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Europe has failed NATO's existential test in Afghanistan, Smiles on stage but sighs behind the scenes will be the story of the NATO summit at Lisbon on 20 November....

A global meeting on biodiversity starts in Nagoya, Japan, on Monday (18 October). We look at how ‘real-world experts' are changing scientists' and politicians' perceptions...

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...

One week after the April riots in Tallinn, while Estonia's embassy in Moscow was surrounded by an irate mob of pro-Kremlin youth groups and Estonian websites, both government...

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and president in office of the EU and the G8, believes that progress in Europe and globally can only be achieved through integration. She...

In Washington, DC, the Democrats, fresh from their successes in the mid-term elections, are slavering for more blood. Having forced the Bush administration to ditch Donald...

Population politics has a bad image in many European countries. At its least offensive, it is linked to traditional roles for women; at worst, it is associated with...

There have been seven UK ministers for Europe since Tony Blair came to power in 1997. So if the past is anything to go by, newly appointed incumbent Geoffrey William Hoon has...

There is a view that by far the most serious contemporary challenge to global security and economic stability is not the conflict in Iraq, nor Russia's energy supply...

When Joseph Nye, a former US official, coined the phrase 'soft power', detractors - chief among them US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld - bristled. "I don't know what...

With a new EU-China trade dispute brewing, this time over shoes, it is timely to ask what has happened to the much-trumpeted strategic partnership between the EU and China...

Cinema-goers reacted with a mixture of amusement and disgust to that early scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 where Paul Wolfowitz uses saliva to fix his hair. The reaction from some...

As the dust begins to settle on the George W. Bush visit, Europeans are seeking the answer to the question: are we witnessing a genuine shift of policy or only of style?...

After an embarrassment at his first EU summit in Gothenburg in 2001, President George W. Bush, a man with a famously short fuse and limited attention-span, must have been...

COLIN Powell's public appearances during his valedictory stopover in Brussels last week left some of us wondering how the Bush administration could afford to dispense with...

President George W. Bush has accepted the resignations of six cabinet members. So far his proposed replacements are administration insiders. Colin Powell, the...

FOR Europe the western sky is darkening. The appointment of Condoleezza Rice as US secretary of state signals not only that the neo-conservative, unilateralist impulse is not...

Two MEPs discuss the direction of EU relations with the new US administration The EU and US need to work more closely together on an economic and political level, says

Within hours of the Republicans' victory in last week's presidential election the battle for power in the second administration of President George W. Bush erupted. It pits...

EU foreign policy has experienced a turbulent adolescence, emotionally scarred by the US-led war on Iraq. But it will enter adulthood, if things go to plan, while...