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A round-up of the stories making news around Europe. The debt row in the US has ended after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favour of a deal to prevent...

Venezuelans need the European Parliament to continue to highlight Hugo Chávez's expropriation of property. In a vote not noted in the pages of European Voice, the European...

The man nominated to be the Hungarian member of the new Commission exudes an air of intellectual honesty and curiosity. László Andor is an unusual politician. For...

Should Belarus's strongman really be allowed to enter the EU? On 16 September, I was sitting in a tiny café in Vilnius with journalist-friends who had travelled from...

The West cannot switch from ‘activism' regarding others' flawed democracies to abstention the next. Elections stolen in Iran, disputed in Afghanistan, and caricatured in...

The debacle in the UN could be the precursor to more clashes over human rights, with Europe as a target. The UN's Durban Review Conference – meant to “serve as a...

Excrement meets a fan, courtesy of Hugo Chávez. One of the key aims of reform of the European Parliament is to raise the profile of the institution by making the debates...

Luis Herrero-Tejedor says he does not 'regret one comma' of what he said. A Spanish MEP expelled from Venezuela for calling President Hugo Chávez a dictator has arrived...

Brazil seeks to strengthen its role as the region's undisputed leader, but also looks for partners further afield.

A Maltese politician garlanded by Libya, for reasons yet unknown. On Saturday (25 October) Dom Mintoff, who was prime minister of Malta in 1955-58 and again in 1971-84, will...

Energy security in the Baltics is getting worse, not better, thanks to a startling lack of foresight from policymakers. IT was a mistake to start with, compounded by...

Summiteers find a common voice on climate change and poverty, but disagree over trade and biofuels. Though personal differences that had threatened to overshadow the...

Agenda topped by biofuels and climate change risks being undermined by personalities and indifference. Regional disputes and personality clashes are threatening to...

Why is the west giving Kosovo independence when it refuses to recognise Transdniestria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia? These three places are nominally independent – at least...

“The simplified treaty resolves the institutional crisis. It does not resolve Europe's moral and political crisis.”Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, speaking at the...

The EU must tackle Russia over its growing military and energy links with Latin America, according to a document produced by the European Commission. The paper, which has...

It has been customary for European leaders to display their Atlanticist credentials by championing a free trade agreement between the EU and the United States. The logic...

At the beginning of this year, the air in Brussels was thick with dire warnings about energy supply. The decision by Gazprom to raise prices for gas exports to Ukraine which...

Observers might be forgiven for thinking that the EU would be pleased with the recent frenzy of co-operation in Latin America. For three decades the EU has promoted regional...

"Bienvenidos, welcome to the White House," said US President George W. Bush at last week's Cinco de Mayo celebrations. "Obviously, Cinco de Mayo is a day of special pride...