EU at 50 admired more from afar than from within
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The European Union is an object of admiration and emulation in much of the world, yet it marks its 50th birthday this month little loved at home.
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Europe's Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva celebrates 50 years of its work.
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PARIS  - In Europe, it's hard for some to think of Condoleezza Rice without recalling the low points in transatlantic relations that grew out of the war in Iraq.
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PRAGUE, Jan 24 (IPS) - The enlargement of the Schengen free-travel zone  has been celebrated as an opportunity to reunite Western and  Eastern Europe, but those further east feel it was done at their  expense, and some in the West have not welcomed the change.
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Nearly 600,000 people have come to the UK since the expansion of the EU in 2004, figures are expected to show.
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THE HAGUE, Sep 29  (IPS) - The EU aid package is a large one, but packed also  with paternalism and claims to  domination, development experts  said at the end of an aid conference.
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Switzerland has more centenarians than any other European country, thanks to an improved standard of living and better healthcare and nutrition during the past 50 years, researchers said on Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (IPS) - A floral display of sorts was being assembled to  greet diplomats entering one of the key European Union  institutions Friday morning. Rows of multi-coloured cardboard  flowers, all bearing smiley faces, were starting to throng the  courtyard of Justus Lipsius, the building where meetings of the  EU's 27 governments are held. In their plastic holders, the  fake flowers kept swinging from side to side like hyperactive  pendulums.
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While Bulgaria and Romania were celebrating the European Union's decision to grant them membership next year, other EU hopefuls, including Croatia and Turkey, look likely to suffer from the bloc's growing enlargement fatigue, analysts said.
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In May 2004 the European Union of 15 expanded to 25. It was the most ambitious and challenging enlargement of the European project since the signing of the Treaty of Rome 47 years ago.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (IPS) - European Union officials watched with interest, and  some with dismay, as U.S. President George W. Bush was  inaugurated for a second four-year term at a lavish ceremony  Thursday (Jan. 20).
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Fireworks, cheers  and music greeted the expansion of the EU's border-free zone to  nine mostly Eastern European states on Friday, though some  worry about a rise in crime or illegal immigration.
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Six Europeans give a wide range of views on the European Reform Treaty
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Genoa, Italy, provides a vision of EuropeÂs aging future, displaying the challenges that face a society with more old than young.
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European editorials on Friday had a lot to say about the new European Commission which has now been approved by the EU parliament.
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The European Union's first expansion to Eastern Europe last May -- 10 countries with a total population of 74 million -- seems to be working.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Europe has desired greater unity for decades &#8211; answering Henry Kissinger&#39;s famous question, &quot;What&#39;s Europe&#39;s phone number?&quot;