European minorities torn between worlds
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Nacera Berrouba, a young Algerian in Paris, says she couldn't get the job she dreamed of until she dyed her hair blond.
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The European Commission&#39;s cautious recommendation that Turkey begin membership negotiations puts the country a step closer to realizing its dream of joining Europe - but also sets tough conditions that underscore the gaping divide between this mostly poor
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PRAGUE, Sep 25 (IPS) - The case of an ethnic Hungarian student who claims  to have been attacked by Slovak xenophobes has come to symbolise  the persistent clashes that strain relations between two of the  EU (European Union)'s most unfriendly neighbours.
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The fear here is that the whole of Europe has succumbed to the virus of racism and that new political parties based on some variant of racism will swell in popular support, win elections, run institutions of ...
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AS the 25-member European Union extends outward, it has developed a serious internal problem: it has nearly as many languages as members.
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Muslims' sense of belonging could be eroded by EU nations not tackling discrimination, a watchdog warns.
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When Europe first saw the Turks nearly 1,000 years ago, Byzantine historians believed they had met &quot;the hordes of the Apocalypse&quot;; ten centuries later, Europe's collective memory is still marked by prejudice against this nation now knocking at the EU's door.
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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS The murder of a controversial Dutch filmmaker has reenergized an uncomfortable debate over Europe's relationship with its growing Muslim minority.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 24 (IPS) - Nationalism, corruption, populism and violence are  terms increasingly associated with some of the events seen in the  Central and Eastern European countries that joined the European  Union (EU) in May 2004. But whether there are reasons for concern  is still open to debate.
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Spaniards used to say they lived in one of Europe's most racially tolerant countries. Soccer has shattered that myth. In Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium &#151; the Yankee Stadium of soccer &#151; Spanish fans bellowed out monkey noises last week each time a black English player touched the ball in a match between England and Spain.
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More than half the members of ethnic minorities in Britain believe immigrants should speak English, a survey suggests.
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Europe's newspapers ponder the effectiveness of the UN force in Lebanon, cluster bombs, and the migration of Romanians to the UK
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Papers across Europe remain transfixed by the row over Italy&#39;s nominee for the post of European commissioner. Swiss papers look at the implications of an expected influx of workers from the European Union&#39;s
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The first draft of a new EU treaty can now be read in French and English, but what it means for the EU's half a billion people is not yet easy to determine.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings -- along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings -- have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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For both the desperate and the more affluent, the thought of a better future in Europe has permeated Senegalese society.
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Paul Binder, TARGET International Executive Search director for central Europe (PB): Most of the fears of a mass migration from the new EU member states were not justified and I think they will not be fulfilled ...