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While the EU wants to change how it deals with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the fragile peace in the country is rapidly deteriorating. For close to 16 years, Bosnia and...

Paper says Eufor unable to deal with serious problems as number of troops set to drop to 1,200 in the autumn. The European Union's peacekeeping force in Bosnia and...

Court says Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in 1995. The deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica 16 years ago could change the way EU...

Jean-Luc Onkelinx on his role explaining the EU to the UN, and the UN to the EU. It might not have the day-to-day excitement of a peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara or...

The EU needs to weigh more carefully its decisions to engage in military operations. For the past year, European officials have debated if and how the EU should engage...

Klaus Welle shows off his peacemaking skills. The staff unions of the European Parliament had threatened to disrupt the European commissioners' hearings this week, in...

What the EU needs to do as the Lisbon treaty says it must, "promote peace". The pages of

Japan shares many of the EU's foreign defence and peacekeeping interests. But the US still holds sway in Japan's own backyard. Japan's governments have come and gone, but...

European politicians are being presented with stark practical questions about the role of soldiers in modern peace-keeping and about the relative status of soldiers and...

The killing of ten African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur on 29-30 September has given military planners and analysts pause to consider the dangers of a forthcoming EU...

Senior United Nations officials fear the EU's battle-groups scheme could reduce the number of soldiers European countries make available for UN peacekeeping operations....

Thank you for your informative and timely article by David Cronin, ‘Danger money? Why Louis Michel wants to arm Africa's peace corps' (European Voice, 10-16 March). Let us...

EU DIPLOMATS are examining how UN soldiers in Congo can be helped to cement a fragile peace following last week's fighting in the eastern city of Bukavu. However, sources...

THE European Union's ambitions to undertake peacekeeping operations in distant trouble spots are due to receive a boost next week as defence ministers approve the idea of...

THE European Union should substantially increase its contribution to the United Nations' global peacekeeping missions, the UN's deputy secretary-general has said. Speaking...

I read with some sadness that the Council of Ministers had agreed to set up the European Armaments Agency (European Voice 27 November-3 December) ahead of the conclusions of...

THE European Union often claims a special competence in ‘soft' power and nation-building activities. Its member states have undoubtedly taken the major share of the peace...