Fanfare for bigger border-free EU
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Celebrations are taking place to herald the enlargement of the Schengen zone to include nine more EU countries.
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European editors Wednesday had a lot to say about joining the EU in general and specifically about Turkeyâs bid. Other dailies commented on Donald Rumsfeld&#39;s revelation that there was no link between Iraq and al Qaeda.
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The urgent need to reinforce border controls to prevent thousands of illegal immigrants from entering the European Union will be at the top of the agenda when EU justice and interior ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday. The ministers are expected to agree on measures to strengthen border controls in a bid to reduce the number of illegal entries to the bloc each year, but the question of funding will be paramount to any decisions taken.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union's top f
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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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With ten new members added into the fold and a new draft constitution working its way through capitals for ratification, the European Union (EU) is in the midst of unprecedented political and geographic ...
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The European Union's approximation, boosting employment and strengthening the companies' position at the external market, are the part of achievements that Macedonia could feel if it is a part of the UN ...
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Trade, apart from peace and prosperity, is always held up as the great EU success story. If only the EU could get its act together in other areas, such as foreign affairs, it would be a global power, the argument runs.
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"What is Schengen? It is not criminality, it is not uncertainty, it is not fear, it is a big space of security and stability"  By Martin DokoupilPETRZALKA, Slovakia  - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white frontier barrier on Thursday in symbolic preparation for nine new countries joining the EU's border-free zone at midnight.Austria's Alfred Gusenbauer and Slovakia's Robert Fico stood either side of the pole on their common frontier working a double-handled saw, heralding what many see as a final lifting of the Iron Curtain between the former Soviet bloc and the West. Read more
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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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GÃ¼nter Verheugen, the German who has been the European Union&#39;s commissioner for enlargement since 1999, was in an optimistic mood last April.
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European leaders will seek to reassure sceptical voters at a summit starting on Thursday by toughening policy on enlargement of the European Union, without though slamming the door on a queue of aspiring ...Comment
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BRUSSELS -- In a historic move that could extend Europe's borders to the edge of the volatile Middle East, the European Union recommended yesterday setting mostly Muslim Turkey on a course for full membership in the prosperous 25-nation bloc.
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Support for Britain's membership of the European Union is rising, according to a poll published Saturday, confounding popular opinion about the extent of Euroscepticism here.
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Today's unveiling of the new Airbus A380 receives a warm welcome in the press - which is more than can be said for plans to water down the rules governing the single European currency.
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Europe's papers look ahead to today's signing of the new EU constitution in Rome
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The European Union added a fresh arm to its fast-growing military and police machinery yesterday, launching a fighting &quot;gendarmerie&quot; for quick deployment to trouble spots all over world.