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The European Central Bank is our best hope in troubled times, even if EU leaders try to use it as a scapegoat for economic ills.
How Europe tries to police Spanish fisheries.
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The Community Fisheries Control Agency opened in Spain this month but faces a daunting task in preventing a collapse in Europe's fish stocks.
Agency ‘not competitive' to the Council of Europe; new boss plans biggest survey of racism victims.
France hopes to strike deal on energy package; national champions versus liberalisation.
Bulgaria told to do more to fight organised crime; Romania can show ‘few tangible results'.
The details of Radovan Karadžić's arrest may be a mystery, but there is no doubt that President Boris Tadić has learnt a lesson and is moving rapidly on every political front.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008Seven years of talks have helped the EU; it needs to lock in those gains.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008Is Dimitris Dimitiadis, president of the European Economic and Social Committee, bound for greater things?
In brief
Commissioner accused of ‘fair-weather' politics; critics seize on change of heart on ratings agencies.
EU member states are set to make big money from selling off the rights to emit carbon dioxide. They are under pressure to spend the proceeds on greener energy.
The only way to bring China on board in the battle against climate change is for the EU and US to team up.
The European Central Bank should be handed a leading role in cross-border banking supervision to foster stability in the financial system.
Trade unions fear rising unemployment; France wants to seal a deal in October.
Inviting Slobodan Milošević's party to join the Serbian government was unavoidable; the dangers it poses may be avoidable.
Household fuel bills will have to rise to twice today's levels by 2020 if the EU is to come even close to cutting greenhouse gases by 20% and obtaining 20% of energy from renewable sources like wind and solar power. That is the conclusion of a study by management consultancy Accenture scheduled for publication at the end of July.
