Photo Credit: THOMAS WINJE / AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The bloodthirsty attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway on July 22 last year (leaving 77 dead) provided a brutal awakening for all those in Europe [...]
Viviane Reding says women are running out of patience at being kept out of Europe’s boardrooms. Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features The European Union‘s justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, is expected to set aggressive quotas and timetables on Monday to increase the number of women on the boards of public companies. Speaking to the Guardian before the announcement, Reding [...]
REUTERS A ceremony to mark the launch of the euro coins in Frankfurt in December 2001: The euro was always built on delusions. Since its inception, the euro zone has been built on lies, the most grievous of which is the idea that the common currency could work without political union. [...]
Worshipers are seen through an Iranian national flag as they attend Friday prayers in Tehran, Dec. 30. (Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl) BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union is open to meaningful talks with Tehran provided there are no preconditions on the Iranian side, an EU foreign policy spokesman said on Saturday. Earlier, Iran‘s semi-official Mehr news [...]
REUTERS Britain finds itself all alone in the EU. link http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802933,00.html Was the outcome of the Brussels summit a bad one for the EU? Not at all. The British were never completely dedicated to European unity and the ongoing project of greater fiscal integration is better off without them. It was to be expected. And now it’s [...]
