Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.
The U.S. dollar was mixed against the euro and the pound Thursday after the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged, signaling with its peers that inflation was more pressing than growth.
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet warned Wednesday that euro nations are already seeing the first signs of an inflation price spiral, calling on governments to take care not to grant wage hikes that could fuel further price rises.
The European Union will aim to spend €90 million ($140 million) a year to provide free fruit and vegetables to schools across the continent to tackle child obesity, an official said Tuesday.
The WTO chief says European and American farm subsidies are partly responsible for high food prices because they undermine farming in developing countries.
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved controversial new rules for expelling illegal immigrants from the bloc, overcoming opposition and protests
Jeremy Rifkin is an internationally renowned economist, social critic and author. Since 1977 he has been president of the Foundation On Economic Trends (FOET). For the last 14 years he has been a fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program. He has written 17 highly successful and thought-provoking books including "The End of Work" (1995), "The Hydrogen Economy" (2002) and most recently "The European Dream" (2004).
Legislators in Peru plan to lodge a protest on Friday with the European Parliament after it declined to list the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, an insurgent group, as a terrorist organization.
Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.
The U.S. dollar was mixed against the euro and the pound Thursday after the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged, signaling with its peers that inflation was more pressing than growth.
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet warned Wednesday that euro nations are already seeing the first signs of an inflation price spiral, calling on governments to take care not to grant wage hikes that could fuel further price rises.
The European Union will aim to spend €90 million ($140 million) a year to provide free fruit and vegetables to schools across the continent to tackle child obesity, an official said Tuesday.
The WTO chief says European and American farm subsidies are partly responsible for high food prices because they undermine farming in developing countries.
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved controversial new rules for expelling illegal immigrants from the bloc, overcoming opposition and protests
Jeremy Rifkin is an internationally renowned economist, social critic and author. Since 1977 he has been president of the Foundation On Economic Trends (FOET). For the last 14 years he has been a fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program. He has written 17 highly successful and thought-provoking books including "The End of Work" (1995), "The Hydrogen Economy" (2002) and most recently "The European Dream" (2004).
Legislators in Peru plan to lodge a protest on Friday with the European Parliament after it declined to list the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, an insurgent group, as a terrorist organization.
Video courtesy Good Morning AmericaHeather Mills broke down in tears on Britain's GMTV on Wednesday, as she addressed her battles with the tabloid press and her ongoing divorce from Paul McCartney.
It's all well and good governments and the public demanding cleaner air, but how are those charged with effecting reductions of pollutants -- the automobile and truck manufacturers -- going to tackle a problem that can't simply be fixed overnight?
Francois Bayrou's presidential appeal is a little different from those of his political rivals. A teacher, author, farmer and part-time horse breeder, the centrist Bayrou is a renaissance man running a no-frills presidential campaign.
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a contentious figure in French politics. A far-right nationalist, he brought the Front National Party into the limelight in 2002 when he reached the presidential run-offs against Jacques Chirac.
Romania's arrival in the European Union has had one unexpected effect -- it has handed a significant bonus to the forces of the far right in the European Parliament.
European countries knew about U.S. secret jails for terrorism suspects and have obstructed an investigation into the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, a draft European Parliament report said on Tuesday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has faced a barrage of criticism over the EU budget deal he brokered as European lawmakers said they could not accept it unless governments put up more cash.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has suggested that European leaders are pretending to be shocked by news reports America took suspected terrorists to secret prison camps in Europe for interrogation.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the European Parliament that he hopes to resolve a bitter row over the European Union's budget when members meet for a summit in December.
European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson on Tuesday urged EU member states to back a plan to release millions of euros' worth of Chinese-made garments stuck in European ports, warning that a failure to do so could lead to economic hardship.
Here is the full text of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's speech to the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, as provided by the UK's Press Association:
Treasury prices staged a late rally Monday on news the federal government would sell just $22 billion in two-year notes at its auction Wednesday while warnings of slow economic growth in Europe by its Central Bank president attracted foreign investors.
A is for Advertising, which at election times more than ever reminds us of George Orwell's definition of the trade: "The rattling of sticks in swill buckets."
British insularity, and self-belief, was famously demonstrated by the old 1940s newspaper headline: "Fog in Channel: Continent cut off." But something similar seems to be happening in this election. Europe has been cut off again for the duration of the contest.
Pope John Paul II appears to feeling better and he was eager to return to work, according to a bishop who visited the pontiff Saturday at the Rome hospital where he is being treated for a respiratory infection.
A business traveler from Morocco arrives at a British airport. Instead of showing his passport, a camera checks that the pattern of his iris matches official computer records.
The European Parliament has called for a rerun of the Ukrainian presidential election between Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was proclaimed the winner amid allegations of fraud.
Protesters in Kiev's main square watched a crucial Supreme Court debate on outdoor TV screens Thursday as Ukraine awaited the judges' ruling on the country's election crisis.
The embattled head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said he would conduct a "very limited" reshuffle of his proposed EU executive and hoped to present it to the European Parliament in less than a month.
The incoming head of the European Commission has defended his decision to delay a vote on his embattled executive team, saying he was confident he could find support for a new team.
European workers could find themselves better protected from long hours if European Commission proposals to revise the Working Time Directive are accepted.
The European Parliament has approved former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso as the next president of the European Union's executive commission.
Portugal's prime minister will be officially proposed as the next European Commission president following a painstaking search for a replacement for the outgoing Romano Prodi, it has been announced.
European Union leaders are facing a new round of difficult talks to strike a deal on a historic constitution, six months after a first attempt collapsed amid acrimony.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, reacting to big election gains by anti-European Union candidates, has pledged to keep the UK within the 25-nation bloc.
When the "Ode to Joy" rang out in Dublin, Ireland to welcome 10 new nations to the European Union last month, there was an overwhelming sense of political and economic optimism.
An international arrest warrant has been issued for an Algerian man whose fingerprints allegedly match those found on a plastic bag of detonators linked to the March 11 Madrid train bombings.
European Parliament President Pat Cox has announced he will not run for re-election in June, ending more than two years as leader of the EU legislature.
Polling is under way in Iran for disputed parliamentary elections predicted to give more control of the Islamic nation to conservative religious hardliners.
Iranians are preparing to go to the polls amid predictions that conservative hardliners will flex their muscles and take control of the Islamic nation's parliament.
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