Imposing sanctions on Bangladesh for unsafe working conditions while concluding a trade agreement with its neighbour India without a strong social component would be a mistake for the EU. After more than 1,000 people ...

European Parliamentarians deserve praise for blocking a textile agreement with Uzbekistan due to systematic and continuous human rights violations in its cotton sector. This week, the parliament’s trade committee will ...

For those suffering from eurozone crisis syndrome, it is easy to forget that an economic world exists beyond the EU's borders. For all the talk of recession and depression it would be a mistake to think that economies ...

World media has been abuzz with America's "Asia Pivot" and President Barack Obama's groundbreaking trip to Rangoon. But while the visit signals the importance of Asia as a strategic focus for Obama's second ...

Perspectives for a European security strategy towards Asia: Views from Asia, Europe and the US. By Gustaaf Geeraerts and Eva Cross (eds.). VUBPress; 309 pages; €37.74 (excl. VAT and shipping) at EUbookshop.com. As one ...

Sweden has denied diluting EU sanctions on Iran. But fellow EU diplomats say it did. Walking into an EU meeting in Luxembourg on Monday (15 October), Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt attacked Israeli media reports ...

As tensions rise between Asia’s economic giants, China and Japan, over a small group of uninhabited mini-islands in the East China Sea, reaction from the EU remains conspicuous by its absence. The world’s second and ...