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Call for Prism to be on agenda of EU-US meeting and concern that revelations might damage trade talks. The European Commission has attempted to reassure MEPs that revelations...

A round-up of the international press on Tuesday, 11 June. The Turkish authorities' efforts to break up opposition demonstrations features prominently in many papers,...

Three oddities in the case of a US diplomat paraded as a spy by the Russian authorities Here is the big news from the boiling cauldron of the East-West spy wars. Russia is...

A transatlantic trade agreement looks even more important in the modest context of the rest of the US-European relationship I am in Washington, DC, this week, trying to find...

A round-up of the international press on Monday, 25 March. A last-minute revision of Cyprus's bail-out plan will see small depositors spared and large depositors hit harder...

Lucinda Creighton, minister for European affairs If there were an award in Ireland for politicians who speak their minds, Lucinda Creighton might bag it. The 33-year-old...

Vygaudas Ušackas is named as the next head of the EU's delegation in Moscow. Catherine Ashton, the European Union's high representative for foreign and security policy,...

A round-up of the international press on Friday, 8 February. Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, is narrowing the

Two interesting, but flawed, books on Kosovo's recent history. In the months after Slobodan Miloševic, Serbia's strongman, signed the Dayton accords that ended the wars...

Macedonia complicit in abduction and torture of German citizen, court finds and awards damages. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has found that Macedonia...

A round-up of the international press on Tuesday, November 13. The

A round-up of the international press on Monday, November 12. Almost all MPs from the three parties that make up Greece's ruling coalition voted in favour of the country's...

‘State of the Union' address to focus on euro crisis. The president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, will outline to the European Parliament next...

The understated director-general for regional policy takes on his new role at an important time. Walter Deffaa is not somebody to make waves. He has risen to the upper...

The film of le Carré's classic spy novel deserves its plaudits, but fails to capture the heart of Cold War espionage. The new film version of John le Carré's...

The EIB, the European Union's bank is seeking to recruit for the General Secretariat and Legal Affairs - Governing Bodies, Secretariat, Protocol Division - Governing Bodies,...

Poland accused of complicity in torture by US intelligence operatives of Saudi national. Poland is facing legal action over torture allegations. Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim...

A Guantánamo prisoner tortured in a CIA prison in Poland now faces the death penalty. It is a sign of how the US's moral values have been corroded in the post-9/11 world...

A name-change for the CIAA. The Conféderation des Industries Agro-Alimentaires de l'UE, the CIAA, is going to change its name in June. Gleeful Anglo-Saxon punsters,...

The EU is entering a new, and disturbing, phase in its efforts to police its borders. In a hi-tech upgrade to ‘Fortress Europe', the EU is developing drone planes,...