New EU states attacked over graft
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The European Commission will criticise newest members Bulgaria and Romania for failing to curb corruption.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria  - Moscow warned Western nations  on Tuesday against interfering in Ukraine and other ex-Soviet  republics and Washington and the European Union accused Russia  of a heavy-handed approach to its neighbors.
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German President Horst Koehler sparks a row with comments on giving aid to the  poorer eastern states.
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The European Union's new member states are falling behind in their drive towards joining the euro, the European Central Bank warned on Wednesday.
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Some laud moves with the two nations. Others are suspicious.
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ISTANBUL, Dec 1 (IPS) - Turkey's controversial move towards European  Union membership has drawn strong opposition within several  member states, but a bigger obstacle now emerges by way of a tiny  new member of the club: Cyprus.
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EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has warned that a Swiss rejection of a 1.0 billion Swiss franc (638 million euros) fund to support new eastern and southern members of the European Union would be a bad sign for Europe.
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Syria has accused the European Union of hypocrisy for criticizing its human rights record while several member states are under investigation for allegedly abetting a network of secret US prisons.
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Like moths to a nightlight, the European Uniona s 10 new member countries are attracting new manufacturing companies from across Europe.
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EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels reacted with outrage to reports of irregularities in the election, which they said failed to meet international standards.
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The European Union's aid programme is criticised for being slow, inefficient and poorly targeted by think tank Open Europe.
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Wine producers from new European Union members in central and eastern Europe say that EU&#39;s plans to reform the wine sector will come at their expense and could have &quot;dramatic&quot; implications.
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Several European dailies today focus on the role of international troops in Afghanistan as clashes with the Taleban intensify. Elsewhere, French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy comes under fire, EU expansion comes under scrutiny and an Austrian daily fears that Muslim schools in Europe could be forced underground.
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'Something must be done,' MEPs thunder Carousel and VAT fraud is far outstripping Europeans' traditional financial fiddles on EU funds, prompting MEPs to call on the European Commission to overhaul its anti-fraud operation to combat the problem.â¦
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FRANCE, Germany and Spain signalled a new alliance yesterday to strengthen the European Unionâs political project as a counterbalance to the United States after the re-election of President Bush.
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The enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 member-states with nine new languages has created a kind of linguistic big bang in Brussels, with new headaches for intepreters.
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The deployment of European troops to Lebanon and Afghanistan comes under the spotlight and there are mixed views on how the EU should deal with a national unity government in the Palestinian territories. In Austria and Germany, papers are dismayed at a fall in the number of students receiving university degrees.