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A few surprises in new year's honours in Britain and France. The New Year saw an honours list published in London recognising outstanding public service. Among the names of...

Germany's finance minister honoured for his role stabilising monetary union. The judges for the 2012 Charlemagne Prize have exhibited an unfashionable degree of confidence in...

European Parliament gives ‘freedom prize' to five activists of the Arab uprisings. Five activists involved in the Arab uprisings from Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria have...

Norway must continue to promote tolerance and openness if it is to successfully recover from the terrible attacks of a week ago. A week ago (Friday 22 July), I was off work...

British MEP jumps on bandwagon. Animal-lovers have been celebrating the news that the UK is to bring its rules on the movement of pets in line with the rest of the EU from...

Physicist member of the EESC dies, aged 71. Belatedly, Entre Nous hears that a light has gone out at the European Economic and Social Committee: a Lithuanian member, Zenonas...

Hollywood star checks out the plight of refugees in Malta and Italy. Italy and Malta received short shrift from other member states earlier this year when they asked for...

Coat of arms cannot be trademarked, judges say. Judges at the European Court of Justice yesterday ruled on an unusual trademark dispute. They decided that the Office for...

Strauss-Kahn denies the charges against him and says he will fight to clear his name. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),...

Commission preparing rules on property issues in marriages or civil unions. The European Commission is preparing rules to determine which national law should cover...

Turkish prime minister returns home to attend funeral of country's first Islamist prime minister. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's prime minister, has cancelled a visit to...

David Cameron gets his EVaward. Better late than never, Timothy Kirkhope, the leader of the UK Conservative MEPs, last week delivered to 10 Downing Street the EVaward that...

Former national leaders sign up for a lucrative job. Apart from being on Europe's political scrap-heap, what links Alfred Gusenbauer, a former chancellor of Austria, Gerhard...

Ashton looks in a strange place for a communications chief. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, is planning to recruit someone to reverse the largely negative...

Fourteen EU member states are set to adapt one common rule for divorce. Fourteen EU member states are expected to soon have common rules to determine which domestic law...

A very special honour for Commission official. The Emperor of Japan has conferred the Order of the Rising Sun (Gold Rays with Rosette) to Ruprecht Niepold, a German who...

What will happen to the Sled-dog World Championships? Further evidence that the European Union is losing out in the global competitiveness stakes comes from David Martin, a...

Finnish police hunt for man 'who looks like Barroso'. Finnish police this week issued a description of an alleged con-man, saying that he “looked like José Manuel...

How a British diplomat won over an ambassador from Iceland. The death last week of Donald Maitland, British ambassador to the EU between 1975 and 1979, robs us of the chance...

Miloševic's propoganda chief has found respectibility as a minister. Just back from Brussels, where he has been conferring with Cecilia Malmström, the European...