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Agreement could have impact on EU-level discussions on savings tax. The European Commission is to examine a bilateral agreement between the UK and Switzerland on the taxing...

Poland's presidency to focus on boosting e-commerce and dismantling online barriers to trade. Poland wants to use its forthcoming presidency of the European Union's Council...

A trip to Bratislava brings to the surface some of the principal undercurrents in central and eastern Europe. The Globsec security conference in Bratislava is carving out...

The West's best representative to the emerging north Africa does not come from western or southern Europe. For veterans of 1989, watching the crisis in north Africa is a...

Libya visa row highlights government weaknesses but problems have not led to talk of EU membership. Last week, Muammar Qaddafi, Libya's leader, declared holy war on...

When discussing Poland, almost everything is off limits and even a Polonophile is likely to cause offence. Poland is the largest and most successful of the eastern European...

57% support a ban that had been rejected by all the main political parties. In a stunning rebuke to their main political parties - all but one of which had rejected the...

A new way to get from Brussels to the Czech Republic. Over the past decade, the standard of Czech buses has improved out of all recognition. A 150-minute bus trip between...

Jacek Rostowski's eurozone ambitions. Jacek Rostowski, Poland's minister of finance, has long been one of the euro's most passionate enthusiasts. After devoting much of his...

Enlargement, Eastern Partnership and transatlanticism frame foreign-policy agenda.

Sharing of data and new security technologies are top priorites for the Czech presidency in the fight against crime. Ivan Langer, the Czech interior minister, will push EU...

After the election as prime minister two years ago of the Kaczynski Brother – the one without cat hairs on his suit – two million young Poles voted with their feet, going...

What makes the EU's new member states different? Old democracies have extremists nostalgic for their countries' unpleasant past (Jörg Haider), or shameless...

Asia has tigers, I mused, so eastern Europe has...lynxes! That was a handy way of illustrating an interesting bit of research by some Austrian economists (at the Vienna...

Foreign direct investment in the country between 1993 – when the country opened its doors to privately owned companies following the Velvet Revolution – and 2004 amounted...

In reference to the article ‘Commission warns accession countries – you must be ready' (European Voice, 6-12 November), ten new member states “must be fully prepared...

There is no doubt that enlargement is already bringing greater cultural understanding between East and West. But a recent circular from the Czech centre in Brussels proves...

EASTERN European businessmen trying to gauge when they are likely to enter the world's largest single market are keen observers of EU summits. But this weekend's gathering...

THE highly sensitive issue of foreigners' rights to own property in central and eastern Europe is set to be a key issue in the enlargement negotiations. The Czech Republic...

WHEN finance ministers of the eastern applicants for EU membership troop into Brussels' Justus Lipsius building next week, they will have as much to learn from each other as...