RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an inde...
Spiegel Online | Gregor Peter Schmitz | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The council released a study on Monday called "Toward a Post-American Europe," based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 EU me...
AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
ROME — The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public sch...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy....
The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met ...
AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
LONDON — The Royal Bank of Scotland, Northern Rock, and Lloyds Banking Group are to sell off as many as 700 branches in the next few years in exchan...
guardian.co.uk | Ian Traynor in Brussels | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, is the subject of growing talk in Brussels, Paris, Berlin and Scandinavia that he is in line to become Europe's...
AFP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AFP) -- US regulators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a deal allowing Pfizer to buy pharmaceutical Wyeth, boosting the size of the worl...
Human Rights First | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
By Joelle Fiss Human RIghts First Pennoyer Fellow BRUSSELS, October 3, 2009 - "This is a day of celebration for Ireland and for Europe", chuckled for...
Times London | Philip Webster, David Charter, Roger Boyes and Charles Bremner | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Tony Blair is in line to be proclaimed Europe's first president within weeks if the Irish vote "yes" in today's referendum. ...
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
The European Commission has unveiled plans to allow more refugees from conflict zones and poor nations into European countries....
The Guardian | John Hooper in Rome | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, today threatened to block the workings of the European Union unless commissioners and their spokespeople we...
Reuters | Andrew Heavens | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Darfur region is no longer in a state of war and only has one rebel group capable of mounting limited military campaigns,...
Wall Street Journal | JOELLEN PERRY | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
A key gauge of Ireland's economic health isn't found in the island nation's business districts or trading floors, but on the football fields of the ru...
AP | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
BRUSSELS — The European Union is teaming up with music channel MTV to raise awareness among teens about the dangers of climate change. EU Envir...
DW-WORLD.DE | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
Milk and meat from the progeny of cloned animals could soon be hitting the shelves of European supermarkets. Some groups have been critical of such pr...
Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
The cacophony of voices here in the United States rises and the confusion continues. I will (and urge you to) stay away from all of these pundits, as much as possible and keep on trying to get more voices from in there.
Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
Basking in the glow of his spectacular election showing in last week's European Union (EU) vote, Geert Wilders, the head of the Dutch Freedom Party, t...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 07.15.2009 | World
The European left got clobbered in the recent elections for the European parliament. The vicious cycle continues -- the left offers little to voters, and the right keeps being elected.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
Pirates have been the scourge of the music and film industry for years, swapping and "stealing" songs and movies with no regard for the law. But now the pirates will be making the law.
Deborah Hobson | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
I know this motley crew of far right fantasists could never command support among the vast majority of right-thinking Britons.
The Guardian | Interviews by Stephen Moss and John Crace | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
Does the election of two BNP MEPs and the success of the far right elsewhere in Europe mean we are facing the threat of fascism? Or is this just a pro...
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
LONDON — A volatile mix of apathy, anger and economic uncertainty translated into gains for extreme-right parties in European parliamentary elec...
AP | CONSTANT BRAND and ROBERT WIELAARD | Posted 07.08.2009 | World
BRUSSELS — Conservatives scored victories in some of Europe's largest economies Sunday as voters punished left-leaning parties in European parli...
Financial Times | Tony Barber | Posted 07.08.2009 | World
European governments braced themselves for electoral embarrassment on Sunday as recession-hit voters turned to protest parties or failed to cast ballo...
AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 11.17.2009 | World