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Protests in Hungary, Spanish debt worries and problems for the German president in our round-up of what's in the newspapers. Thousands of people protested in Budapest last...

A round-up of the stories making news around Europe. The debt row in the US has ended after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favour of a deal to prevent...

A leading conservative essayist has lost patience with Germany's chancellor. At a time when Germany is booming economically and the rest of Europe remains deflated, it is a...

The German chancellor's communications failure is inextricably linked to how she operates politically. Stepping out of the arrivals hall of Berlin's Tegel airport last week,...

The successes and setbacks of Norbert Röttgen's quest to reshape Germany's centre-right. At the age of 45, Germany's environment minister, Norbert Röttgen, is the...

French president offers jets and ships for relief effort French President Nicolas Sarkozy has written to the European Commission calling on the EU to launch a mission to...

Germany's finance minister appears to be dusting off his old idea of a core Europe. What are we to make of a leading European finance minister arguing that Europe needs to...

Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg's ascent to become Germany's finance minister at the age of 37. Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has all the hallmarks of a spoilt...

European Parliament describes efforts to reform lawbook as “merely a first step”.  

Alexander Weis, the new head of the European Defence Agency (EDA), always wanted to do international work. That is how he explains his decision to work for the German defence...

Günter Verheugen, the European commissioner for enterprise and industry, explained last weekend (24 March) in Die Welt (and in German) why he has been sticking up for...

The European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes has stuck to her guns. At her press conference last week on the results of the energy sector inquiry she declared that...

While the 2004 enlargement of the EU was imbued with the spirit of reuniting a continent divided by a century of war and ideology, this month's admission of Romania and...

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

Political turmoil in Hungary dominates European headlines this week, although some less dramatic but no less significant electoral upheaval in other countries also makes...

This week we offer something more than just a press review; we offer a review of the press reviews. Seems like just about every organisation under the European sun emails...

Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has suggested that the EU should cut a quarter off the cost for businesses of European regulation by 2009....

Let the finger-pointing begin. After the collapse of the Doha Round, the media observe the escalating blame game and consider the future of free trade.

What if they held a summit and nobody cared? That may be a bit harsh, but it's not too far off the mark as a description of press coverage of last week's European Council....

THE revelation that the city of Strasbourg has been bilking the European Parliament and thus all EU taxpayers, for millions of euro in excess rent for the assembly's...