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Speaking at a midnight press conference in Brussels, European Council President Herman van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso announce the agreement between the EU’s 27 member states

Viktor Orban, George Papandreou, and David Cameron address the press upon arrival to the EU council in Brussels.

‘What are the prospects for participatory democracy in Europe?’ Under this question the European Economic and Social Committee on Tuesday 22 March 2011 in Brussels convened an extraordinary meeting of

European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek on Thursday said that he is disappointed that the European Stability Mechanism will be an intergovernmental instrument, rather than under the full control of the

Portugese MEP Elisa Ferreira believes that the EU has made some questionable decisions in dealing with the crisis which may prove to be the basis for a much deeper crisis

European Parliament Vice-President Isabelle Durant (Greens/EFA, Belgium) on Tuesday outlined her views on participatory democracy at the extraordinary meeting of Group III (“Various Interests”) of the European Economic and Social

Jillian van Turnhout, Irish member of Group III (“Various Interests”) of the European Economic and Social Committee, presents the draft roadmap for participatory democracy at the end of a full-day

European Council President Herman van Rompuy on Thursday moved to reassure the 20000 demonstrators who held a protest near EU institutions, on the day of the EU Council Summit of

The head of the European Trade Union Confederation, John Monks has said that the contents of the Europact, a re-worked proposal drawn from the joint Merkel Sarkozy “Competitiveness pact” still

Head of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt on Thursday expressed his fears that a new “Europact’ up for discussion at today’s Spring EU Summit may not

Participatory Democracy: Luca Jahier, President of Group III (“Various Interests”) at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) draws conclusions at the end of a day of marathon-talks on participatory

Interview with Jan Olsson, former member of Group III (“Various interests”) at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and rapporteur of the opinion. Mr. Olssen is In its extraordinary

Participatory Democracy: Interview with Jan Olsson, EESC

Participatory Democracy: Interview with Jan Olsson, EESC

Brussels, March 24: The beginning of an EU Summit that was supposed to finalise a deal on economic governance through a ‘competitiveness pact’ or Euro pact, has drawn tens of

Brussels, March 24: The beginning of an EU Summit that was supposed to finalise a deal on economic governance through a ‘competitiveness pact’ or Euro pact, has drawn tens of

Participatory Democracy: Interview with Conny Reuter, President of the Social Platform and Secretary General of Solidar, at Tuesday’s EESC conference in Brussels. Also see: www.eesc.europa.eu

Luca Jahier, President of Group III of the European Economic and Social Committee, speaks in an interview about the EESC’s 22 March conference on participatory democracy. Under the title ‘What

A spokesman for the UN on politcal affairs, Oscar Fernandez Taranco has labelled Israel’s decision to grant permits for further settlments on disputed territory in Ras al-Amud as being ‘provocative

Hillary Clinton has put water in the spotlight in Washington DC, where she met with the World Bank to build a common strategy to avert water crises in developing copuntries,

Escalating violence in the face of protests in Bahrian, Yemen and Syria are serious concerns for the UN High Commissioner for Human rights. They have appealed for the governments in

Catherine Ashton the much critiqued High representative of the EU in International Affairs has had an extremely busy number of months, her remit has included being Europe’s No1 in responding Incoming search terms:eux massiveyoutube libya october 2011

Michel Barnier, the European Commissioner responsible for the Internal Market visited China last week to help deepen trade relations with the increasingly storng Chinese economy. European food was one area

Minister for Finance in the newly elected Irish government has said that the previous calculations regarding the size of the ‘black hole’ in Irish banks may not be as bad

The new Irish Minister for Finance has said he will ‘work around the margins’ to convince EU colleagues that France’s push for Ireland to raise it’s corporation tax base is

Upon his arrival to the Ministerial meeting on the European Stability Mechanism to Luc Freiden, Minister for the Treasury in Luxembourg reiterates the importance of the ESM, and the EFSF

Upon his arrival at a hasitly convened Energy Council in Brussels, Eric Besson French Economic Affairs minister has defended France’s Nuclear program saying that the standards are very high, and

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Franco Frattini, Italy’s Foreign Minister has said that the EU is not at war with Libya. Italy, which is the closest EU country to Libya is already feeling the strain

Any Libya Intervention goes far beyond military action warns Alexander Stubb, the Finish Foreign Minister. He welcomes the fact that there is a ‘very broad mandate’ for action in Libya,

Carl Bildt, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs has downplayed criticism of divisions between EU memebr states in their reactions and committments to aiding Libya end her continuing crisis. Bildt attributed

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French President, Nicholas Sarkozy welcomed Ban Ki Moon, Hillary Clinton, the African Union, and representatives from the Arab League to Paris this weekend, to discuss a collective Libya strategy now

Report: Raymond Frenken, EUX.TV Art lovers from across the world are coming together in Maastricht, the Netherlands, these days for what is acknowledged globally as the world’s leading art and

Catherine Ashton the EU’s High Representative and foreign policy head, reacted this afternoon in Brussels to the announcement of ceasefire made by Libyan officials. She announced that EU military planners

Didier Reynders rang in the 20th anniversary of Belgium’s best known stock index the BEL 20. The event held at the Belgian stock exchange in la Bourse, was attended by

Kristalina Georgieva has said that the situation at the Libya Tunisia border is rapidly deteriorating, putting huge strain on aid workers provideing food and shelter. Libyans have now started fleeing

Kristalina Georgieva, the EU’s Humanitarian Aid Commissioner has warned that the Ivory Coast is facing a civil war as Laurent Gbagbo still refuses to step down.

The United Nations Security Council is in the process of finalising a resolution for the situation in Libya it said this week. International voices calling for a no fly zone,

The Europe 2020 Summit: Excerpts from the panel debate

EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger told the European Parliament on Wednesday to expect further catastrophic developments at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, in the coming hours.

Guy Verhofstadt, the Leader of the ALDE Group in the European Parliement, has said he feels ‘sickened’ by Europe dude to the fact that the EU is now allowing a

An extraordinary meeting of the Conference of Presidents, witnessed a minutes silence from observers, as the EU’s shows it’s solidarity with Japan following it’s tsunami disaster. The threat of a

Kristalina Georgieva, the EU Commissioner for Humanitarian aid and Crisis response visits the Monitoring Information Centre (MIC) to oversee EU assistance to devestated Japan. She is shown stunning before and

Head of the United Nations (UN) nuclear watchdog agency Yukiya Amano called the situation at Japan’s Fukushima power plant “worrying” adding that “high-level of radioactivity was observed in the vicinity

The disaster at the six-reactor nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, has triggered a fresh debate in the European Union over the future of its nuclear power industry.

Japanese television on Wednesday showed more dramatic pictures of the problems at the Fukushiima nuclear power plant. The pictures were released on Tuesday by Tokyo Electric Power company. They show