Nuclear Proliferation related content 

The EU's foreign and security policy often lacks an effective response. For most of the past decade, the European Union has provided leadership in efforts to stop Iran...

Business leaders are crucial to a united European policy towards Iran – and to preventing a disaster. The latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, due this...

High costs will doom nuclear power. Japan's nuclear crisis, and the 25th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, have incited heated discussions about the...

Finn named as head of situation centre. Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, is expected to announce three more managing directors of the European...

The new US approach creates better opportunities for an effective NATO-wide system of missile defence. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama will...

There is one overarching international issue that the US president probably has in his dispassionate sight. Reading Barack Obama's “Dreams from my father”, the US...

Expertise in nuclear technology is widely available and must be used. Danila Bochkarev is right to highlight the threat of proliferation (‘How to stop the nuclear...

A new nuclear order would make it easier to deal with the threat of proliferation. For that, the EU needs to join forces with the US and Russia. The ‘nuclear renaissance'...

Nuclear power is entering a new era shrouded in the passing era's lack of transparency. The European Commission is to shelve, yet again, plans for EU-wide nuclear safety...

Regulators warn against common EU standards. The European Commission will scale down its ambitions for EU-wide nuclear-safety rules when it publishes a draft directive next...

What Europeans need is a president who requires them to put their efforts where their mouths have been. Around the world, America's presidential election campaign has...

EU and India to explore collaboration on research; France and India settle bilateral business agreement. The EU and India are to explore the possibility of co-operation in...

Bilateral relations between the EU and India are mostly commercial, but things are changing. Diplomatic relations between India and the EU go back to 1963 and ministers from...

We should pay more attention to the US president's departure in part because of what will remain absolutely the same. There is a marvellous painting by Brueghel in the...

EU is still willing to provide Iran with incentives to discontinue its nuclear programme. EU states today agreed to impose new sanctions on Iranian banks believed...

The key judgments of this week's US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) take up barely two and a half pages but have fundamentally altered the parameters of the discussion...

Vladimir Putin's visit to Teheran raised many eyebrows. Above all, the Russian president's assurance of continued co-operation with Iran's nuclear programme – the country's...

Russia expects its relations with the EU to move forward in practical terms during the German presidency in the first half of 2006 and, besides, that the strategic prospects...

Nothing like a little nuclear test conducted by a madman to get the ink flowing early on a Monday.

Leaders of eight of the world's most powerful nations will meet in St Petersburg this weekend (15-17 July) to discuss proposals that would make nuclear energy available...