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Doing business in Asia can be daunting, but there is an EU scheme that can help. Significant cultural and linguistic barriers exist for European companies wanting to export...

The EU's greater foreign-policy ambitions are being reflected in EU studies courses. Next week (25-26 October), the College of Europe will host a conference on challenges...

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced the first major reshuffle of senior Commission officials since the start of his second mandate. As...

Electing European commissioners will not necessarily improve Europe's long-term prospects. Take Angela Merkel and Jerzy Buzek, respectively the chancellor of Germany and the...

My generation is past its political expiration date. Having reached pensionable age, I qualify to be a grumpy old man. I should be boring my children, and the students at...

This scientist may prove a formidable chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and financial committee. At a conference in Gothenburg last month, Sharon Bowles found...

EU states need to exert the influence they have over the IMF. For weeks, there has been a refrain from EU finance ministers that the global economy is recovering. Such talk...

Commission wants a minimum tax on carbon but proposal would need backing from Council. The European Commission is pressing ahead with controversial plans for an EU-wide...

Hostility to lobbying is commonplace and widespread, but it is an integral part of the political landscape. Lobbying has become something of a dirty word. The European...

The Commission still has a lot on its plate trying to establish which foods can be described as healthy. When is a doughnut a healthy snack and a slice of brown bread bad...

Carbon prices sharply down since last summer; analysts predict further market contraction. Could the economic slump be good for the planet? As production lines fall silent,...

EU leaders approve composition of group mandated to ponder the future of Europe. EU leaders today approved the addition of nine members to a group mandated to reflect...

Stephen Wall, a man with the ear of three UK premiers, by turn attacks and defends British attitudes towards the EU while arguing that the UK can now feel “very...

The father of London's would-be mayor and the author of the novel “The Commissioner” looks back at his “most wonderful job” – in the Commission in Brussels. If...

EU leaders and officials have spent the last few months maintaining that Kosovo is a unique case which in no way sets a precedent for the solution of frozen conflicts...

Declaring independence does not mean that Kosovo will become a state overnight. Kosovo's declaration of independence on Sunday (17 February) means that Kosovars now have...

The fall of communism in Poland produced many astonishing political careers as the regime's former opponents emerged from cramped, book-lined apartments to take their places...

Europe is suffocating vital new medicines under a mass of paperwork – putting at risk both patient welfare and the industry's prosperity. That was the alarm sounded last...

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator turned politician, was nominated last month in European Voice's EV50 awards for the campaigner of the year category. In his work as...

A famous New Yorker cartoon depicts two people talking at a Manhattan party. “I'm writing a book,” says one. “Neither,” replies the other, “am I.” This mordant...