Commission official to bridge 'supervision gap' of Swift agreement

Today @ 17:44 CET

Pressed by the coming into force of the "Swift agreement" on 1 August, the EU commission is about to appoint an interim "technician" to oversee the searches conducted by US authorities on European bank transactions as part of anti-terrorist investigations

Sarkozy targets Roma for explusion

Today @ 09:33 CET

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday announced his government is to order police to round up allegedly illegal migrants of Roma ethnicity for expulsion from French territory and destroy their encampments.

Italian gag law threatens bloggers with €25,000 fines for ‘incorrect' facts

Today @ 17:44 CET

Bloggers, podcasters and even anyone who posts updates on social networks such as Facebook all face being slapped with fines of up to €25,000 for publishing incorrect facts, if a bill that journalists' organisations are calling "authoritarian" currently before the Italian parliament is passed.

New EU police investigation co-operation alarms civil liberties watchdogs

28.07.2010 @ 17:35 CET

Long a refusenik in the realm of European co-operation on justice and home affairs, the UK has decided to opt in to a proposal that will simplify requests by police in other EU member states to investigate suspects in criminal cases.

EU denounces Japanese executions

Today @ 09:28 CET

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has expressed "deep regret" after two men were hanged for murder in Japan on Wednesday and repeated a call for a moratorium on using the death penalty.

Norway tops up funding scheme for south-eastern EU states

Today @ 09:27 CET

Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein on Wednesday agreed to donate €1.79 billion to EU's poorer southern and eastern members in the coming five years for green projects, labour rights, research and human resources, a top-up by 22 percent compared to the previous period.

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Brussels worried about falling support for EU in Iceland

28.07.2010 @ 09:27 CET

The European Union formally launched negotiations with Iceland on Tuesday over the north Atlantic island's accession to the bloc even as negative opinion towards the EU mounts, a development that has not gone unnoticed in Brussels and other national capitals.

EU population over half-a-billion

28.07.2010 @ 10:07 CET

The European Union's population reached the half-a-billion mark at the beginning of 2010, with migration pushing it up more than natural increase, new figures from the EU's statistics agency Eurostat showed.

EU cautiously backs Ukraine's gas reform

28.07.2010 @ 09:27 CET

The EU commission has cautiously welcomed a new law on the Ukrainian gas sector as a "first step" in a series of reforms that could reduce the country's dependence on Russian gas imports and see more foreign investments flowing into the embattled economy.

Cameron 'angry' over opposition to Turkish EU membership

27.07.2010 @ 17:33 CET

On his first visit to Turkey since becoming British prime minister, David Cameron gave a compliment-laden speech to the EU hopeful, backing the country's desire to become a regional power and paying tribute to its relatively strong economy.

EU foreign ministers approve diplomatic service

27.07.2010 @ 09:20 CET

EU foreign ministers on Monday gave the nod to the overall structure of the Union's new diplomatic service paving the way for chief of diplomacy Catherine Ashton to begin making appointments to the 1000s-strong service.

Greece's locked up migrant children attempt suicide

27.07.2010 @ 15:37 CET

Greece is imprisoning unaccompanied migrant children in violation of EU laws and often in appalling conditions, human rights campaigners have revealed. The situation is so appalling, a report from Amnesty International says, that children resort to hunger strikes in protest at their imprisonment, and some even attempt suicide.

Push for Serbia EU accession speed-up in wake of Kosovo court ruling

26.07.2010 @ 20:39 CET

A number of EU states are in favour of speeding up Serbia's EU accession process in the wake of Belgrade's loss at the International Court of Justice over Kosovo's declaration of independence.

Iceland membership talks formally begin Tuesday

26.07.2010 @ 17:41 CET

At their last meeting before the summer break, EU foreign ministers on Monday gave the green light for the start of negotiations on Iceland's membership bid.

Greece back under EU-IMF microscope as Asian stocks rise

26.07.2010 @ 09:31 CET

Officials from the EU, IMF and European Central Bank arrive in Athens today to investigate the implementation of the governing centre-left Pasok's austerity measures before a second, €9 billion tranche of eurozone-IMF bail-out agreed in May can be disbursed.