Migrant women in the EU labour force: Summary of findings
Executive summary for Migrant women in the European labour force, which examines migrant women’s participation in the European labor force.
EU Foreign Policy
"Eurostat yearbook 2008 ? Europe in figures
Europe split on how to restore Moscow ties
An EU policy document reveals a vigorous debate under way among member governments about how far, and how quickly, to restore relations with Moscow after Russia’s invasion of Georgia in August
"Key EU committee endorses Ashton
Key EU committee endorses Ashton
A key Brussels committee agrees to endorse Baroness Ashton as the UK’s nominee for EU trade commissioner.
"Climate debate postponed
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-7. In Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting Exhibition Opens at The Royal Collection
MAIN FOCUS: Climate debate postponed | 17/10/2008
The EU has postponed its climate debate until December, but despite the financial crisis is continuing to adhere to its emissions reduction targets. This has annoyed Poland and Italy in particular, which have repeatedly warned that climate protection must not overburden industry. The European press is at odds about what the EU summit has actually achieved for the climate and how the EU should now proceed.
"EU 'resolute' on climate targets
EU ‘resolute’ on climate targets
The EU will keep to its targets to tackle climate change despite worries about slowing economies, the French president says.
"Lisbon Treaty: Ireland is not the only problem
Lisbon Treaty: Ireland is not the only problem
Whilst there is a unanimous view among the Irish electorate that their ‘no’ vote on the Lisbon Treaty should be respected, it is "necessary to respect the fact that a substantial majority of member states have approved [the text]" too, argues Peadar ó Broin, a researcher at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), in a paper for the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN).
"Why does Beethoven's Ode to Joy upset some Euro MPs?
Why does Beethoven’s Ode to Joy upset some Euro MPs?
A decision to make the EU flag and motto more prominent and play the EU anthem more often angers some British Euro MPs.
" EU leaders to discuss bank crisis
EU leaders to discuss bank crisis
The leaders of Europe’s four largest economies are to discuss a response to the global financial crisis.
Europe: In it together
Governments moved quickly to rescue failing banks this week but there are still doubts in their ability to mount a co-ordinated response to a new phase in the financial crisis
"The search for financial alternatives
MAIN FOCUS: The search for financial alternatives | 01/10/2008
After the US House of Representatives’ unexpected rejection of a 700 billion dollar bailout plan, Europe is reappraising the balance of power on the international financial market. Until now Europe has been too reliant on American economic competence, commentators say. Talk now focuses on structural change, new regulatory systems and even a UK accession to the Eurozone.
"Credit crunch hits European banks……..
Credit crunch hits European banks
Top officials from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the EU held emergency meetings over the weekend to prevent bank and insurance giant Fortis from becoming the eurozone’s first major victim of the global financial crisis.
In defence of Anglo-Saxon capitalism
by Charles Grant
Those who never liked ‘Anglo-Saxon’ capitalism are feeling smug. Marxists, fans of ‘Rhineland’ capitalism and those who simply cannot stand American power are crowing. “The US will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system,” says Peer Steinbruck, Germany’s finance minister. “Self-regulation is finished, laisser faire is finished, the idea of an all powerful market which is always right is finished,” says France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy. The British academic (and sometime fan of Margaret Thatcher) John Gray proclaims that “in a change as far-reaching in its implications as the fall of the Soviet Union, an entire model of the government and the economy has collapsed.”
"EU agrees on key immigration pact
EU agrees on key immigration pact
EU ministers agree on a plan to curb illegal immigration while easing the rules for highly-skilled workers.
"The myth of ?Eurabia?
The myth of ‘Eurabia’ by MUHAMMAD ABDUL BARI
LONDON — There is a powerful narrative today about how many young European Muslims are susceptible to terrorism, how Islam leads to radicalization and how Muslims, because of their creed, choose to live in ghettos and therefore create swamps that breed terrorists.
Security guard the Lourdes Sanctuary as Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the Papamobile to celebrate Mass at La Prairie on September 14, 2008 where the pontiff is on a pilgrimage to the shrine where the faithful believe the Virgin Mary appeared to a peasant girl 150 years ago. The 81-year-old Benedict celebrated a Mass for more than 150,000 people on a field in the shadow of the sanctuary built over the cave where Bernadette Soubirous said the Madonna appeared and spoke to her 18 times in 1858.
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"Sorry, you?re just not European enough….
Sorry, you’re just not European enough
Better luck next time, Ukraine.
One of these days the EU powers that be are going to realise that when you’ve got countries torn between a European and non-European identity, to keep on telling them “sorry, you’re not European enough yet” is just going to drive them into the other camp.
How much longer are the likes of Ukraine and Turkey going to put up with these repeated, very public rejections before heading off to the waiting embrace of Moscow or non-secular Islamism?
Migration fears unjustified, OECD
Growing migration is putting strains on rich and poor economies alike, according to the OECD.
"Sarkozy, Solana in Russia to clarify Georgia ceasefire
A new rival for Merkel
Social Democrats shake things up
COALITION governments often make for interesting bedfellows. The union between Germany’s Christan Democrats, the party of Angela Merkel, and the Social Democrats (SPD) should be more entertaining to watch after a weekend shake-up of the latter in which the current foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, was chosen as the SPD’s candidate to face Mrs Merkel in national elections next year.
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Next Wednesday, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland will switch on the $6 billion Large Hadron Collider, a 27-kilometer particle accelerator that will create physical conditions that haven’t existed in the universe since the big bang. It all sounds totally awesome, unless you’re one of the very few people who think that the LHC will create a black hole that will expand to consume the planet. In World probably will not end next Wednesday
Sarkozy, Solana in Russia to clarify Georgia ceasefire
Accompanied by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Commission President José Manuel Barroso, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Moscow today (8 September) before heading to Tbilisi this evening to discuss the implementation of the peace plan he brokered at the outbreak of the Russia-Georgia conflict a month ago.