accompanied by his foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner and his minister for Europe, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, "Sarko" commented that he was the only one in the French delegation who was not from the left. The point can be made even sharper if it is recalled that two of the other four ministers in the foreign-affairs department come from the Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party / PS): Jean-Marie Bockel, in charge of cooperation with Africa, and ); Rama Yade, the young, glamorous, arch-Sarkozian, Senegalese-born woman, with responsiblity for human rights...
