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Negotiations on measures to satisfy EU and IMF on second bail-out to resume Monday. Talks in Greece aimed at securing a new €130 billion international bail-out for the...

Concern about migration. The prospect of an EU-India free-trade agreement has raised fears, especially in the United Kingdom, of uncontrollable labour migration. Alarm is...

Restriction on exports of raw materials in breach of global trade rules The World Trade Organization's (WTO) appeals body today confirmed an earlier ruling that...

Lagarde identifies the eurozone as biggest threat. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is involved in a deep, complex and potentially corrosive relationship with the...

France and UK hold up EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. France and the United Kingdom are blocking a deal on the European Union's accession to the...

Sweden and Finland may not be members of NATO, but the alliance should call on their help. Defending its European members used to be NATO's main task. Now it is all but...

The European Commission's objections are not the only pressure on Hungary's lawmakers. The outcry over the barrage of laws that Hungary passed before Christmas has focused on...

Europe's treatment of minorities endangers our core values. To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most thrilling period since the fall of...

Concern that oil ban would hit energy supply. The European Union's member states remain divided over how quickly a planned oil embargo against Iran should take effect, just...

The West and Iran are playing with fire. So turn to Brazil and Turkey for help. The West and Iran are playing a dangerous game. In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close...

Catherine Ashton and her colleagues need to show more understanding of how essential development is to security. Last week you reported on the storm of criticism facing the...

Jean-Claude Piris, the former head of the Council of Ministers' legal service, has ideas for Europe that will divide many, intrigue everyone and provoke debate. Those of us...

A valuable guide to the lies politicians tell, and why. “It is hard to hide a lie for a long period”, writes John Mearsheimer – and the good news is that his study of...

Ashton moves monthly meeting of foreign ministers to 23 January. National foreign ministers have agreed to adopt tougher sanctions against Iran on 23 January, one week...

EU later this month expected to agree on a ban on imports of Iranian oil. Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, has said that Italy will only agree to an embargo on imports of...

EU's foreign policy chief responds to criticism from foreign ministers of 12 member states. Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has been forced to...

The European External Action Service has had a difficult first 12 months, and hopes have faded that Catherine Ashton will settle into her role as EU foreign policy chief. The...

Can China be helped to abandon the tortured fiction that there is some kind of future for a reformed North Korea? In one sense, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il...

Cameron blocked plans for treaty change; Merkel ‘satisfied' with inter-governmental deal. Signing up or staying out Cameron's stance leaves UK...

Fisheries commissioner says she will raise MEPs' concerns with Morocco. Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, said today that she had...