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The controversy between Israel and the US partly reflects their divergent timelines Israel's concern about the spectre of a nuclear Iran has now degenerated into a crisis of...

First visit to Brussels by an Egyptian president results in offer of aid and greater trade. EU leaders yesterday offered Egypt more than €1 billion in aid and the...

An agreement between the UN and the Iraqi government on the treatment of Iranian dissidents is not being respected. Martin Kobler, the special representative of the United...

Lithuanian wants his immunity back. Lithuanian Liberal MEP Viktor Uspaskich is hoping that the Parliament's legal affairs committee might reinstate his parliamentary...

WikiLeaks focuses on the European Parliament. WikiLeaks last week (25 August) released an American diplomat's description of the European Parliament's development committee...

Meetings with Van Rompuy and Ashton to focus on next steps in region Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is to discuss Pakistan and the Balkans during talks with...

The slow evolution under way in Belarus may strike chords with old Franco-watchers. When, in November 2006, the EU set out 12 demands that Belarus should meet in the fields...

It is unclear whether EU-affiliated research institute was the target. Greek police today safely detonated a bomb placed near an EU-affiliated agency in Athens, but...

The EU lacks a unified approach and shows few signs of using what leverage it has against Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship. The Americans call it “Europe's last...

One of the final projects of a masterplan meant to reunify West and East Berlin will come to fruition when the new US embassy opens in July. It is a significant step in the...

Hearts sank as rumours of the appointment were confirmed. Ali Larijani, the 49-year-old former revolutionary guard, the man who had compared any concessions on Iran's nuclear...

Susan Carroll Schwab seems to have slipped under the radar in her ascent to the position of US trade representative (USTR). Until she was confirmed by the US Senate earlier...

The intention of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is crystal clear. "In our country, there will be no pink or orange, nor even a banana revolution," he has...

BIRTHDAY parties have an added frisson when a highly controversial birth is being celebrated. There was quite a bash the other day in the streets of Tiraspol - a city that...

As EU officials prepare to re-enter negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme, allegations are mounting against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's president-elect. Opposition...

US President George W. Bush is expected to set out his vision for EU-US relations in a speech in Brussels on Monday (21 February) at the opening of his European tour. The...

Many hours before John Kerry conceded defeat to George W. Bush, election parties were in full swing in Brussels. The loudest event was a reception at the Renaissance Hotel on...

AN IN-DEPTH knowledge of prostitution in the Middle Ages is not, you would think, a vote winner – even for one of the intellectual giants of our time. And so it proved...

JUST when attempts to heal the transatlantic rift caused by the war in Iraq seemed to be bearing fruit, more headlines about Europe clashing with the US appeared this week....

Three veteran officials are among several notable departures from the US Mission to the EU this summer. Nancy Adams, the US Trade Representative's (USTR), er, representative...