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Committee highlights US president's efforts to promote nuclear disarmament. US President Barack Obama was today awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring...

The US president has strong support on this side of the Atlantic but transatlantic relations also need new projects and institutions. It is time to worry about Barack...

Thanks to Barack Obama, Europeans may have re-gained an affection for the US, but the feeling is not yet mutual. US President Barack Obama is sinking in domestic American...

George W. Bush may be gone, but issues such as the economy and Afghanistan may mean the Obama era is less meaningful than expected. Just how much of a bounce has Barack...

A battle that require an 'Americanisation' of Europe in political terms and a 'Europeanisation' of America in social terms. Since the arrival of President Barack Obama...

Unfortunately, it may wear itself out too soon. In the past two months, I have been in eight American cities – Boston, New York, Washington, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles,...

US president tours former Nazi concentration camp during German visit. Barack Obama is on his second visit to Europe since becoming US president in January. Obama arrived in...

Many Europeans were thrilled with the election of Barack Obama but there is sure to be tension, writes Keith Koffler. US President Barack Obama took office promising a...

Please visit us. Signed, Everyman EU leaders great and small expect much from US President Barack Obama – the most powerful man in the world since Tuesday (20 January –...

If Barack Obama is serious about change, he will need the EU. It is the morning after the night before: President George W. Bush is no more, long live President Barack...

Barack Obama, the new US president, should move quickly to improve transatlantic relations, but the EU needs to show its commitment, too. Barack Obama will next week (20...

Barack Obama expected to close camp; innocent detainees unable to return home. Foreign ministers will on 26 January discuss how to respond to an expected request from Barack...

There are five reasons not to expect too much of Barack Obama. Will the year 2009 and the beginning of Barack Obama's presidency mark the beginning of a new era in...

His ‘audacity of hope' will not suffice, but the US president-elect has other cards that may prove vital: popular support and an understanding of the challenges we face....

Germany's ‘answer' to Obama has just one problem: he's a Green. ‘“Could it happen here? Where is Europe's Obama?” asks a headline on the website of Cem Ozdemir...

Secrecy and a big cast make predicting Barack Obama's team a complex parlour-game. Though only freshly minted as president-elect, Barack Obama has faced the challenge of...

Rather than place demands on Obama, we should, above all, place demands on ourselves. From a cast of outsize characters, Americans have finally chosen one whose complexity...

European Commission president welcomes Barack Obama's election as a turning point. The president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, has...

The general manager of the European Business Summit dreams of snagging Barack Obama. Pierre Hermant, 31, has a talent for networking. As a university student in Brussels, he...

American presidential elections provide a near-perfect test to understand the difference between European and Asian worldviews. Could Europe be a Democratic “blue...