LABOUR-EU:   Only A Few East Europeans Go West
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BRUSSELS, Sep 17 (IPS) - When Marek and his wife Ania, both unemployed  Polish nationals in their thirties, left their home country for  Denmark on May 1 -- the day of EU enlargement -- they hoped to  get dream jobs and start on a new life.
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More than half a million people found work in the 13 nations that use the euro during the first three months of the year, the European Union's statistical agency said Wednesday.
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Big-name Western bands head to Eastern Europe.
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Eastern Europeans who have no plans to settle in UK often change their minds within months of coming here, according to new research.
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Bulgarians are impatient for results from their EU membership, five months after joining, Nick Thorpe reports.
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.
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Since identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski shot to power in Poland last year, the EU newcomer has become the bloc's enfant terrible _ deepening ties with Washington and displaying Euro-skepticism on ...Comment
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Europe is struggling to kick the Windows habit. Eurocrats make a lot of noise about moving to Linux, but the actual migrations are few and far between. Bruce Gain reports from Paris.
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Russia is backsliding on democracy and  the EU must take Moscow to task while bringing other former  Soviet republics closer to the West, the bloc's incoming  External Relations Commissioner said Tuesday.
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Europe is home to an estimated 7 million to 9 million Gypsies, also known as Roma. In a major effort to help one of Europe's largest, poorest and fastest-growing ethnic minorities, leaders of many Central and Eastern European countries are vowing to address their problems.
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Russia is backsliding on democracy and  the EU must take Moscow to task while bringing other former  Soviet republics closer to the West, the bloc's incoming  External Relations Commissioner said on Tuesday.
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As Western Europeans head back to the office after their customary monthlong August vacations, they're finding more than just overflowing in-boxes. Their much-cherished short workweeks are under attack.
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Frontiers in east Europe once  guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell  away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined  the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.
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poor Balkan country, already struggling to stay on track in its drive to join the European Union. just three percent ahead of the centrist alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties.
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Fifteen years ago, geography lessons were simple for young Europeans. They learned that the European Union's border ended at the Iron Curtain that separated East and West Germany for more than four decades.
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Â· Poll finds support rising for EU membership  Â· Labour up a point to 35%, Tories down two to 37%
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.