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Nuclear energy: new wave in Europe

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Authorised copy of the Eiffel Tower in a Chinese town (Photo: og2t/ Flickr)

Brussels goes far east, caps the CAP and ideologises nuclear energy in the first EU forum - take a bite of the latest news from Brussels

by Federico Poggi // 03/12/07

INTERVIEW
Jean Quatremer (left) with Socialist francophone Elio Di Rupo during the Brussels protest (Photo: DF)

Jean Quatremer: a nation has been born - Flanders

The crisis between the Flemish and francophone Belgians continues. After 172 days without a government and big provocations by the Flemish political class, has Belgium come to a point of no return?

by Donya Feki // 29/11/07

NEWS
Doing exams (Photo: Xufa/ Flickr)

Cocaine Spain

plus the never-ending story of Kosovo

by Ivana Petricevic // 26/11/07

MULTIMEDIA

Don't laugh. It's (video) politics

European politicans occasionally star in dramatically hilarious or simply grotesque scenes - are ETA terrorists a great nation? Was the Russian Breznev actually the president of the United States?

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 20/11/07

PORTRAIT

Frattini: send Roma gypsies home

Applauding Sarkozy and EU bottom of the class in maths - it's the latest news from Brussels

by Lorenzo Morselli // 19/11/07

FOCUS

Yellow week: where did all the MEPs go?

Call a plumber for leaking Balkan and Turkey progress reports, bye-bye Bosnians! aka Lidija Topic's 'total recall' and EU Wining and Dining Day

by Pim de Kuijer // 05/11/07

INTERVIEW
The 38 year old is by turns a poet, history scholar and art critic at the Russian Institute of Arts History in St. Petersburg (Photo: DG)

Putin, prime minister in 2008?

On 26 October, the EU-Russia summit in Mafra, Portugal could reveal the Tsar's energy policy or Kremlin successor ambitions. Poet and art critic Dmitry Golinko provides a Russian reaction

by Anne Lainault (Relecture YL) // 22/10/07

ANALYSIS
The Tories booed Brown on 17 October after he accused Conservative opponent David Cameron as liking 'pre-rehearsed soundbites' (Photo: Tim Waters/ Flickr)

Gordon Brown’s referendum conundrum

Under pressure from all sides, and from within his own party, the British PM continues to resist a referendum on the EU constitution

by Agnès Baritou // 17/10/07

INTERVIEW
Sylvie Goulard: self-titled 'French career diplomat' (Photo: SG)

Joschka Fischer as new EU foreign policy representative?

The upcoming European Summit in Lisbon (18 – 19 October) sees the contents of the new constitutional treaty definitively fixed. Sylvie Goulard, former counsellor for then European Commission president Romano Prodi, teaches the dummies

by Fernando Navarro Sordo (Révision YL) // 17/10/07

FOCUS
The happy couple? (Photo: Darrismac/ Flickr)

Merkozy is leaking water

A conflict of interest is poisoning the apparent honeymoon between the French and German leaders, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, as they work on the EU constitution

by Xavi Hervás // 17/10/07

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