By Nina Maria Potts Brussels 05 April 2007 Watch Biofuels report The EU is emerging at the forefront of the fight against climate change. Pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and boost renewable sources, EU politicians seem keener than e...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 25 March 2007 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned European Union leaders that they will make a historic failure if they do not agree on a time table for the adoption of an EU constitution. Ms. Merkel spoke in Berlin at t...
By Noel King Khartoum 13 January 2007 The international community is continuing its push for a political solution to the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. The European Union's special representative to Sudan says efforts are under way to sign holdout...
By Michael Bowman White House 08 January 2007 The U.S. and Europe agree on the need to promote global trade by successfully concluding the Doha Round of world trade talks. But during talks in Washington, U.S. President George Bush and the visiting E...
By Teri Schultz Brussels 07 January 2007 European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and other top commissioners are heading to Washington D.C. to urge the Bush Administration to make compromises necessary to successfully conclude the stalled...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 29 November 2006 A new report by the European Parliament accuses some European governments of being aware of alleged CIA abductions, transportation and detentions of alleged terrorist suspects. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports th...
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 24 November 2006 Russia and the European Union were unable to start negotiating a key trade deal when at a meeting in Helsinki Friday, after Poland blocked progress due to Russia's ban on its meat imports. We hear more from VO...
By Sabina Castelfranco Tripoli 23 November 2006 Ministers of the African Union and European Union Thursday ended a conference on migration and development in the Libyan capital Tripoli with a declaration blaming poverty for migration. Sabina Castelf...
By Sabina Castelfranco Tripoli 22 November 2006 European and African nations met in Libya on Wednesday to seek ways to stem the rising tide of illegal migration. The Libyan foreign minister, Abd al-Rahman Shalgam, told the conference that EU countri...
By Jim Teeple 26 October 2006 Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief held talks Thursday with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Mr. Solana says Mideast peace efforts are stalled. ----...