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Berlin's support for a transatlantic trade and investment partnership is based on a broader agenda The lingering euro debt crisis has underscored the two main stories of the...

German economy minister says Commission action could lead to a trade dispute. EU-China trade disputes raise fears of retaliation Germany's economy minister has...

Germany resisting moves to create a single resolution authority. European Union member states and the European Central Bank are divided over how to shore up Europe's fragile...

Positive views of the EU are at record lows, according to survey. Support for the European project is declining sharply across the European Union, and has nose-dived in...

Deputy secretary-general at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron Baffling as it may be to some, Franco-German co-operation remains indispensable to the European Union project....

Germany's finance minister reopens the debate on treaty change. What should we make of the pugilistic assertion by Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's finance minister, that...

A round-up of the international press on Thursday 16 May. The British papers consider the impact of a failed effort by Conservative Eurosceptics to pass a motion regretting...

Faith in the European Union is at an all-time low, and there are precious few signs of that changing. The damning label of “sick man” – Russian Tsar Nicholas I's...

Germany drops resistance to €7.3 billion in additional funding for 2013 budget. Finance ministers from the European Union's member states have approved €7.3...

A round-up of the international press on Monday, 13 May. The party toppled from power in Bulgaria in February has won snap elections. The centre-right GERB party of Boyko...

EU bank resolution authority needs a 'sold legal base', says German finance minister. Germany's finance minister has revived calls...

Negotiations scheduled to start on Monday and Ireland seeking agreement by the end of June. Negotiators from the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the...

A round-up of the international press on Wednesday, 8 May. The United States and Russia have united to call for an international conference to discuss the civil war in Syria....

Parliament will vote again on the emissions trading backloading proposal in July. Group leaders in the European Parliament's environment committee agreed this morning (7 May)...

A round-up of the international news on Monday, 6 May. Israel's bombings of two military targets in Damascus over the past two days have highlighted a perception that US...

Overseas territories agree to automatic exchange of information with France, Germany, Italy and Spain. George Osborne, the British finance minister, today announced that...

Enrico Letta needs to earn his place at the EU's top table. Italy has a government, at least for the moment. The rest of the European Union can take some comfort from the...

Restrictions to end for Romanians, Bulgarians. Freedom of movement and restrictions The situation in the UK Romania and Bulgaria The German...

The UK opened its labour market to citizens of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia  as soon as these former Communist...

Germany changes position, delivering a majority in support of the Commission's proposed ban on neonicotinoids. A majority of member states today (29 April) voted to approve a...