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Europe's Centralising Dynamic Must Be Checked The Financial Times 23 Mar 2005
From Prof Roland Vaubel on behalf of the European Constitutional Group.
Sir, The signatories...
Leaders Back Changes To Services Directive The Financial Times 23 Mar 2005
Jacques Chirac, French president, last night won backing from European Union leaders for a signi...
Solana To Mediate in China Arms Ban Dispute The Financial Times 23 Mar 2005
Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy representative, is set to take a leading role...
A Cheney Candidacy in 2008? The Washington Times 23 Mar 2005
President Bush famously rewards loyalty and competent service. There is one more promotion logic...
EU Chief Blames The French Elite For Treaty Problems The Daily Telegraph 22 Mar 2005
The president of the European Commission yesterday launched a scathing attack on the ruling clas...
Lending the Good Loan The New York Times 22 Mar 2005
In the days since President Bush announced the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secreta...
A Chance to Lift the 'Aid Curse' The Wall Street Journal 22 Mar 2005
Foreign aid, after years of disregard, is back in business. At the World Economic Forum in Davos...
The Bush Shake-Up-the-World View The Wall Street Journal 22 Mar 2005
When the rumor erupted in the press recently that Carly Fiorina, the deposed CEO of Hewlett-Pack...
Tory Revival Runs Into The Sand The Guardian 22 Mar 2005
Gordon Brown's budget has halted the Tory revival in its tracks and stretched Labour's opinion p...
ECB Fears Threat To Confidence In Public Finances The Financial Times 22 Mar 2005
The European Central Bank yesterday reacted with alarm to the deal on revising the European Unio...
UK, Germany, France and US Face Junk Debt Status in 30 Years - S&P The Financial Times 21 Mar 2005
Rapidly rising pension and healthcare spending will reduce the debt status of the world's riches...
Chirac Told To Speak Up As Tide Turns For No Vote The Financial Times 21 Mar 2005
President Jacques Chirac of France was under pressure last night to get more involved in campaig...
UK First in Europe For Contributions The Daily Telegraph 21 Mar 2005
Britain may have overtaken Germany to become the biggest net contributor to the EU, the Treasury h...
The Corporate Message To Europe's Leaders The Financial Times 21 Mar 2005
The European Union, it is amply recognised, suffers from a gulf of understanding between rulers ...
UN General Assembly to Hear Annan Overhaul Plan Reuters 21 Mar 2005
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan awaited government reactions Monday for sweeping reform propos...
Brown Ousts Milburn As Election Supremo The Business 20 Mar 2005
Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, will emerge victorious this week from a six...
Brown In £35 Billion Tax Hike The Sunday Times 20 Mar 2005
Taxes will go up by £35 billion over the next four years under Labour, according to Gordon Brow...
Why Britain Lost Its Way In Technology The Business 20 Mar 2005
In 1965, Barnes Wallis, the legendary British air vehicle designer immortalised in the film Damb...
Brussels Fears Growing French Euroscepticism The Financial Times 18 Mar 2005
Tensions between Paris and Brussels intensified yesterday as José Manuel Barroso, the European C...
Schröder Tries To Kick Start Germany The Daily Telegraph 18 Mar 2005
Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, yesterday initiated an emergency raft of reforms aimed ...
The Rivals: Washington's Sway in Asia is Challenged By China The Financial Times 18 Mar 2005
The Asia that Condoleezza Rice is surveying this week on her first trip to the region as USsecre...
'Maybe I Was Brave But Anyone Could Do The Same' The Times 18 Mar 2005
Armoured vehicle driver saved the lives of his comrades under heavy fire on two occasions.
...
A New Deal For The Poor The Spectator 18 Mar 2005
In spite of this week’s election Budget, the lowest earners will continue to pay the highest rate ...
They Will Call Us Hypocrites The Wall Street Journal 17 Mar 2005
Those European governments that are apparently bent on lifting the European Union's arms embargo...
Deutschland Unter Alles? The Wall Street Journal 17 Mar 2005
Today German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder will meet with opposition leaders Angela Merkel and Edm...
Brown Courts Grey Vote In His Memorial Budget The Times 17 Mar 2005
Gordon Brown handed pensioners £200 off their council tax and free bus travel yesterday as he wo...
Wolfowitz Nomination A Shock For Europe The Financial Times 17 Mar 2005
President George W. Bush's decision yesterday to nominate Paul Wolfowitz as the next president o...
EU Orders 'Bonfire Of The Diktats' The Daily Telegraph 17 Mar 2005
The European Commission launched a blitz against costly red tape yesterday, admitting that 900 d...
The Birth of Europe The Guardian 17 Mar 2005
Our challenge to the anti-Europeans is: where's your story of the future?
Over the last fortn...
Failure To Implement Lisbon Could Cost EU Dear: Study EUBusiness 17 Mar 2005
A new study on 'The economic cost of non-Lisbon' has warned that failure to implement the reform...
EU To Discuss Impending Demographic Crisis EUObserver 17 Mar 2005
No country in the EU currently has a birth rate sufficient to renew its population, according to...
Pentagon Has Far-Reaching Defense Spacecraft in Works Washington Post 16 Mar 2005
Bush Administration Looking to Space to Fight Threats
The Pentagon is working to develop a ...
Bush's Vision for Space Means Big Cuts Elsewhere at NASA Washington Post 16 Mar 2005
At Least 14 Facilities, Thousands of Jobs Threatened
President Bush's ambitious strategy for...
Reform Relaunch By EU Likely To Fall Flat The Financial Times 16 Mar 2005
The European Union's economic reform relaunch next week looks set to fall flat, its liberal mess...
A British No Would Destroy More Than The Treaty The Financial Times 16 Mar 2005
If opinion polls are a fair guide, all European Union countries will ratify the new constitution...
Europe's China Flip-Flop The Wall Street Journal Europe 16 Mar 2005
In the standoff between the United States and Europe over lifting the Tiananmen Massacre arms em...
Many Scientists Fear Bird Flu Cases Exceed Data Los Angeles Times 16 Mar 2005
Minimal reports from Laos and Cambodia and unreliable test results elsewhere suggest that the viru...
U.S. Report Lists Possibilities for Terrorist Attacks and Likely Toll The New York Times 16 Mar 2005
The Department of Homeland Security, trying to focus antiterrorism spending better nationwide, h...
Four in 10 Voters Want Tax and Spending Cuts The Financial Times 16 Mar 2005
More than four in 10 voters believe spending and taxation should be cut, according to an opinion p...
Reform Is Needed, Not Higher Public Spending The Financial Times 16 Mar 2005
Gordon Brown, the chancellor, is right to emphasise the challenges and opportunities created by ...
Brown Digs In To Defend Britain's £7bn EU Rebate The Daily Telegraph 15 Mar 2005
Gordon Brown dug in against Brussels last night, in an attempt to preserve his Budget sums from ...
EC's 'Sordid Accounting' Damned In Email From Top Auditor The Daily Telegraph 15 Mar 2005
The European Commission has a "chronically sordid" accounting system and is still unable to keep...
Straw Calls For New Arms Trade Treaty EPolitix.com 15 Mar 2005
Jack Straw has called for an international agreement to restrict the trade in conventional weap...
If Crime's On The Up, Your Police Chief Must Explain Why - Or Be Sacked The Times 15 Mar 2005
Airports make me feel uncomfortable. And it’s nothing to do with flying. What I find particularl...
U.S. May Sell F-16s To India, Pakistan The Wall Street Journal 15 Mar 2005
Policy Shift Would Signal Tacit Acceptance of Rivals'
Possession of Nuclear Arms
Secretary o...
Looting at Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Iraqi Says The New York Times 14 Mar 2005
In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed ton...
Revealed: Israel Plans Strike On Iranian Nuclear Plant The Sunday Times 14 Mar 2005
Israel has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if dip...
Pandemic Fear As Bird Flu Infects Nurses The Sunday Times 14 Mar 2005
Health experts are watching the spread of deadly bird flu among humans with increasing concern a...
US Calls Halt To Sinn Fein Fundraising In IRA Backlash The Times 14 Mar 2005
The US Government has banned Sinn Fein from fundraising following White House anger over the IRA...
Brown's Spending Spree Threatening UK Growth The Business 14 Mar 2005
Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, has embarked on an unsustainable spending spree th...
Letwin Promises £2bn Tax Cuts For Low-Paid Workers The Independent 14 Mar 2005
The Conservative Party will direct most of its remaining £2.7bn of promised tax cuts at the low ...
As Blair and Howard Fight To The Finish, Bin Laden Smiles The Sunday Telegraph 14 Mar 2005
In a week of stiff competition, the silliest remark about the Prevention of Terrorism Bill was m...
French Vote On EU Threatens To Tear Apart Socialist Party The Independent 14 Mar 2005
The main French opposition party, the Socialists, risks being torn apart by France's referendum ...
Minister To Placate US Over EU Move To Lift China Ban The Business 14 Mar 2005
The UK's defence procurement minister Lord Bach will this week attempt to limit the expected bac...
Europe's Leading Role In The Spread Of Democracy The Financial Times 14 Mar 2005
The point of politics is to change things. Across the Middle East we are seeing lots of potentia...
The Role Of The European Court The Times 14 Mar 2005
From Professor Alan Dashwood
Sir, In the difference of opinion about the European Court of ...
Rumsfeld Details Big Military Shift In New Document The Wall Street Journal 11 Mar 2005
Drive for Pre-emptive Force, Wider Influence Will Trigger
Changes in Strategy, Budget
Defens...
EU Economy 'At Same Level As US In Late 1970s' The Financial Times 11 Mar 2005
The European Union's economy is today where the US economy was in the late 1970s, according to a...
Terror Laws In Disarray As Suspect Is Let Out Of Prison The Times 11 Mar 2005
Eight of the terror suspects held at Belmarsh and other prisons for the past three years are exp...
U.S. and European Allies Agree on Steps in Iran Dispute The Times 11 Mar 2005
Europe and the United States have agreed on a joint approach to negotiating with Iran over its n...
Brown Poised To Highlight Labour's £35bn Spending Plans Over Tory Cuts The Financial Times 10 Mar 2005
Gordon Brown is set to use next week's Budget to highlight how a re-elected Labour government wo...
How To Get Away With Murder The Times 10 Mar 2005
We've had enough of the Government's breathtaking hypocrisy. Sinn Fein-IRA terrorists must pay...
...
Those Subtle Chinese The Washington Post 10 Mar 2005
For the past few months I've been hearing from a bevy of China experts about how subtle and bril...
Rule Of Law In The European Union The Times 10 Mar 2005
From Mr Jonathan Faull
Sir, Mr J. E. Morgan (letter, March 3; see also letters, March 8) ref...
Secession Law Strains Ties The Wall Street Journal 9 Mar 2005
Beijing's new anti-secession law can hardly fail to exacerbate existing tensions in U.S.-China r...
Peers Tell Brussels To Give Back Cash From EU Budget The Times 9 Mar 2005
Britain gets a worse deal from the European Union, paying more money in and getting less out, th...
U.S. Urges China To Rethink Taiwan Law CNN 9 Mar 2005
The Bush administration has labelled as "unhelpful" a Chinese law authorizing the use of militar...
EU Attempts To Reform Stability Pact Break Down The Financial Times 9 Mar 2005
Marathon talks on reforming the European Union's budget rules broke down in acrimony yesterday, ...
Data Is Lacking on Iran's Arms, U.S. Panel Says The New York Times 9 Mar 2005
A commission due to report to President Bush this month will describe American intelligence on I...
What Hath Ju-Ju Wrought! The Weekly Standard 9 Mar 2005
In the Middle East, the Democratic Genie is out of the Bottle...
Have the Iraqi elections p...
Tough Love for the U.N. The Wall Street Journal 8 Mar 2005
According to press reports, Secretary General Kofi Annan has been holding high-level private con...
Let Us Be Partners The Wall Street Journal 8 Mar 2005
When President Bush was in Europe, he made it quite clear that he wanted to revitalize the trans...
Democracy, Yes, But That's Only a Start The Wall Street Journal 8 Mar 2005
Two recent news photos send a dual message. One is of protesters in Beirut demanding that Bashar...
Clock Ticking on Fusion Decision BBCNews.com 8 Mar 2005
Europe has made it clear it will not wait beyond June to reach international agreement on where...
America Will Respond The Wall Street Journal 8 Mar 2005
Republican and Democrats in the U.S. Congress rarely agree on anything. However, the normally fr...
China's Barrier To Independence Infuriates Taiwan The Guardian 7 Mar 2005
Protesters fear Beijing may use anti-secession law to justify military action
A bill against...
Jet Delay Leaves Navy's Carriers All At Sea The Times 7 Mar 2005
The Royal Navy’s future aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will go to sea for two years withou...
Germany Told Slack Fiscal Controls Pose Threat To Euro The Daily Telegraph 7 Mar 2005
German-led plans to relax the rules of the EU's Stability and Growth Pact risk undermining marke...
Tory Policy On Europe Worries Sir Digby The Financial Times 7 Mar 2005
Politicians must exploit the "very pro-British" mood in Brussels, the CBI's chief has said in an...
Fit To Compete? The EU Renews Efforts To Get Its Economy Moving More Swiftly The Financial Times 7 Mar 2005
Five years ago, the European Union's leaders suffered their own collective version of irrational...
Germany's Past Poised To Return The Business 6 Mar 2005
Anyone who thought the German economy was performing so badly that it could only get better will...
The EU's Judicial Land Grab The Business 6 Mar 2005
When the British are asked what they think about the proposed European Constitution, they regula...
China’s War Talk On Taiwan Heightens British Arms Feud The Sunday Times 6 Mar 2005
Britain is facing an increasingly acrimonious argument with America over military exports to Chi...
Government Leaves UK Defenceless Against Flu Threatening To Kill 500,000 The Independent on Sunday 6 Mar 2005
Indecision and delay exposes Britons to the full risk of the bird flu virus.
Britain will be ...
China And Japan Launch Race To The Moon The Guardian 5 Mar 2005
Tokyo blasts back after setback in Asian space race as old enemies plan ambitious projects targeti...
Labour 'Sleepwalking' To Referendum defeat The Daily Telegraph 5 Mar 2005
Roger Liddle has always been at the heart of the New Labour Project. A friend of Peter Mandelson...
Iran Accuses IAEA Of Leaking Nuclear Secrets The Financial Times 4 Mar 2005
A senior Iranian security official accused the International Atomic Energy Authority yesterday o...
Regional Assembly Campaigners Spent £400,000 And Lost The Times 4 Mar 2005
Groups backing the unpopular North East Regional Assembly spent at least £400,000 on their campa...
The Road to Damascus The Washington Post 4 Mar 2005
Revolutions do not stand still. They either move forward or die. We are at the dawn of a gloriou...
The Associated Press Iran Is Said To Build Atom Storage Tunnels 4 Mar 2005
Facility would be resistant to an attack
Iran is using reinforced materials and tunneling de...
Europe Risks US Sanctions Over China Arms Sales The Guardian 3 Mar 2005
America and Europe were yesterday being drawn ever closer into a trade war after senior US congr...
Minister's Line On ECJ Under Attack The Times 3 Mar 2005
From Mr Jonathan Morgan
Sir, The Minister for Europe shows a lamentable understanding of the...
Europe 'Must Spend More On Defence' The Financial Times 3 Mar 2005
The diplomat at the centre of the biggest transatlantic dispute in years, over the Iraq war, has...
Licence Fee Reprieved For Ten Years - And No-One Else Gets A Slice Of £2.8bn The Times 3 Mar 2005
Culture Secretary's Green Paper rejects proposals to bring in outside agencies
The BBC won a ...
Labour Must Prevent The Disaster Of A Referendum Defeat The Independent 2 Mar 2005
Labour cannot afford to let the case for Europe go by default. Lose on Europe and we lose one of...
Rwanda: A Story Too Terrible To Believe The Times 2 Mar 2005
The silence of those who knew about the massacres speaks eloquently of the world’s indifference
...
High-Tech Weapons Help Europe To Close Military Gap With US The Times 2 Mar 2005
The European Union is to develop unmanned drones, new armoured vehicles and advanced communicati...
IMF Casts Doubt On German Economy The Financial Times 2 Mar 2005
Draft report cuts eurozone growth forecasts
Germany's economic prospects have deteriorated...
Ramifications of EU Constitution The Times 2 Mar 2005
From Sir Christopher Meyer
Sir,
Lord Rees-Mogg’s depiction of the contrasting British a...
Iraqi Insurgency Is Weakening, Abizaid Says The Washington Post 2 Mar 2005
Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said yesterday that the stren...
All Quiet on the Eastern Front? The Wall Street Journal 1 Mar 2005
The United States in recent months has been preoccupied with the Middle East and with the near-t...
German Jobless Highest Since 1930s The Financial Times 1 Mar 2005
German unemployment shot up to 5.2m last month, its highest level in 73 years, dragging Europe's...
The Cost Of Not Caring About Europe The Financial Times 1 Mar 2005
On one thing, the eurosceptics are right. Much of British business has fallen out of love with B...
“We Are Witnessing The Last Remnants Of National Politics” Cafe Babel 1 Mar 2005
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the Spanish Foreign Minister and Special Envoy to the Middle East for seve...
It May Be Too Late To Save Them Now, But The Agenda Is Going The Tory Way The Times 1 Mar 2005
“Politics is not about personalities,” Tony Benn used to remark, “it’s about the issues.” Sadly...
Up with Europe. Down with the European Union. The National Post 1 Mar 2005
“Does America really want a strong Europe?” In the week leading up to President Bush's European...
EU Diehards 'Ready To Gang Up' On Britain The Daily Telegraph 1 Mar 2005
Plans have been drawn up to create an ad-hoc "core" of countries determined to pursue closer int...
The Decline Of Europe And The Choice For UK The Business 28 Feb 2005
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama announced The End of History and the triumph of Anglo-American liberal...
Role of European Court of Justice The Times 28 Feb 2005
From the Minister for Europe
Sir, Camilla Cavendish claims that “we know nothing” of the ju...
Early French Vote On EU Constitution The Guardian 28 Feb 2005
The great and the good of France will put on a grand display of Gallic unity in the symbolic set...
Are We Fools Led By Liars? The Times 28 Feb 2005
The EU constitution makes tough reading, but its meaning - and its danger - couldn't be clearer
...
Pressed, Iran Admits It Discussed Acquiring Nuclear Technology The New York Times 28 Feb 2005
s the International Atomic Energy Agency prepares to open a meeting today to review Tehran's nu...
Winner Takes All Time Magazine 28 Feb 2005
Spain said yes, but the game's not over until the E.U. constitution clears at least nine more vote...
BAE Demands Immunity On US Sanctions The Sunday Times 27 Feb 2005
BAE SYSTEMS, Britain's biggest defence group, is pushing the British government to split with Eu...
Worried You Don't Understand The Rules Of The Euro Game? You'd Be More Worried If You Did The Independent 27 Feb 2005
The constitution enshrines into law two areas of EU governance which have been completely discre...
Australia Helps Share The Task of Rebuilding Iraq The Wall Street Journal 25 Feb 2005
One of the most inspiring images of recent years has been Iraqis holding aloft their fingers wit...
EU Constitution Will Ensure UK Place At Top Table In Europe The Financial Times 25 Feb 2005
From Mr Anthony Nelson and others.
Sir, Patricia Hewitt, the trade and industry secretary, ...
EU Trade Chief Urges More Evidence From China On Arms Ban, Market Status EUBusiness 25 Feb 2005
European Union trade chief Peter Mandelson Thursday called for better evidence from China that p...
Putin: I’ll Be A Democrat – Almost The Times 25 Feb 2005
President Bush extracted a pledge from President Putin last night that Russia would never return...
Canada Rejects Missile Shield Plan The Washington Post 25 Feb 2005
Decision Is a Snub to Bush, Who Had Sought Partnership
Canada announced Thursday that it has...
China's Focus On Galileo Pinpoints US Security Fears The Financial Times 24 Feb 2005
Beijing's involvement in Europe's rival navigation service to GPS has Washington chiefs worried, w...
Bush Enthusiasm May Boost Pro-Treaty Campaign The Financial Times 24 Feb 2005
President George W. Bush's newfound enthusiasm for working with a "strong and united" European ...
Euro Vision The Wall Street Journal 24 Feb 2005
As president of the European Central Bank, I am struck sometimes by the European inclination to ...
The Agony And Extase The Guardian 24 Feb 2005
Next time Caesar comes visiting in Brussels, can Europe speak with one voice?
To watch Presid...
Labour's Lead Cut As Asylum And Immigration Top Voters' Concerns The Financial Times 24 Feb 2005
Labour's lead in the opinion polls has been cut to just two percentage points in the past month,...
The Next Bush Project: Save Russia From Itself The Wall Street Journal 24 Feb 2005
The question that hangs over tomorrow's summit meeting between George Bush and Vladimir Putin in...
Hewitt Admits Business Is Sceptical On Europe The Independent 23 Feb 2005
Patricia Hewitt will tell sceptical British businessmen today that Tony Blair is planning to "hi...
Bush Reiterates Opposition to EU On Arms to China Wall Street Journal Europe 23 Feb 2005
President Bush warned European nations that their plan to end a 15-year-old ban on arms sales to...
Don't Sell Arms to China Wall Street Journal 23 Feb 2005
George W. Bush is in Europe in the wake of historic victories for democracy in Iraq, Afghanistan...
Bush and Chirac Reopen Wounds The Times 23 Feb 2005
Twelve hours after sharing an intimate lobster risotto and proclaiming an end to their Iraq war ...
Bush Tries To Allay E.U. Worry Over Iran Washington Post 23 Feb 2005
Notion of U.S. Attack 'Is Simply Ridiculous'
President Bush said Tuesday that concern about ...
Billions 'Wasted' On Public Services The Daily Telegraph 23 Feb 2005
Tony Blair is wasting the extra billions of pounds he takes from taxpayers by pumping it straigh...
Revealed: The Rush To War The Guardian 23 Feb 2005
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq tha...
EU Chief Dampens Mood of Entente With Bush The Daily Telegraph 22 Feb 2005
The EU's foreign policy chief cast public doubt on the health of the transatlantic partnership y...
Atlanticist Small Talk Is All That's Left The Daily Telegraph 22 Feb 2005
"The change for the moment is more in tone than substance," wrote Alec Russell, reporting on Pre...
British Arms Firm Will Spurn China If Embargo Ends The Times 22 Feb 2005
Britain's largest defence company, BAE Systems, will not sell arms to China if the European Unio...
Europe's Invisible Masters The Times 22 Feb 2005
As he dodges between the forked tongues and canapés in Brussels, George W. Bush can be thankful ...
Czechs Far From Certain To Back New Constitution The Financial Times 22 Feb 2005
The blue and gold European Union flag flutters proudly over the Czechg overnment buildings huddl...
Bush Says Russia Must Make Good on Democracy The New York Times 22 Feb 2005
President Bush warned Russia on Monday that it "must renew a commitment to democracy and the rul...
Tories Gain Ground On Labour The Guardian 22 Feb 2005
Poll puts parties just 3 points apart, as Blair fails to regain confidence
Labour's opinion p...
Explaining the War The Wall Street Journal Europe 22 Feb 2005
President George W. Bush kicked off his European tour yesterday with a predictable call for tran...
Strong Europe Essential For World Peace, Declares Bush The Times 21 Feb 2005
President Bush will today call on Europe to join the United States in a “new era of transatlanti...
Spanish Apathy Bodes Ill For Yes Campaign The Guardian 21 Feb 2005
It was fitting that King Juan Carlos should have been among the first people to vote in yesterda...
Peter Mandelson: He's Refreshed, He's Doing 'The Job Of His Life' - But He Won't Rule Out A Return To British Politics The Independent 21 Feb 2005
The Monday Interview: European commissioner for external trade
On the ninth floor of the Euro...
Arms Trade With China Will Cost Us Dear The Business 21 Feb 2005
Slowly but surely, the Atlantic Ocean is getting wider: continental drift, caused by forces deep...
Britain Is The Key To Bush Project Of Flexible Europe The Business 21 Feb 2005
In the lead-up to President Bush's European tour this week, there has been feverish speculation ...
Pentagon Set To Warn Of Increased China Threat The Financial Times 21 Feb 2005
The Pentagon is preparing to ratchet up its assessment of the threat of an expanding Chinese mil...
Tories Pledge Lower Council Tax For Pensioners Guardian Unlimited 21 Feb 2005
Pensioners would see an average of £340 cut off their annual council tax bills under a Conservat...
Flirting With Armageddon: Welcome To A New Arms Race The Observer 20 Feb 2005
The threat of nuclear strikes is now greater than during the Cold War, report Paul Harris in New Y...
Directors Will Not Take Sides On EU Vote The Business 20 Feb 2005
The Institute of Directors (IoD), one of Britain's leading employer groups, says it will not be ...
Disunited States of Europe The Business 19 Feb 2005
The launch of the euro is still failing to bring about economic convergence across the euro zone...
Bush Interview: 'I Will Be Straightforward. I Don't See How You Can Deal With People If You Aren't' The Daily Telegraph 19 Feb 2005
The walls of the Roosevelt Room are plastered with memorabilia of the first presidential holder ...
Why The EU Constitution Is Bad For Britain And Bad For The US The Daily Telegraph 19 Feb 2005
In the stern old pre-Vatican II days, Roman Catholics used to be instructed not to read the Bibl...
CBI Chief Accuses Bush and Chirac of Hypocrisy Over Poor The Guardian 18 Feb 2005
Sir Digby Jones, the CBI's director general, launched a stinging attack on EU and US protectioni...
Why Bush Won’t Back Howard The Spectator 18 Feb 2005
When George W. Bush arrives for his European visit next week, a special ceremony will be laid on...
Our Foreign Policy Made In Brussels? Washington Is Warming To The Idea The Times 18 Feb 2005
Listen carefully. That unfamiliar noise you hear coming out of Washington is the sound of the B...
EU To Shut Our Embassies The Sun 18 Feb 2005
All of Britain’s 153 embassies across the globe will be shut if we adopt the European constituti...
Japan to Join U.S. Policy on Taiwan The Washington Post 18 Feb 2005
Growth of China Seen Behind Shift
The United States and Japan will declare Saturday for the...
Russia's Nuclear Deal With Iran Raises Middle East Temperature The Times 18 Feb 2005
Russia defied stern American warnings yesterday to announce that it had agreed to start shipping...
In Europe, New Force for Recruiting Radicals The Washington Post 18 Feb 2005
Ansar al-Islam Emerges as Primary Extremist Group Funneling Fighters Into Iraq
When robbers ...
How Long Can The Eurozone Region Continue To Tolerate Slow Growth? The Independent 17 Feb 2005
The eurozone slowdown has become quite alarming - and all the more so for being unexpected and c...
Attitude to EU Will Take 'Decades' To Change The Financial Times 17 Feb 2005
It will take "decades" to change attitudes to Europe, according to an internal government memo t...
EU Constitution Ballot May Produce Regional Rift Bloomberg 17 Feb 2005
Nobody will stay up late biting their fingernails this weekend as the votes are counted in Spain...
U.S. Tensions With Syria Escalate Washington Post 17 Feb 2005
White House Weighs Punitive Economic and Political Measures
After decades of tension with Sy...
Syria, Iran Form 'United Front' The Washington Times 17 Feb 2005
Syria and Iran formed an impromptu alliance yesterday by announcing a "united front" against eco...
An Alliance Of Conflicting Priorities The Financial Times 17 Feb 2005
When George W. Bush arrives in Brussels next week, he will try to convince European allies to su...
War Helps Recruit Terrorists, Hill Told The Washington Post 17 Feb 2005< |