"Exit polls place Berlusconi ahead
Exit polls place Berlusconi ahead
Veteran centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has a narrow lead in Italy's general election, exit polls suggest.Skepticism and Apathy as Italy Votes
EU elections 'not about Europe'
European elections should be seen as "second-order national elections," according to Professor Cees Van der Eijk of the University of Nottingham. He was speaking at an April conference on EU governance hosted by the European Commission's research directorate-general.Uffe Ellemann-Jensen: NATO’s Dangerous Signals
COPENHAGEN – Two dangerous signals were sent from NATO’s Bucharest summit. The first was that Russia has reestablished a “sphere of interest” in Europe, where countries are no longer allowed to pursue their own goals without Moscow accepting them. The other was that all NATO member states are free to blackmail their partners into supporting their own narrow goals.leader on European security
European security and RussiaThink pipes not rockets
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The European Union should worry about gas, not just missile defences
France’s interest in Afghanistan
The NATO summit has come to an end but the decisions made there, and also those that were not made, will be debated for a long time.Europe's executives gloomy on prospects
Leading industrialists have warned that the region will not escape the worst effects of the credit crunch, while many analysts have forecast low or negative growth for the whole yearEuropean confidence faces test
While most have stressed their belief in another record year of earnings, some European businesses are starting to think there is no way of avoiding the impact of a US recessionZapatero re-elected as Spanish economy falters
Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced a new government on Saturday after winning the confidence of the Spanish Parliament. But economic clouds are gathering fast over the new, female-dominated cabinet.EU to fund Mediterranean 'de-pollution'
Three months ahead of the launch of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's primed 'Union for the Mediterranean', the Commission has stepped on Paris's toes by presenting plans to finance pollution reduction in the Mediterranean Sea.German alarm for Sarkozy's Med Union plan
The idea of a Mediterranean Union has irritated the Germans, who have insisted that it be created in association with the European Union, British daily The Times wrote yesterday. The idea of60 ideas plus from Europe’s socialists and social democrats
Since October last year the Party of European Socialists (PES) has been running its own consultation– the PES is taking the writing of its manifesto for the 2009 European elections into an open debate and asking people what the priorities of Europe’s socialists and social democrats should be. Last year we launched an interactive website, Yourspace, and people are debating the PES manifesto at meetings all over Europe. Now we would like to pass a few of the suggestions made by our PES activists and bloggers to your consultation – since the future of Europe is also something which concerns socialists and social democrats very much.
Macedonia - what's in a name?
Dragan Klaic arrived in Skopje on the day that Greece vetoed Macedonia's bid to join NATO at the summit in Bucharest. He found a nation reeling from this unexpected slap in the face.EU needs a European Court of Refugees and Immigrants
EU must take action and show global leadership concerning the increasing problem of illegal immigration. The amount of people trying to cross the common EU-border, many of them refugees, is growing dramatically. Thousands of immigrants die each year in their attempt to make a new and better life in Europe. Those who manage to cross EU`s border, often face exploitation and lack of rights.
The EU needs further enlargements
The EU has come a long way since the initial six members founded the Coal and Steel Community in 1951. Since then, the EU has grown, not only in terms of members, but also in terms of substance.Membership or rather the prospect of membership, coupled with the very substance of EU cooperation, e.g. Justice and Home Affairs, the Single Market, and The Charter of Fundamental Rights, is one of the most powerful incitements for European states to form democratic societies, based on free markets and the rule of law. We have seen this urge for reform surface in candidate countries as a prelude to every single enlargement of the EU. Many observers have called enlargement the EU’s greatest success in foreign policy.
DOSSIER: Zapatero starts his second term | 14/04/2008
The Spanish Socialist José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on April 12th. He announced his cabinet which, for the first time in Spain, is made up of more women than men. The European press analyses his choices.
