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Ukraine takes Europol to task for its warning about visa liberalisation. The article “Commission proposes temporary checks at internal Schengen borders” (5-11 May)...

Janet Napolitano calls for EU help to make skies safer. Janet Napolitano, the US secretary for homeland security, today urged EU member states to help strengthen...

Apprehending Akhmed Zakayev may have helped the Chechens and has shown a lack of consistency on Poland's part. Depending on how you look at it, Poland's arrest of Akhmed...

‘Visa dialogue' is less about visas than about finding the best way to secure legitimate interests. The debate on visa liberalisation for the EU's neighbours is highly...

EU member states seek to alleviate fears over former inmates traveling freely in the Schengen area. EU interior ministers last night (April 6) agreed to set up a...

Three candidates remain on short-list to become the next director of Europol. The next director of Europol is likely to be either from the UK or Hungary. Interior ministers...

EU states are sharing data on missing passports too slowly and are doing too little to protect data, EU executive says. EU member states are failing to meet their...

Agenda topped by biofuels and climate change risks being undermined by personalities and indifference. Regional disputes and personality clashes are threatening to...

Slovenia has secured agreement on a set of “red line” positions that member states will follow when negotiating with the US on entry into its visa-waiver programme...

The European Parliament last week (25 October) took a crucial first step towards EU backing for more effective counter-narcotics policies. The overwhelming support for...

Doping is threatening the reputation and commercial viability of some of the EU's most popular sports. Lucy Shackleton reports on efforts to wipe out drug use. This year's...

Intellectual property theft is booming. Covering copyright and trademark infringements to software piracy, this global ‘industry' leeches money from governments, harms...

If there is one area where the Commission could be described as active on over the last two years it is justice and home affairs. Some 20% of all initiatives from the...

So far, Kosovo's controversial new prime minister, Agim Ceku, has been making the right moves. Despite howls of opposition from the Serbian capital Belgrade when his name...

A row over the leaking of confidential documents has erupted between Franz-Hermann Brüner, the man seeking re-appointment as director of EU anti-fraud office OLAF, and...

The man seeking re-appointment as head of OLAF, the European Commission's anti-fraud office, admitted to MEPs this week that he should have been more transparent about its...

Even after the fatal terrorist attacks in Madrid and London, the EU is still without an effective cross-border policing body of the sort that applies in the US. "Criminals...

The European Parliament's budgetary control committee is to organise hearings in October of the five candidates on the shortlist to head the EU's anti-fraud office. The...

The operations of the European Commission's anti-fraud office OLAF are not adequately monitored, according to its own supervisory committee. In a document recently...

Franz-Hermann Brüner has had a turbulent five years as head of the European Commission's anti-fraud office OLAF. Yet, despite facing accusations ranging from forgery to...