Brussels on Monday hosted a crucial meeting with officials from Russia, Ukraine, the EU and international financial institutions that sought to avert a repeat of the gas crisis that left millions of European citizens in the cold during the winter.

An Indonesian wants to design robots to help the disabled, a Kenyan to put clean water into people’s homes. What do they have in common? They are making their dreams

Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, on Monday delivered the 2009 Paul Henri Spaak Lecture in Brussels. Lecture text This lecture series was named after Paul-Henri Spaak, the Foreign Minister of Belgium who played

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Human Rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize 2003 was today in the European Council at the COHOM – Human Rights Committee – meeting in presence of Riina Kionka, Personal Representative for Human Rights of the High

Karel van Miert, the man who built Europe’s strict competition policy passed away on Monday after a fatal accident in his garden. Van Miert was responsible for creating the right antitrust rules in the European Union that keep monopolies from

This is EUX.TV’s analysis of the June 2009 EU summit in Brussels, where Jose Manuel Barroso was endorsed by EU government leaders for another five years as president of the European Commission.

European Union governments early on Friday decided to unanimously endorse Jose Manuel Barroso’s bid for a second five-year term as President of the European Commission, Europe’s top executive body. EUX.TV Editor Raymond Frenken reports from the European Council in Brussels,

EU heads of state and government were still meeting late evening Thursday after Jose Manuel Barroso presented his vision for the next five years. Update by EUX.TV editor Raymond Frenken, at the summit in Brussels.

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the President of the Party of European Socialists, told journalists on Thursday that the parliament needs to be consulted on appointing a new president of the European Commission. EU Heads of state are due to approve Jose

Graham Watson, leader of the liberal-democrat ALDE group in the European Parliament, wants the European Council, the body that unites the governments of the member states, to make a ‘legally binding’ proposal on the next president of the European Commission.

Joseph Daul, President of the European People’s Party, the biggest group in the European Parliament, on Thursday said that if the EU heads of state later today propose to nominate Jose Manuel Barroso for another five-year term as President of

Hans-Gert Poettering, the President of the European Parliament – who is supposed to stand above the political parties in the parliament – on Thursday expressed his clear support for Jose Manuel Barroso as president of the European Commission in the

As European Union heads of state and government, including Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, arrive in Brussels for today’s June 2009 EU Summit, they are facing pressure from opposition groups in the European parliament, led by Greens/EFA co-president

‘Computer Mediated Transactions’ is the title of the 2009 Guglielmo Marconi lecture, delivered by Google economist Hal Varian to the Lisbon Council in Brussels. Text of lecture.

The European Union has made the fight against smoking one of its top public health priorities. Tobacco-related diseases are the single largest cause of death in Europe today. Tobacco accounts

In Brussels, European heads of state on Thursday and Friday will meet to decide on giving the current EU Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, another five-year term. Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt also is candidate for the position of

Iranian artists Marjane Satrapi, writer of ‘Persepolis’ and film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf on Tuesday denounced at the European Parliament a coup d’état by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following the presidential elections in Iran. According to information they obtained from Tehran, Moussavi received

This is the EUX.TV report on the grand finale in Rotterdam of ThinkAboutIt, an initiative by the European Journalism Centre to encourage the creation of a European blogosphere, and to stimulate online debate about European issues ahead of the 2009

EUX.TV presents ‘Covering Europe; European journalists analyzing the state of Europe.’ In this June 2009 post-election edition, EUX.TV moderator Raymond Frenken sits down with Lisbeth Kirk, editor of EUobserver.com; Swedish freelance journalist Teresa Kuchler; New Europe editor Alex Koronakis; and

This is the news report on the European elections put together in the zEUs project, by the European studies students at Maastricht University. After the European Parliament elections, analysts discuss the low voter turnout and the gains of anti-European parties.

This video letter to future members of the European parliament was produced by blogger Elmine Wijnia as part of the Th!nkAboutIt blogging competition organized by the European Journalism Centre. Also see: http://www.thinkaboutit.eu/

Sweden’s Pirate Party got 7.1% of Swedish votes in the 2009 European Parliament elections, which will result in one seat in the European parliament, two if the Lisbon Treaty goes into effect. Piratpartiet strives to reform laws regarding copyright and

Socialists and Social-Democrats in the European Parliament have taken a big beating in today’s elections, especially in France and Germany. Jan Marinus Wiersma, the Vice President of the PES group, acknowledges the defeat.

Video recorded on May 27, 2009. In the runup to last weekend’s European elections, Jiri Paroubek, leader of the social-democrat opposition party in the Czech Republic, was repeatedly bombarded with hundreds of eggs during his election campaign.

The coverage of the European elections on EUX.TV – the European Affairs Channel, is best followed via our YouTube partner channel. Please go to: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=EUXTV&view=videos. The links to our reports, interviews, raw news videos and debate will be made available

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

www.climatechange.eu.com Teenagers from 21 EU Member States get animated about climate change. Here they present their top tips for tackling one of the greatest environmental challenges facing us today.

The EU’s Eastern Partnership: zEUs Project Report The European Union is defining a new kind of partnership with the countries between its member states and Russia. The policy is called ‘The Eastern Partnership’. This report in the zEUs project at

EU Plans Micro Finance Facility to Boost Social Economy A new EU micro finance facility is being proposed by the European Commission in order to save jobs and to boost the “social economy”, says Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the

Newropeans Wins EUX.TV Viewers Vote Some 18 percent of the EUX.TV viewers that took part of in the survey on the European elections said they want us to vote for Newropeans, a new political group that is taking part in

Sweden Proposes Common EU Asylum System Arriving at a meeting of EU Justice Ministers in Luxembourg, Swedish immigration minister Tobias Billström outlines the need for a common EU asylum system to deal with immigration. Sweden will hold the rotating presidency

Dutch public broadcaster bans Newropeans from debate The Dutch public broadcaster NOS on Wednesday night did not allow the political group Newropeans to take part in the main televized debate on the European elections. This video was recorded by Newropeans

www.ec.europa.eu www.youtube.com www.u2.com ec.europa.eu The clip produced by the European Commission Representation in Poland celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Iron Curtain from a Polish perspective. It Incoming search terms:solidarnosc austerity protest

The Netherlands and the UK have set the tone for the European elections, hinting at major victories for parties that oppose the governments in power. Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party secured four out of the 25 Dutch seats in the European

This is how the first results of exit polls were reported on Dutch public television on Thursday evening, showing major losses for the ruling christian-democrat CDA and social-democrat PvdA, with major gains for Geert Wilders’ PVV party, which leaped from

This is EUX.TV’s curtainraiser on the eve of the 2009 European elections: Between Thursday and Sunday of this week, some 378 million citizens of the 27 member states of the European Union are able to vote for the European Parliament.