How the stimulus bill affects the United States economy

2010-11-04T14:33:09Z

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U.S. and E.U. grapple with crunch in rare earth supplies

2010-10-26T20:31:11Z

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Math-e-Mangles at the White House Spin Machine

2010-11-03T00:18:55Z

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Action Alerts from the National Anti-Vivisection Society

2010-09-16T17:02:54Z

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Cap on non-EU migrants next month

2010-06-26T03:15:51Z

Britain will begin capping the number of non-European Union migrants coming into the country to live and work for the first time next month, a Home Office source said on Saturday.

Just 24,100 workers will be allowed in between next month and April 2011 -- a five percent cut on the number who arrived in the same period last year.

The aim is to prevent a sudde...

Late surge may give Slovak right election victory

2010-06-12T01:15:12Z

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovaks went to the polls on Saturday to choose between economic liberals whose reforms led Slovakia into the European Union and the outgoing leftist government, which has taken a tough line on protecting workers.

Three final pre-electio...

PIGS Provide Cautionary Tale For U.S. Reform

2010-10-27T06:45:49Z

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Biden moves to warm up US-Spanish relations

2010-05-08T12:15:31Z

US Vice President Joe Biden, on the highest-level US visit to Spain since 2001, Saturday paid tribute to the Spanish contingent in Afghanistan as he sought to formally bury years of thorny ties with Madrid.

"My country is proud and gratef...

Biden on highest-level US visit to Spain since 2001

2010-06-12T14:22:11Z

US Vice President Joe Biden met Spain's King Juan Carlos on Friday at the start of the highest-level US visit to the country in nine years.

Biden travelled to the royal Zarzuela palace after arriving in

US supports Greek aid: White House

2010-04-23T09:15:56Z

The United States supports Greece's application for aid from the IMF and European Union to solve its debt crisis, White House spokesman Spain expresses disappointment that Obama will not attend EU-US summit

A senior Spanish official expressed disappointment Tuesday that President Barack Obama will not be attending an EU-US summit in Spain and hope that the meeting can be rescheduled.

"I think the U.S. administration is and must be aware...

Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010

2010-06-12T16:09:49Z

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Global financial regulation has changed little since the 2008 banking crisis, but that won't be the case much longer.

U.S. and EU authorities are expected to hammer out the final shape of a new regulatory order in 2010 that will fundamentally change how world banks and markets operate.

Stricter limits on leverage and capit...

U.S. to propose 17 percent emissions cut in Copenhagen

2010-06-25T19:37:05Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 at a U.N. climate change meeting in December, the White House said on Wednesday.

Obama's negotiating position for the talks in

EU: US should spell out long-term climate goal

2010-06-25T19:38:00Z

EU urges US to spell out long-term climate goal, says climate deal hinges on US, China

The United States should be ready to spell out its long-term vision for reducing carbon emissions over the next two decades, not just until 2020, the European Union said Tuesday.

With two weeks to go before a global...

Biden calls for bigger security role for east Europe

2010-04-16T09:42:03Z

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called on central and east European states on Thursday to become more involved in fighting security threats and work closer with their former Soviet bloc peers outside western alliances.

The United States is ke...

Obama to host EU-US summit in November

2010-04-16T09:48:03Z

US President Barack Obama will host the leadership of the European Union for a summit on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and the global economy in early November, the White House

EU Joins Justice Department's Investigation of Google

2010-10-24T09:59:03Z

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Social Welfare and Its Discontents

2010-10-26T20:56:44Z

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Support for Iran rallies 'cannot be justified'

2010-04-16T11:45:11Z

Iran's European Union envoy hit out Thursday at international backing for supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, saying it "cannot be justified."

"The foreign support for these trouble-makers and anarchists under the cover of supporting democracy and the voice of the Iranian people raise...

The Year 2014, World and USA Projection ? Part I

2010-10-14T12:09:42Z

Hasan Yahya, PH.Ds
The United States of America will prevail, in the Year 2014 as it was in Clinton times. Futurists are busy in their projections worldwide. The most important for us Americans is future of the United States, locally, internationally, and globally.
Locally: there are two important areas where most futurists bring projections. In my projection, the political and the economic areas. Internationally, however diplomacy and co...

EU agrees deal on accepting Guantanamo detainees

2010-04-16T11:57:48Z

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European Union states agreed on Thursday to share information on former detainees they plan to accept from Guantanamo Bay, a move that should help Washington close the center.

Czechs tighten security before Obama's visit to Prague for EU-US summit

Sharpshooters scouted out positions on Prague's red tile rooftops and police stepped up patrols across the Czech capital Saturday as authorities tightened security for President Barack Obama's weekend summit with leaders of European Uni...

US lawmaker: Allies should help with Guantanamo

2010-06-26T01:41:26Z

The United States should keep the prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay open and pressure its European allies into jointly running the facility, a key US lawmaker said Thursday.

"I believe Guantanamo Bay should be kept open and managed with international participation," Representative Peter Hoekstra

Obama to pick diplomat to help close Guantanamo

2010-04-16T16:06:41Z

The Obama team hopes to pick the top US diplomat on Europe to help close the Guantanamo Bay prison, a US official said Wednesday as Washington looks to European capitals to take in some prisoners.

Dan Fried, the outgoing assistant secretary of state for European a...

Biden warns of 'deteriorating' Afghan situation

2010-04-16T16:08:41Z

Biden assures allies of US commitment to NATO; cites 'deteriorating situation' in Afghanistan

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged NATO members Tuesday to jointly confront al-Qaida and other extremist groups in Afghanistan where he said instability threatens all of the allianc...

US pledges to 'energise' ties with Europe

2010-10-13T14:05:23Z

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Friday to "energise" ties between the United States and Europe, turning a page on past tensions fuelled by Washington's war on Iraq.

"President (British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he will head to Washington this week hoping to secure President Barack Obama's backing for a "global grand bargain" to save the world economy.

"As part of the grand bargain the whole world must agree, as Europe has done,...

Iranian opposition celebrates losing EU 'terror' tag

2010-04-16T17:22:02Z

The exiled Iranian opposition on Tuesday celebrated being taken off the EU's terror list and called for the United States to do the same, arguing it is Tehran that should be sanctioned.

"The European Union has conceded to the rule of law," Maryam Rajavi, the preside...

EU to Obama: make Middle East peace a priority

2010-04-16T13:46:30Z

EU to new US administration: make Middle East peace a priority, don't "start from scratch"

The European Union's external relations commissioner says the new U.S. administration should make the Middle East peace process a priority and build upon progress made so far.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Friday that he hoped that US president-elect Barack Obama tackles the Arab-Israeli peace process as soon as he assumes office on January 20.

"I think that that process will require much more of a dynamic," Solana told reporters on a visit to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Wednesday voiced European enthusiasm for Barack Obama's White House victory, saying the US president-elect was "a more colorful man than usual" who won a "global election."

"The election of a more colorful man than usual, who brings a different image to this A...

EU sees Obama victory as chance to work together

2010-06-26T00:44:22Z

European Union calls Obama victory a chance to join forces in a 'new deal for a new world'

European Union officials hailed Barack Obama's election victory Wednesday as an opportunity to renew a tenuous trans-Atlantic relationship and join forces in "a new deal for a new world."

They invited the incoming U.S. president to address the 27-nation b...

Brown denies European banks rescue mechanism on meeting agenda

2010-06-26T02:24:46Z

Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied Friday that a European bailout mechanism for banks was on the agenda of a weekend meeting of the leaders of Europe's four biggest economies.

"The suggestion that there is a fund about to be formed across Europe ... there is no currency in that," he told a news conference.

French Eco...

Mixed fortunes for bank stocks

2010-10-21T10:24:25Z

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Eurogroup head voices relief at US Senate vote on bailout

2010-06-26T02:26:34Z

The chair of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday he was very relieved that the US Senate had adopted a plan to bail out the banking sector.

"I am very relieved that the Senate hurdle has been passed," Juncker told Deutschland...

PM attends EU credit crunch summit

2010-10-21T10:24:24Z

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EU Set to Cut Biofuel Target to Just 6%

2010-10-21T09:04:55Z

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Soundbites

2010-10-16T19:38:00Z

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Some US allies seek more visa waivers

2010-10-13T14:02:02Z

Bush, Lawmakers Hope to Expand Visa-Free Travel Program Further for Bypassed Allies

Boguslaw Inderka, a Polish technician, boarded his flight from Warsaw to New Jersey with some resentment.

He was leaving just days after President Bush signed a law that expands a program allowing visa-free travel to the <...

Hungary Power Politics

2010-12-29T06:30:59Z

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2010 file photo, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for a EU summit in Brussels, Belgium. Hungary's democratic credentials are under scrutiny as it prepares to assume the EU presidency Saturday, with some crit...

Belgium Europe Financial Crisis

2010-12-23T09:30:49Z

Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. European Union leaders are changing the treaty that underpins the bloc to make room for a huge new rescue system for countries that get into debt trouble in the long term. But they aren...

China EU

2010-12-20T22:00:14Z

European Commission Vice President in charge of competition policy, Joaquin Almunia, center, speaks at the 3rd EU-China High-level Economic and Trade Dialogue at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Tuesday Decem...

Europe Financial Crisis

2010-12-17T09:32:36Z

File - In this May 7, 2010 file photo French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, meets with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, left, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, during an EU summit at the EU Counci...

Belgium EU Chocolate Rabbit

2010-12-17T03:31:56Z

FILE - In this March 15, 2006 file photo, chocolate rabbits from the Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli are seen on display in Kilchberg, Switzerland. As of Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, chocolate rabbits, mice and reindeer remain free to roam, unshackled by trademarks, after the European Union's highest court ruled against chocolate producers that wanted to claim the dainty sweets as ...

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