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Agreement in Durban on a roadmap to a future global treaty will see Europe continue a second period of binding emissions cuts, but Green groups say the deal is...

Catherine Ashton criticised for taking a trip to Australia. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has come in for criticism in Britain for visiting the...

The question for Israel and its friends to address the risks of recognition of a Palestinian state, and to calibrate their reaction accordingly. Shortly before Israeli Prime...

In Australia there is now a real sense that the perpetrators of racism shame not only themselves, but also their country. At a time when the horrific events in Norway remind...

Sometimes the stakes are too high for the value of transparency to be left to the judgement of WikiLeaks. As a British court weighs whether Julian Assange should be...

Agreements with Australia, Canada, US to be re-negotiated. The European Commission today (21 September) adopted a set of proposals on sharing passenger name record (PNR)...

Andrés Jonathan Drew finds lessons from the EU's emissions trading scheme – and from Voltaire – for US legislators. Voltaire famously stated that “the best can...

Committee concerned that Commission is delaying proposals for agreement on exchanging data. The European Parliament's civil liberties committee has voiced concern that...

Association says EU could jeopardise global deal but EU finance ministers want major reforms. One of Europe's largest professional associations of accountants has warned the...

The natural ties that bind the EU and Australia should be tightened; as it is, the two are merely accidental partners. Even today, Australia is still the closest thing to a...

US, Australia are making “remarkable” progress, but need to do more, author of seminal report says. Targets proposed by Australia and the United States to reduce their...

How EU studies are expanding in Australasia. Interest in the European Union appears to be growing in Australasia, helped in part by EU money. As Australia and New Zealand...

Deal spells the end of Australian champagne, port and claret. Australian wine producers will soon be banned from making wines labelled and marketed as champagne, port...

When you get history wrong, it can skew your own strategic choices. I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, Australia's former prime minister. He is...

Australia, a former Kyoto refusenik, has come in from the cold on climate change following a change in leadership.  The election of Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at...

Kilroy-Silk heads down and out to Australia's outback for more public trials and humiliations. British MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk was conspicuously absent from the European...

Is Alexander Downer just a failed Aussie politician, or can he help achieve peace in Cyprus? The patrician Australian Alexander Downer, a former foreign minister, will...

Agreement with Australia differs significantly from comparable deal with the US. The Council of Ministers has given its approval to an agreement on the sharing of...

The EU has signed an aviation agreement with the government of Australia to open up the possibility of greater competition and more flights on routes between the two...

For years, Ireland was the boom baby of Europe, the golden child of economic liberalism. It grew fat on low taxes, generous friends and good fortune. Up close, the Celtic...