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The EU faces an uphill battle to meet its energy-efficiency ambitions. For something supposedly in almost everyone's self-interest, energy efficiency has failed to inspire...

A parliamentary election in Cyprus on Sunday (22 May) could complicate the search for a solution to the island's division into Greek and Turkish halves. The left-wing...

Conference told that European economies will underperform compared to other developed economies. European industry should position itself to take advantage of the rise of...

Member states want to tighten aid conditions,while Ashton will tell Mubarak that country's aid is at risk. Pressure is growing for the EU to reconsider aid to Egypt worth...

European cities are investing widely in sustainable transport systems. Here we look at three distinct approaches.

Few countries are able to avoid the downturn and experts fear backlash against liberal reforms. After an initial delay, the global economic crisis has hit the western...

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Turkish Cypriot hopes that EU membership heralded a brighter economic future have proved unfounded. FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus | In normal circumstances, Orhan Dagli would be able...

Macedonia is slowly emerging from a painful economic transformation. Growth has picked up to 5.2% in the first quarter of 2008, inflation is fairly low and economic...

Some companies are serious about tackling climate change, but most admit that they have a long way to go. When global warming first became a hot topic, most companies...

Smart technology uses lots of energy – but it can be deployed to save it, too. Global warming and the rapid rise of the internet were two of the biggest stories of the...

Reports hails Denmark's “flexicurity” system as the new yardstick for labour markets. A new survey suggests that Denmark is the best place in the world to conduct...

Sweden is the best EU country for innovation, according to a new report that ranks the climate for innovation in 82 countries. The survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit...

Seven years after the launch of the Lisbon Agenda, Europe's action plan for becoming the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge economy by 2010, it seems that the EU...

If we can assume that investors behave reasonably rationally when deciding where to put their money, Europe's future prospects are perhaps not as hopeless as some suggest. A...

European companies are less prepared for catastrophes such as terrorist attack or bird flu than their peers from North America and Asia-Pacific, according to a recent report...

Two MEPs discuss the positive and negative aspects of eGovernment eGovernment will serve many purposes, but will not replace direct contact with public administration and...

The French and Dutch referenda have intensified debate about how to reconnect electorates and European elites. But if this debate is to have any chance of success, the nature...

Foreign direct investment in the country between 1993 – when the country opened its doors to privately owned companies following the Velvet Revolution – and 2004 amounted...

THE investment climate in the new member states may not be as rosy as some expect, the latest report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has warned. Fears of...