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Are journeys abroad by delegations of MEPs worth the expense? The European Parliament's budgetary control committee is looking at ways to cut the costs of such travel and...

Talks to be held in Beijing and New Delhi. Talks in the coming days between the European Union's leadership and Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, and Wen Jiabao,...

Commission's director-general for climate says ETS aviation legislation could be changed if there is an international agreement on reducing emissions. Foreign airlines could...

The West can no longer dictate the agenda, but its decline is not irreversible. Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler's “The decline of the...

UN resolution calls for an end to violence and "Syrian-led transition". The EU has condemned Russia and China for vetoing a

India has been an important player in global climate talks, but lost its way in Durban last year. India has been considered a skilled negotiatior in international climate...

India's refusal to condemn the Syrian regime is the latest example of how it differs from the EU on major international questions.

Restriction on exports of raw materials in breach of global trade rules The World Trade Organization's (WTO) appeals body today confirmed an earlier ruling that...

Last year was a big year for US trade policy and 2012 could be more active still. In its first two years in office, the administration of US President Barack Obama was...

Political leaders seem to be structurally condemned to short-termism. Is democratic time too slow to respond to crises, and too short to plan for the long term?

EU policymakers are working on plans to persuade European students to enrol at Chinese universities. A recurrent topic in 2012 will be how to improve relations between the EU...

Can China be helped to abandon the tortured fiction that there is some kind of future for a reformed North Korea? In one sense, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il...

China has said what it wants in return for aid. Will China help to rescue the euro, or not? In August, Premier Wen Jiabao said that China was ready to assist Europe in its...

Connie Hedegaard's risk in Durban was redemption for the EU after its embarrassing failure at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. Connie Hedegaard, the European...

Climate change deal includes all major emitters. The world's largest economies have agreed on a roadmap towards a legally-binding deal by 2015 to to cut greenhouse-gas...

South Africa and Brazil are now prepared to sign up to a roadmap, but other major countries are holding out. The EU has made a final appeal to large economies to sign up to a...

Little prospect of a deal at Durban conference. The mood darkened at the  climate-change summit in Durban, South Africa, yesterday (7 December) as negotiators failed to...

Our latest version of capitalism has five major weak points. I am often asked if the recent global financial crisis marks the beginning of the end of modern capitalism. It...

Accepting a reduced global status requires a more confident US. At ‘Ground Zero' in lower Manhattan, two empty spaces will be filled by water cascades, memorialising in a...

European universities are forging links in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America as a way of attracting more students. The international MBA market is becoming increasingly...