Go to the Content Friday, 8 August 2008
European Central Bank says it has “no bias” towards rate cuts or hikes.
European Commission condemns coup but does not demand reinstatement of Mauritania's democratically elected leaders.
Milder weather and increase in farm land should help this year's harvest increase by 16%.
EU allows in exports from region that is China's largest producer of poultry meat.
New British map outlines potential lines of argument in battle for future energy resources.
A Rwandan report finds top French politicians supported the 1994 genocide, but France rejects the legitimacy of the investigation.
EU companies should be able to trade carbon credits internationally from December 2008.
Junior governing party joins opposition in calling for date for switch to the euro.
EU states are sharing data on missing passports too slowly and are doing too little to protect data, EU executive says.
France hopes to strike deal on energy package; national champions versus liberalisation.
Countries fear shift of EU production abroad, seeking hard data on risks to industries.
EU is now soliciting views on a post-2012 agreement on climate change.
Despite failing at the voting booth, the idea of popular referendums to dissolve parliament wins presidential backing.
A ruling on the rights of foreign-born spouses is raising questions about Denmark's plans to abandon its EU opt-outs.
Nine countries invoke ‘enhance co-operation' in bid to set common rules for international divorces.
European Commission had asked for the report after outcry over measures targeting Italy's Roma minority.
Pressure mounts on Bulgaria and Romania
EU 'compounding' dangers of divided Bosnia
EU-wide rules on immigrant employment resisted
Borg seeks to cut overcapacity in the European fishing fleet
World
EU's failure to agree on Schengen visas for Kosovo passport-holders leaves Kosovars less mobile and facing significant legal uncertainties.
Paris believes an informal forum could help overcome a Turkish roadblock.
EU executive releases €3 million to one of the countries most affected by high food prices.
Tbilisi repeats calls for replacement of Russian forces following fresh violence in South Ossetia
Experts are on the now on the ground; EU executive says it may help with reconstruction.
EU tightlipped after Iran fails to meet deadline to international offer to freeze sanctions.
EU is capable of supplying all the troop-carrying helicopters needed by UN peacekeepers, report says.
Troop levels rise, but effectiveness in question.
Electronic travel permits form part of reform of visa-waiver programme.
EU-Israel agree to liberalise trade
Amnesty says situation in China is declining EU backs South African role in Zimbabwe EU to offer Ukraine “association” agreement
Business & economics
European Commission believes globalisation fund should be used for 600 ex-textile workers.
Consumers in the eurozone in particular are tightening their belts.
EU executive believes that mandatory switch to self-extinguishing cigarettes could save hundreds of death a year.
EU sets aside for radio frequency for accident warning system similar to those already in operation in the US and Japan.
Just how well prepared is the EU for a financial crisis this summer?
Producers in the eurozone have raised their prices by 8% in the past year.
Broadcaster is given six months to repay credit or submit a restructuring plan.
City of London warns that EU executive's plans would exacerbate the sector's problems.
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Seven years of talks have helped the EU; it needs to lock in those gains.
The European Union loses credibility as it flounders with states that flout its rules.
Post-Soviet Russia is unlikely to fall apart, provided ethnic Russians can curb their chauvinism and heavy-handedness.
A ‘faux-Finn' finds Finns are changing – but, thankfully, not their summer habits.
Karadžic's trial will be a milestone for justice, but he has left a legacy of human-rights issues that remain to be resolved.
If the French can turn their attention from what Britain can bring to the party, they may yet be able to lay claim to re-launching Europe's defence policy.
by Chris Patten
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Analysis
How Europe tries to police Spanish fisheries.
The European Central Bank is our best hope in troubled times, even if EU leaders try to use it as a scapegoat for economic ills.
People
Is Dimitris Dimitiadis, president of the European Economic and Social Committee, bound for greater things?
What Caroline Lucas might soon have in common with the far-right.
The life of a European Parliament president is never quiet, even in August.
Travelling in style, recession style.
Just the food for marathon trade talks.
A colour-blind regulator meets a red line?
Seven directors-general wait for the music to start.
It will take more than one presidency to reverse the hostility the French now feel towards the EU.
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