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Status of 3,000 opponents of Iranian regime to be checked before transfer or re-settlement. The EU has welcomed an agreement between the United Nations and the Iraqi...

The EU must do all it can to stop the brutality at Camp Ashraf. In May, I wrote that Iraq appeared to prefer to shed the blood of Iranian refugees than to seek a solution...

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States did lasting damage to the European Union. In the initial aftermath of the attacks, the European Union...

Some the challenges facing Libya and the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan for theinternational community. While NATO probably will not want to replicate its Libya...

Iraq appears to prefer to shed the blood of Iranian refugees than to seek a solution with the EU. The photographs and videos that circulated across the internet in the...

The five principles we should apply in considering the use of force. All the world hates a hypocrite. When states preach virtues they do not practice, or set lower hurdles...

Government denies group of MEPs access to Camp Ashraf, where security forces killed Iranian opposition supporters. The Iraqi government has denied a group of MEPs access to...

In Qaddafi, a nation with a seeming propensity to intervene – the French – has found the ideal villain. In 2003, France, under President Jacques Chirac, took the lead in...

The EU's delegation in Iraq has all the right qualities. Catherine Ashton announced on Friday (25 February) the appointment of Jana Hybášková, a Czech diplomat turned...

Jana Hybáškova, former MEP, to run Baghdad office. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has appointed Jana Hybáškova, a Czech career diplomat, as the new...

The EU stands to benefit if the UK and France can make defence deal work. Necessity is the mother of invention. Faced with stark constraints on public spending, David...

As its isolationist instincts decline, Turkey is trying to promote a policy of ‘zero problems' with its neighbours, while pushing for EU membership. Western observers...

With Ireland's ‘Yes' to the Lisbon treaty, speculation is mounting about who should be the permanent presidency of the European Council. Here is the case against Jan Peter...

Learning from the mistakes of the past can help us make progress in today's conflicts. In her book “The uses and abuses of history” the historian Margaret Macmillan...

Five countries sign Nabucco pipeline agreement. Leaders of the five countries through which the planned Nabucco gas pipeline would pass have signed a crucial treaty in...

Democracy promotion itself needs promoters – and, with judicious diplomacy, this year's presidents of the EU could do much to change mindsets and reduce Europe's...

NATO must strike a balance between calming Russia and bolstering the security of its countries in eastern Europe. Between the new US administration getting going and the...

EU states accept the idea of resettling 10,000 Iraqi refugees, but only Germany publicly commits itself to joining the list of eight current hosts. Human-rights...

The winner of next week's US presidential election will be tested on geopolitical and financial issues. Politics is unpredictable. Many pundits predicted that the current...

The past four years have seen a rapprochement between the EU and the US and considerable co-operation across the globe. The next US president will have to address many...