Britons accused of committing crime in Europe should not be sent abroad to languish in prison for long periods before going on trial, a report on extradition law says... more
Family and friends of a cyclist killed in a road accident are going to Strasbourg to lobby for a change in European law that will force all new trucks to be fitted with the latest blind-spot equipment... more
European taxpayers will have to stump up £85 billion in the next 50 years to pay for the fat-cat pensions of Brussels civil servants, says a study for the European Commission... more
The EU warns governments against banning the wearing of burkas in public, saying it would infringe the human rights of women who want to wear a face veil... more
Gordon Brown today abandoned his strategy of ignoring the far-Right British National Party amid fears that it will achieve a breakthrough in the European elections this week.... more
Alistair Darling admitted that there would be no "overnight fix" to the recession as questions remained over banks' toxic assets and the size of the global economic stimulus... more
President Obama’s message to European leaders at the Nato summit in Strasbourg has gone straight to the heart of the biggest dilemma facing the organisation, today celebrating its 60th birthday: what to do about Afghanistan... more
Barack Obama has warned that Europe is at greater risk than the US of attack by al Qaeda as he sought to bury past differences with France in fighting terrorism... more
The jubilant mood created by the G20 summit agreements yesterday was rapidly replaced this afternoon by a grim appreciation of the extent of the world’s economic troubles as US unemployment soared to its highest since 1983... more
Gordon Brown is in a desperate political situation at home and has gone abroad as he wants to be seen to be taken seriously, a leading BBC broadcaster claimed... more
Critically and commercially, 2008 has been good for foreign movies and next year looks even better. From a Korean spaghetti western to a Danish war film, expect the unexpected.... more
Thomas Adès's first full-scale opera, The Tempest, returns to Covent Garden as an assured, fully matured work with many of the reservations evident on first hearing banished.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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