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The EU's Special Representative to the southern Mediterranean has won praise throughout his career. Within his inner circle, Bernardino León is likened to Mr Wolf, an...

European Development Fund money for Nigeria during the period 2008-13 is €677 million. I read with interest the article on Nigeria and its EU relationship published by...

Mainstream parties need to find new approaches to reduce the significant electoral potential for extremist parties. The rise of populist extremist parties is one of the most...

Nigeria is a blind spot in Europe's strategy to address instability in the Sahel. The terrorist attack against the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria on 26 August, in...

Norway must continue to promote tolerance and openness if it is to successfully recover from the terrible attacks of a week ago. A week ago (Friday 22 July), I was off work...

Osama bin Laden's death offers opportunity for ‘new era' in campaign against terror. The death of Osama bin Laden, especially when taken in combination with the ongoing...

EU leaders speak of relief but urge caution. EU leaders have welcomed the news that Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks,...

One of the strong men of Spain is gaining an international reputation. Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba is not an international figure, and does not look or behave like one....

The EU and the US hope to resume the sharing of bank data transfers as soon as possible. In the aftermath of al-Qaeda's attack on New York and Washington, DC, on 11...

Why do EU states choose the UN or NATO over the EU's own security mechanism? Here is an invaluable book for those seeking to grasp this slippery topic. Ten years ago, the...

Learning from the mistakes of the past can help us make progress in today's conflicts. In her book “The uses and abuses of history” the historian Margaret Macmillan...

Some form of support likely to be given. EU foreign ministers are to decide later this month whether to back a French programme to train security forces in Somalia. 

Pakistan poses a threat to the European Union through the radicalisation of young Europeans, Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's top counter-terrorism official, has warned....

European Commission has already pledged €60 million. Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, will open an international conference in Brussels today (23...

Protectionism would not curb the bad kinds of globalisation. The world economy will shrink this year for the first time since 1945, and some economists worry that the...

US president tells Turkey's parliament that the EU would gain from ‘diversity of ethnicity, tradition and faith'. President Barack Obama has reiterated his call, first...

Modest European deployments to Afghanistan will not do much to help US President Barack Obama contain the insurgency. An overwhelming majority of Europeans favoured Barack...

Now that the US is, at last, taking steps to deal with the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is time for the European Union to do the same. One of the most...

Afghanistan to test transatlantic relations; Barack Obama wants new approach to security. The EU's willingness to contribute to establishing security in Afghanistan will be...

EU summit prompts police to end long-term operation and arrest 14 suspected terrorists. Belgian police today arrested 14 members of a suspected terrorist cell in Brussels,...