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Chinese authorities say including airlines in the emissions trading scheme violates international climate negotiations. The Chinese government has banned the country's...

US anger over plan to include aviation in the EU's emissions trading scheme. ECJ backs EU over aviation emissions The government of the United States and airlines...

Former European commissioner to lead government after Berlusconi's resignation. Mario Monti, a former European commissioner, has been asked to form a new Italian...

Criticism of Dutch telecoms plans is justified. In early October, Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for the digital agenda, decried the Dutch parliament's decision to...

EU leaders struggle to calm financial markets. The leaders of the eurozone are facing a crucial week as they struggle to calm financial markets and shore up a deal reached...

If the European Parliament wants to connect better with citizens, radical action might be needed. Under the Lisbon treaty, the European Parliament has more power than ever...

What Europeans need to understand about a landmark internet decision in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is set to become the first European country to enshrine net...

Conventional wisdom offers no guide to the EU's current leadership problems. Who leads the European Union? In Paris, Berlin and London, the established answer is that the EU...

Europeans are about to discover just how much US elections affect them. American voters have spoken. And, in a tidal wave, the Republicans have won an overwhelming majority...

He may be polite, but Steven Vanackere, Belgium's foreign minister, has many supporters. When Steven Vanackere was called on to become Belgium's foreign minister in...

The US's failure to take action on climate change is another guarantee that emerging markets will be hard-wired to intensive use of coal – and that severer climate change...

The main men of Belgian politics.

Czech politics used to be depressingly sleazy. Thanks to recent political upheaval, there's now hope. A seamy political cartel in which big business financed big parties:...

In praise of a champion of financial reform and of an simple idea that will come to seem self-evident. America's financial sector has shown renewed strength in recent months...

European Parliament president will meet US vice-president and secretary of state. Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Parliament, on Sunday embarks on a...

European Parliament president will meet US vice-president and secretary of state. Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Parliament, on Sunday embarks on a...

Why Senator Christopher Dodd's financial reform bill will not end the problem of banks that are ‘too big to fail'. The world economy faces a major problem: the largest...

The US president takes a shine to Prague. Barack Obama starts a visit to Prague today (8 April) to sign a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. Prague seems to have...

Ireland's first female European commissioner trailblazes again. Those unfamiliar with Irish politics watching the European Parliament hearings for nominee commissioners...

The leaders of the EU's largest member states are undermining Europe's food security. Reports about the proposed soil directive getting stuck in Council of Ministers have...