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The mood in Helsinki towards enlargement has not changed. Your article entitled “German veto threat to Serbia's EU candidacy” (1-7 December) has an anonymous reference...

Eight national leaders say they are open to changing terms of Ireland's bail-out. Leaders of eight centre-right-led governments in the EU have backed calls for a...

European centre-right leaders meet in Finland's capital. The first in a series of meetings aimed at finalising reforms to economic governance in the eurozone will come...

Finn-ology begins at the European Commission's representation. The game of swings and roundabouts among Finnish diplomats with an interest in EU affairs is sometimes hard to...

Once it is properly up and running, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will face the enormous task of overseeing the registration of every chemical used in the European...

Serbian football fans travelled from Ikealand to Nokialand a fortnight ago to put up a banner with the legend “Kosovo is Serbian”. Although the European Football...

Never let it be said that the European Commission misses an opportunity to jump on a bandwagon. Its department for employment and social affairs proudly proclaimed this week...

Along with most western Europeans in the early 1990s, I thought that enlarging the European Union eastwards would happen at some time, that it would take a while and that...

This month has brought to an apparent end three years of arguing over the best way to regulate the thousands of chemicals used in Europe. Put simply, the deal adopted by...

The phrase ‘energy security' is one you are obliged to use if you are anyone in European politics. It is a fashion which has already done considerable damage and risks...

25-27 October: European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) hosts conference, Brussels. On the agenda: improving operational co-operation during investigations; 27 October:...

28 September: European Parliament plenary, Strasbourg. 29 September: Conference, Helsinki, on action against impunity in the external relations of the EU – the Western...

EU and Chinese leaders met in Helsinki on 9 September, against a backdrop of growing tensions on trade issues. Only a few days after the summit, the EU requested the...

Earlier in the summer, as Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker was intensifying his campaign for eurozone finance ministers to be given a bigger say in shaping the monetary...

The date of the European Union's next banking financial crisis simulation exercise should be brought forward from 2009, the date currently pencilled in, according to Mervyn...

8-9 September: Informal meeting of finance ministers, Helsinki, preceded by gathering of eurozone ministers. On the agenda: state of the global economy, stability of...

There were euphoric responses in European newspapers last week to the announcement of the figures for economic growth in the eurozone in the second quarter of 2006. Europe's...

The leaders of 38 Asian and European countries will meet in Helsinki on 10-11 September for the sixth biennial of the ASEM (Asia-Europe) summit. As well as discussing the...

Looking at Ilkka Laitinen's early career, one would assume he could handle anything thrown at him. The director of EU border agency Frontex started out as a border guard...

The Finnish presidency is planning a special meeting with Dalia Grybauskaiteú, the budget commissioner, in September to try to find a compromise after Helsinki proposed...