Polls suggest ruling party's reduced majority in Greece
Polls suggest ruling party's reduced majority
Greece's New Democracy is poised to win a second term but with a slim overall majority in the 300-member parliament, say campaign workers citing unpublished opinion polls...Migrants are good, says Brussels
Europe's governments should see immigration as an "enrichment" not a threat says the EU's justice commissioner.
Serbia warns EU on Kosovo independence declaration
Meeting with EU policymakers in Brussels, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica made it clear that he would not accept a solution on Kosovo found outside the UN. The Western Balkan country is about to seal an agreement that brings it closer to the EU.
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MEPs call for 'unrestricted smoking ban' in Europe
The European Parliament's Committee on Health and the Environment has asked the Commission to propose, by 2008, an unrestricted smoking ban in all enclosed workplaces, including catering establishments, public buildings and transport in the EU.
The Microsoft appeal: The Commission was right
by Centre for European Reform
by Simon TilfordOn September 17th the European Union’s Court of First Appeal will rule on Microsoft’s long-awaited appeal against the record fine imposed on the company by the Commission in 2004 for abusing its dominant position in computer operating systems. The decision to fine Microsoft has prompted unprecedented criticism of EU competition policy and even accusations of anti-US bias. If the court upholds the Commission’s decision, demands for it to be stripped of its competence over competition law will no doubt intensify. The criticism of the Commission is without merit.
Greek Elections III: A Defeat for the Political
By Dimitris TsarouhasCitizenship: undefined
A modern, progressive EU member state divided by the linguistic, cultural and educational differences between the Estonians and the Russian minorityDOSSIER: Putin is preparing his succession | 13/09/2007
Six months away from the presidential elections, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has made a surprise change of prime minister following the resignation of Mikhaïl Fradkov's government on Wednesday, September 12th. While commentators were expecting the nomination of Sergueï Ivanov, vice-prime minister, who hitherto appeared to be the president's heir, it is Viktor Zoubkov, an unknown technocrat, who has been chosen. This decision has revived speculation concerning post-Putin Russia.
How to save Belgium
National votes to save a nation
Sarkozy’s Dakar Speech a critique
By Achille Mbembe
As the second, or third, or fourth 'scramble for Africa' gets into full swing [see http://www.metamute.org/en/node/10832] - Africans everywhere were confronted with one of the more bizarre events in recent history, as the African elite welcomed one of Europe's foremost racists (in Mbecki's words) 'as a citizen of Africa'.Sarkozy, keen to shore up any danger of the colonial power relations being reversible, offered: 'Between Senegal and France history has woven ties of a friendship that no one can undo' [full English translation of Sarkozy's speech here: http://dionysusstoned.amagama.com/blog/2007/09/09/sarkozys-dakar-speech/]. While Achille Mbembe, in a demolition of the historical bad conciousness this occasion represents, begs to differ, insisting that to continue to see Africa as a place without a past or a critical tradition is simply not, now nor ever, an option...
