The Labour Party and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have suffered disastrous results in local elections in England and Wales. It looks like the end is near for Labour after over ten years in power. What consequences does this shift have for Europe as a whole?
By Karl Schlögel
Instead of two homogeneous European regions -- "the East" and "the West" -- there are now fragments, enclaves, and islands. From Baden-Baden to Bucharest, Majorca to Moscow, Karl Schlögel experiences Europe as a series of spaces both distinct and connected.
And the Real Winner is . . . Koštunica, Again!
SWP Comments 2008/C 10, April 2008, 5 pages
Serbs go to the polls on 11 May in the first general election since Kosovo declared independence on 17 February.
SWP Comments 2008/C 09, April 2008, 4 pages
Industries and private households are in theory able to freely choose their energy supplier following the entry into force of EU directives in 2004 and 2007, but many obstacles remain, with a single European energy market still far from reality. To make up for the shortcomings, the Commission has made further legislative proposals, including controversial plans to separate the production and distribution arms of large integrated energy firms such as France's EDF and Germany's E.ON.
A compromise deal is taking shape in Brussels that could see France and Germany win a six-year delay in opening their energy markets to full competition, according to Alejo Vidal-Quadras, one of the leading MEPs on the dossier.
More and more young people around the world are setting their feet on European soil, and seem to fit in well despite bureaucratic complications. We hear from Russian, African and Peruvian students living in Italy and France on their idea of Europe
Where will the ballot results place Serbia in its snap election on 11 May - isolation, towards the European Union or eventually towards Russia?
Russia is destabilising the breakaway region of Abkhazia because Moscow wants to divert Georgia from its NATO bid, Salome Samadashvili, the Georgian ambassador to NATO and the EU, told EurActiv in an interview.
The Commission is set to launch a new initiative today (6 May) aimed at increasing investments in its southern and eastern partner countries, the main focus of which will be on infrastructure projects in the energy, transport and environment sectors.
Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, said there are millions of Muslims
A year ago, few people would have bet that the European Union, still reeling from the trauma of the Constitutional Treaty's rejection in 2005, would be poised to ratify the new Reform Treaty, adopted in Lisbon last December.
