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Is Euro 2008 maintaining the old order of international politics? Well, a prone defender may be more revealing. The abject French and unfancied Poles aside, the bigger...

Last month, 518 MEPs approved a report calling on the international football federation, FIFA, to scrap plans for a controversial rule on player quotas. They said the...

Nicolas Sarkozy emerged from the Lisbon summit (18-19 October) proclaiming the value of a “comité des sages” which is to reflect on the future of Europe. But some...

For all its worthy ideals, the European Union does precious little to excite its citizens. But football does, and so too does glamour. So it may prove to be a moment of...

Now that the World Cup is over, we can finally resist the primal urge to link football and politics - resurgent and exuberant Germany, proud and spiteful France, corrupt and...

Before the 2006 World Cup even began, the contest was caught up in political controversy. Twice in the last few weeks, a contingent of MEPs has tried to prevent first the...

The Austrian presidency is trying a sporting approach to improving relations with the long list of countries which fear that they may never get to join the EU. The Austrians...

Talk about nice work if you can get it! The Soccerlingua team spent a week in Portugal at the Euro 2004 football championships collecting material for their languages...

FRITS Bolkestein, the commissioner for the internal market, is on course for a clash with soccer fanatic Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, over a law on football...

EUROPE'S top football clubs hope to thrash out a summer deal with the world governing body FIFA to solve their row over international players. FIFA, whose headquarters is in...

DAVID Beckham's transfer to become the most recent of the Real Madrid ‘Galacticos' has also seen the England captain become the unlikely focus for a new European Union...

Ireland manager Mick McCarthy's decision last week to send home star player Roy Keane after a furious row between the pair has quickly developed into a political football....

Until now, Health Commissioner David Byrne couldn't claim to have the same influence over youngsters as his pop namesake, the ex-Talking Heads singer. But that could all be...

Assistants at the European Parliament are organising their own version of soccer's World Cup tournament. At least 20 teams, including an African XI, will be taking part in...

The Swedish presidency website scored with a neat April Fool inspired by photographs of German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder demonstrating his soccer skills at the...

SOME of the world's top footballers will gather in Spain this weekend to take part in an all-star tournament being staged to counter the problem of racism on Europe's...

THE importance of sport in the development of Europe's regions will come under the spotlight at a forum later this month attended by leading sports personalities. Former...

IT CANNOT be mere coincidence that things have only started to go awry at Ajax in the last year. Two years ago, the Amsterdam club's captain Danny Blind was raising the...