"EU reins in Sarkozy 'wise men' plan
EU stalemate on workers' rights
EU ministers fail to agree on whether to give new employment rights to agency workers.
EU reins in Sarkozy 'wise men' plan
A French initiative for a high-level committee to chart the European Union's future has been diluted by other states wary that Paris wants to limit the bloc's enlargement, excluding Turkey
Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century's Agenda
DGAP The 41-page report of an international conference held in Germany to explore a wide range of current transatlantic issues
Lessons Learned from European Defence Equipment Programmes ISS-EU This 41-page occasional paper investigates European armaments cooperation
Majority of Europeans 'interested' in science
A majority of Europeans, in particular in the EU 15, say that they are interested in scientific information and trust the media to explain scienfic issues in an accessible way. However, they would prefer scientists themselves to present their results, according to a new survey.
Welcome to the United States of EuroAmerica?
by David Francis
modified by FP
Relations between the United States and members of the European Union, by all accounts, have improved in recent years. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his recent speech to Congress, professed his outright "love" for America. Following Sarko's speech, President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had what was by most accounts an amicable meeting in Crawford. And relations with British PM Gordon Brown, while not as warm as those Bush had with former PM Tony Blair, are progressing.
Voices - European Union: A Clique of Multinationals or a Union of Peoples?
In a disturbing cartoon, security inspectors at a US entry point welcome a neatly dressed, probably European foreign passenger. Expeditiously they isolate him, efficiently fingerprint him and record his eyes, then medically they pore into his every orifice before photographing and x-raying him, after which, the dazed and confused tourist or businessman is pushed toward the exit under a sign reading: “Welcome to the USA.” The cartoon reminded me of arrival controls at the Soviet Sheremetovo Airport in Moscow during the dark night of Brezhnevism."....
DOSSIER: American intelligence report exonerates Iran | 05/12/2007
US intelligence agencies have presented a report according to which Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons programme in 2003. Will these revelations prompt Western nations to change their policy on Iran? Does this make the arguments in favour of constructing a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe redundant?
Redefining Transatlantic Relations
by Joerg Wolf
Casualties in Iraq have decreased a bit, European leaders speak more softly and Russia is a bit more assertive. Now some on the right feel uplifted and apparently assume that the kids in Europe are running to their daddy America.
Europe and the U.S: Confronting Global Challenges CEIP
SPIEGEL Interview With Sociologist Laurent Mucchielli: When Paris Suburbs Burn
A Teenager's Asylum Plea Ignites an EU Immigration Debate By: Sarah Wildman | The American Prospect
Immigrants and asylum-seekers have never felt comfortable in the European Union. But a Kosovar teenager's recent YouTube plea to let her stay in Austria is making Europeans rethink some of their immigration policies.
EUROPEAN ENERGY CONSUMERS LIKELY TO LOSE KAZAKHSTAN BATTLE TO "ORIENTAL BLOC"
COMMENT: Fewer English, better for England Foreigners improve an English soccer player's thinking. But with an Englishman managing the football team they revert to type, writes Simon Kuper
Consulting the public, Brussels style
Paying to be lobbied
Brown may miss signing of new EU treaty
Iran, the US and Europe: a nuclear complex, Jan De Pauw
The status and intentions of Iran's nuclear-energy plans are again at the top of the international agenda, and in a dramatic and unexpected way. The publication of the latest United States national-intelligence estimate (NIE) on 3 December 2007 - in the declassified digest released to the public - contained the striking assessment that Iran halted its nuclear-weapons programme in 2003 "in response to international pressure"; a judgment, moreover, backed with "high confidence".
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst : High Tensions In the Low Countries
Belgium and the Netherlands, two founding members of the European Union, are increasingly divided about what that project now means. The EU’s Reform Treaty is now the focus of that dispute, but its roots go deeper.
