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The US could learn some lessons about labour markets from Europe. Add another casualty to the list of victims of the Great Recession: the US conceit that its labour market...

The Netherlands' next permanent representative to the EU causes controvery. On 14 January the Dutch government announced that Pieter de Gooijer would be the Netherlands'...

Commission to hold talks with labour unions and business groups. The European Commission will open a second round of talks with labour unions, business groups and others in...

Conservatives win largest number of seats The UK was headed for a hung parliament this morning as it appeared that neither of the two biggest parties had managed to secure...

Leader of the UK Conservatives seeks support from the Liberal Democrats in bid to form new government. David Cameron, the leader of the UK Conservatives, has offered to make...

Voters appear to be in denial about the fact that the UK will have to take tough measures to rein in public spending for years to come. I don't mean to sound as though I am...

The state of the economy will be more of an issue after Germany's elections than during the campaign. German voters will vote on 27 September in the midst of a crisis that...

Local issues dominate Norwegian election and EU membership is kept off the agenda. What should you campaign on to win a general election in one of the world's richest...

FEB/Insead report wants public-private partnership to re-skill the EU's labour force The national governments of the EU should agree a European skills pact to ensure that...

The Dutch foreign minister enjoys the rough-and-tumble of his trade. “He is a rat, just like me,” a former political foe once said of the Dutch foreign minister. Maxime...

A Socialist MEP denying the electorate a meaningful vote? Never. Joseph Muscat (pictured), a 34-year-old MEP from Malta, has put himself forward for the leadership of the...

Reports hails Denmark's “flexicurity” system as the new yardstick for labour markets. A new survey suggests that Denmark is the best place in the world to conduct...

Some cities have a reputation that is hard to live down – or change. Judith Crosbie reports. The clothes of Bas Kosters undoubtedly stand out. Not every man would be...

The European Parliament will in the autumn produce a report on the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as several MEPs have warned that environmental groups must...

Part of the difficulty in negotiating the new reform treaty, according to senior European Commission officials, was that they had to take into account not just Tony Blair's...

Brussels, 8 May 1997DUTCH Prime Minister Wim Kok will spell out the three key questions about the EU's future which newly elected UK Premier Tony Blair will have to answer...

Environment experts won out over public health specialists when the two sides held a quiz night last week, not in some smoky pub but in the offices of the European Public...

At least two of the three countries which opened their labour markets to workers from the ten states that joined the EU in 2004 look likely to change their stance and impose...

I wish to take issue with Albena Azmanova's article 'Europe's angry conservatives turn nasty against liberalism' (13-19 April). When the author labels the opposition to the...