EU foreign ministers' failure to agree on Ukraine's status as a "European" country -- a precondition for consideration for EU membership -- places time at a premium, with Ukraine expecting an answer by the fall.
A leaked EU report suggests the bloc is preparing to freeze 1 billion euros in aid money earmarked for Bulgaria over suspicions it is being "siphoned off" by corrupt officials.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic triumph by successfully negotiating an EU summit with other Mediterranean countries. But the jury will remain out for some time on whether the Paris summit will go down in history as a one-off diplomatic coup or as the beginning of something bigger.
European Union officials say a donors conference under way in Brussels will provide at least 1 billion euros for Kosovo.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the EU cannot admit any new member states before the Lisbon Treaty -- rejected last month by Ireland -- comes into force.
A new report from the European Parliament is likely to color the ongoing debate on enlargement among EU member states.
The European Union and Russia held the first round of new partnership talks in Brussels today.
On the eve of talks on a new bilateral agreement between Russia and the EU, President Dmitry Medvedev appears to be following the course set by Vladimir Putin.
French policy-makers were hoping to focus on immigration and defense until Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty left them scrambling to pick up the pieces of constitutional consolidation.
BRUSSELS -- EU leaders have decided to put off until October all decisions on how to proceed after Irish voters rejected the bloc's Lisbon reform treaty last week.
"Common interests" have become buzzwords for the EU as it attempts to get its relationship with Russia off he ground again after some difficult years.
The recent defeat of the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland has pushed the EU into another crisis, which pits two fundamental principles against each other -- those of national sovereignty and of a common European identity.
The EU ship of state has just been holed just above the waterline. While it is unlikely to sink, it could take in water, start listing, and eventually become very difficult to steer.
BRUSSELS -- A group of deputies at the European Parliament have launched a drive to have the EU declare August 23 a European Day of Commemoration of the Victims of Stalinism and <BR>Nazism.
A Polish-Swedish initiative has run into resistance despite receiving broad support among member states.
BRUSSELS -- Senior European Union officials are stepping up efforts to defuse a standoff between Moscow and Tbilisi over Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
Initial reactions to the Eastern Partnership initiative put forward by Poland and Sweden suggest the East is edging out the South in a struggle for recognition among the bloc's neighbors.
BRUSSELS -- The European Union's external relations commissioner has said that the EU will soon address ways of bringing its relationship with Moldova forward.
An new initiative seeks to reinforce the bloc's ties with its eastern neighbors -- with a view to putting at least some of them on the path to membership.
With Lithuania's objections seemingly assuaged, Brussels and Moscow hope they can soon launch long-delayed talks on a strategic-partnership treaty.
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