"Huge new strike paralyses France
Thousands of civil servants demonstrate in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday Nov. 20, 2007, for pay rise. Civil servants, from teachers to postal workers, began a mass walkout across France on Tuesday, the seventh day of a transport strike that has caused havoc on French rails. But the government said it would not cede on planned reforms. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Huge new strike paralyses France
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants hold a one-day walkout as France's transport strike enters a second week.
French strikes widen as civil servants walk out
Nationwide strikes hit French schools, train services, post offices and airports as a seven-day long transport strike combined with a walkout by public sector workers...
Two Sides of Mr. Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy will have to resolve the conflict between his enlightened trans-Atlantic overtures and his narrow protectionist vision for Europe
GDP 'outdated' as indicator of wellbeing
The Commission is working on a new tool to measure the wealth and wellbeing of countries beyond the traditional GDP. The new tool will aim to measure 'true' progress, taking environmental and social indicators into consideration.
'A Freeway To Europe'
Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Just a decade ago, tiny Croatia was in ruins. Now this star of the Balkans is on track to join the EU.
What's the matter with Greece?
by Mike Boyer
In response to my post last Friday on Fred Kaplan's anti-Americanism experiment over at Slate, a reader from Greece e-mailed me (all errors of syntax and grammar are original):
Aid cuts for big Europe farmers
The European Commission has proposed reforms which it hopes will streamline its enormous farm aid budget.
The environmental impact of e-business and ICT
Kosovo warned not to declare independence unilaterally
EU foreign ministers on Monday (19 November) sent out a warning to the newly elected Kosovo leader Hashim Thaci not to declare independence unilaterally next month.
The EU is bullying the world's poor to rush into a dubious deal on trade
Madeleine Bunting: Millions of jobs and thousands of companies in the developing world are under threat for the quick fix the WTO wants
DOSSIER: Alarming violence in European schools | 20/11/2007
These past few days, Germany has been in fear of becoming the theatre of a new shooting in a school because of alerts sounded in two different towns. A year ago, a schoolboy wounded 37 people in Emsdetten with a fire arm. More recently, a young man killed 9 people in a Finnish secondary school. Are Europe's youths in the grip of a new form of violence?
'Rent-an-American' helps shed old prejudices
Exchange students are dispatched to German high schools to help reverse its transformation from best friend of the US in Europe to a stronghold of anti-AmericanismWhat is This "Mystical Conception"
This is a guest blog post about the European Union written by Pamela, who monitors EU agricultural policy on behalf of U.S. agricultural interests and thereby became familiar with the political and philosophical underpinnings of the European Union. It would be great to have a debate about the issues raised by Pamela.
Paul Gauguin's Te Poipoi (The Morning) Sells For $39 Million at Sotheby's New York; Gauguin’s Te Poi Poi which sold for US$39.2 million to Hong Kong collector, Joseph Lau.
France and the Non to Europe
by Kiki
Certain Ideas of Europe has a post wondering if the Frenchwould vote non to the European Constitution if they had to do it over again. I think that not only would the French vote non , but they would do it by a stronger majority this time. There are two reasons for this increase of French Euroscepticism.
QUELLE EUROPE DEMAIN? 2/5 - JEAN-PIERRE CHEVENEMENT: «LE TRAITE DE LISBONNE CONSACRE L'ALIGNEMENT SUR LES ETATS-UNIS»
EUROPE & POLITIQUE ETRANGERE : UNE OCCASION LOUPEE DE PLUS DE L’OUVRIR…
by EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA
A force de ne pas prendre suffisamment position là où l’urgence de la situation l’impose, l’Europe n’a jamais autant bien correspondu à l’image de «géant de papier» que beaucoup se font d’elle. L’actualité internationale, au Pakistan, en Birmanie, en Géorgie ne manque pourtant pas d’occasions pour elle d’affirmer sa propre vision des relations internationales…David Miliband nobbled
David Miliband says ‘no’ to a European superpower
by James Rogers
A pro-European speech toned down
The strangeness of Belgium
Sacking mayors for speaking French
Would France really vote No again?
Mr Sarkozy says so
Consolidating Transatlantic Economic Hegemony
by Henning Meyer
The unique challenge of a Belgian junction
by Jon
Belgium is one of the last places where the priorité à droite rule still applies to traffic (more from Marko and Expatica) - i.e. when on any road you should give priority to traffic joining from the right. If you’re on a major thoroughfare and there’s a piddling side-road to your right then step on the brake and let that car in from the side road. That’s unless of course there’s a sign telling the driver on the side road to give way, but if you’re on the main road then how do you know what signs the other driver can see? So you better slow down anyway.
[Comment] The new EU president: standard bearer or shaker?
NGOs push for pan-European strategy on Roma
[Comment] Europe should be wary of France's reformist president
Denmark’s election: a shifting landscape, Ann-Christina L Knudsen
Denmark's voters gave a third term in office to their prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the election of 13 November 2007. As the centre-right premier of one of the best performing economies in Europe, the result may seem less than surprising. But Denmark is a more fluid and less predictable place than of old; elections have to be won amid a welter of competing arguments about where the country is going, and that can no longer be taken for granted. This makes its domestic politics more fractious and more interesting in ways that cannot always be read from the bare outlines of the result.
Free movement across Europe 18 years after fall of Berlin Wall
Weak America = Weakened Europe
Christoph Bertram , former head of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, writes that if European governments today distance themselves from America, they will both antagonize and further weaken the US. This will in turn undermine European foreign policy influence around the world.
