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France's finance minister has a domestic role in a global crisis. It is not in the least to François Baroin's discredit that, in the middle of the most severe...

EU divided over the role of the Eastern Partnership. The EU's central European member states tend to see the partnership as a first step for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,...

EU leaders have their holidays cut short. August proved not to be as much of a holiday month as some European leaders might have hoped. It was not just David Cameron, the...

A round-up of the top stories in Europe's newspapers. Supporters of Muammar Qaddafi are fighting “a rearguard campaign” using snipers, mortars and rockets to try to stop...

European newspapers give ample space to a meeting later in the day between Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president. The two leaders,...

Do centre-right national leaders travel in style? A meeting of national leaders from the centre-right European People's Party was held on the outskirts of Brussels last...

European centre-right leaders meet in Finland's capital. The first in a series of meetings aimed at finalising reforms to economic governance in the eurozone will come...

Ireland's new government has said it wants to renegotiate terms of Ireland's €67.5 billion bail-out. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary...

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...

French repatriation policy and EU efforts to integrate Roma to be discussed by Paris and Brussels. The European Commission will hold a high-level meeting with the French...

France's concerns about Roma immigrants is not the greatest threat to Romania's membership of the Schengen zone. In the face of mounting criticism of its programme to deport...

Germany's finance minister appears to be dusting off his old idea of a core Europe. What are we to make of a leading European finance minister arguing that Europe needs to...

Danish climate minister summoned to brief centre-right leaders on climate-change talks. Connie Hedegaard, Denmark's minister for climate and energy, has been asked at short...

France's Europe minister is a combative Atlanticist and long-time loyalist of Nicolas Sarkozy. For France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, there are three types of appointment....

To claim that it is again France's turn to appoint the president of the Commission would be a bit of a push. According to the article ‘Barroso should not be given a free...

European Commission gives France four days to answer questions about its aid package for its carmakers. The European Commission has given the French government until 17...

France ‘not imposing conditions' on EU investments, wants pan-EU plan to help carmakers. François Fillon, the prime minister of France, today strongly defended his...

Date of extra summit to be announced; protectionism on the agenda. Mirek Topolánek, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, is today in Brussels to meet José...

If France's presidency of the EU is judged a success, the French government will owe much to Pierre Sellal, its permanent representative to the EU. If France's highly...

Increases in the cost of energy account for most of the increase. Producers in the 15-member eurozone raised their prices by a record amount this July – 9.0% year on...