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Less than a year ago, Alfred Gusenbauer, as the leader of Austria's Socialist Party (SPÖ), had a secure place among the also-rans of European politics. Clumsy, unlucky, how...

The EU delegation to India and Pakistan last weekend discovered that not everybody regards Romano Prodi as the Commission's chief. When Belgian Prime Minister Guy...

HEADS of state and government gathered at a German government official residence at Petersberg, outside Bonn, to discuss key elements of the Agenda 2000 package of reforms to...

Put Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima and Commission President Jacques Santer on the same stage and you get what you deserve. The two men began their final summit press...

He may no longer be the leader of the EU's most powerful member state, but former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was present in spirit throughout last weekend's Vienna summit....

THE increasingly bitter transatlantic dispute over the EU's banana regime is set to drag on into next year despite Washington's decision to delay publication of a list of...

AGAINST the backdrop of cuts in European interest rates to ward off the threat of an economic slowdown in 1999, next week's EU-US summit will be dominated by efforts to...

AUSTRIAN Finance Minister Rudolf Edlinger has given up hope of brokering a deal to harmonise EU taxes on savings, energy use and corporate profits by the end of the year....

THE special summit called at the insistence of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to focus EU leaders' attention on bringing Europe "closer to its citizens" is likely to...

AUSTRIAN and German fears that a huge influx of low-paid migrants from central and eastern Europe could follow EU enlargement are vastly overblown, according to immigration...

Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima gave a revealing insight into how key decisions are taken by heads of EU governments at a dinner with foreign journalists last week.At the...

ALL of the 20 European Commissioners attended the regular summit meeting with the incoming presidency of the Council of Ministers, this time with the Austrian government in...

Geoff Meade takes a light-hearted look at life in the European UnionTHAT barrel chest of Viktor Klima's is not the result of a healthy appetite and good muscle tone. The man...

Chancellor Viktor Klima may be forgiven a wry smile as he contemplates Austria's term at the EU helm, reports Tim Jones. For, until September, it is pre-election Germany...

The Euro-11 must not become a club which excludes the other four members of the Union, argues Austria's Finance Minister Rudolf Edlinger, since this could 'informally' split...

THE Austrian government has set a punishing timetable for breaking the back of intergovernmental negotiations over how best to overhaul the EU's spending programmes. If...

"We are starting to show the British people that Europe can be a positive influence on their lives and on the things they care about. Now we have stopped being so paranoid...

A CEREMONIAL visit by European Commissioners to the Austrian government next week will be characterised as much by unfinished EU business as showing the Union's relative...

FOR many years, Austria's mainstream politicians have been acting under the menace of a highly articulate political maverick with pleasant looks, strong popular appeal and a...

When it assumes responsibility for EU business next month, Austria will be the first of the Union's three newest members to do so. Yet, so far, it has adopted a low profile...