‘Europeanism is like Esperanto – artificial and dead,’ according to Czech president Vaclav Klaus. The Czech Republic is the most unreliable of all when it comes to the EU’s reform treaty

But it hadn’t banked on such a large opposition from two thirds of the population and such an angry reaction from its future neighbours. A return to the cold war?

Amidst a global food crisis and scarcer fish, the fishermen 'victims' of EU commercial agreements set off in their pirogues for the shores of Europe

Two out of three British Council offices were deemed 'illegal' and closed down in Russia in January. A reflection on ties between the Kremlin and London

After seven years of waiting for an end to the Bush presidency, Europeans should not wait indefinitely in hope of redefining US interests

The 62nd UN general assembly opens on 24 September with a focus on climate change. Famous protestors remind HQ about their 2015 world hunger promises

Turkey's legislative elections of 22 July reconfirm prime minister Erdogan's moderate islamist government by absolute majority

Plans to build US missile sites force Europeans to reconsider their position

Independent from or autonomous within Serbia? Negotiations on Kosovo’s future status wound up in March

Independent or not, today the people of Kosovo want only one thing: the end of the United Nations’ ‘occupation’ of their territory

In pre-civil war ambience, how are the Lebanese making a living?

On Feb 27 in Belgrade, 15, 000 Serbs protested against the UN's plans for

independence from Serbia. What do Serbs and Albanians think about Kosovar identity?

Afghanistan - delicate name for European governments. Italy is bridging the gulf between its international obligations and the Senate

400 million Euros from the Commission, $770 million from the US. But Lebanon remains consumed by instability

February 21 is the United Nations deadline for Resolution 1737 for Iran to stop its uranium-enrichment programme

In Cuba, the Castro administration is on the verge of ‘going to a better place’

On the eve of the global Davos Economic Forum, North American intellectual David Calleo describes his vision of the role Europe plays in globalisation

The CDU is firmly against Turkey’s accession to the EU. Its Turkish-German members are now campaigning for a change of policy

Thousands of Vietnamese are repressed in their home country and are forced to leave Asia and try their luck abroad. For those who choose Poland, the transition is sometimes tough

As trade flourishes between the EU and Asia and regional integration accelerates, the Asian highway opens new routes to the East

As regional integration accelerates in Asia, ASEAN might one day resemble the former EEC. I talked to Ludo Cuyvers, professor of economics at the University of Antwerp, who says such comparisons are premature.

Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to step up deportations of illegal immigrants to 25,000. A network of teachers fights to defend pupils and their families