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A gated community?

Of cover-ups and conspiracy theories... 

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All aboard the CAP bus?

MEPs are feuding over whether to attend next week's last-chance agriculture talks in Luxembourg. 

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Deal struck on long-term budget

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Migration debate requires nuance not ignorance

OECD report takes a balanced view of a sensitive subject.

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Kroes prepares push to revive telecoms reform

Commissioner wants to eliminate mobile roaming charges and change how the sector is regulated.

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Itchy feet in the private offices of the European commissioners are getting itchier.

Past his cell-by date

Perhaps it is just as well that the European Council introduced a permanent full-time president (current holder: Herman Van Rompuy), given what has been happening to the bunch of temps who used to preside over the EU's affairs.

Industrial inaction

The strike called by EU staff unions last Wednesday was not exactly a howling success.

Not the place to be

Maybe the party really is over for the European Union.

MEPs seek to question secretary-general of the Commission

NEWSCatherine Day to be called before budgetary control committee to discuss John Dalli case.

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Commission left in limbo over Iceland negotiations

NEWSForeign minister's visit fails to shed light on referendum on EU membership.

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Parliament to re-vote on backloading

NEWSA revised version of the European Commission's proposal to ‘backload' carbon allowances in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will be sent back to the full Parliament.

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MEPs demand tougher F-gas restriction

NEWSMEPs have voted to ban air conditioners containing climate-harming gases by 2020

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Almunia fines Lundbeck and rivals for fudging competition on medicines

NEWSDanish company is fined €93.8 million for breach of European Union anti-trust rules.

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NEWSDecision would effectively remove Azerbaijan from the Eastern Partnership programme.

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COMMENTWhile EU-Azeri co-operation on energy has flourished, Azerbaijan's human-rights record has deteriorated.

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MEPs call for wide-ranging transaction tax

NEWSEconomic committee backs European Commission position.

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New bid to 'weaken' CAP greening

NEWSEnvironmental campaigners say the CAP reform will not deliver what was promised.

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COMMENTThat really is the question that the EU and G8 face, Oxfam and ActionAid argue.

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EU, US leaders hail trade talks

NEWSTalks on transatlantic free-trade agreement to start in July.

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Deal reached on markets legislation

NEWSMember states reach common approach on overhaul of securities-trading rules.

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Commission launches employment plan

NEWSNational employment services to work together.

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Greek party leaders hold emergency talks on future of state broadcaster

NEWSCoalition partners have criticised prime minister's decision to close ERT.

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Not green with envy

Brussels has failed in its bid to become ‘European Green Capital 2015'.

Lights, camera, inaction

Androulla Vassiliou, the European commissioner for education, culture and sport, found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time last week.

Ashton gets her priorities right

The European Union's diplomatic service has been in turmoil since it was created, so you would have thought that the current disruptions were just the continuation of a way of life.

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EU officials speak out on Turkey.

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