Europe Seeking New Role in World Affairs
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The 25-member European Union &#151; now comprising eight ex-communist nations and considering membership for Muslim-dominated Turkey &#151; is busily crafting a "Wider Europe" as well.
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European allies alienated during President Bush&#39;s first four years in power offered yesterday to let bygones be bygones, saying they want to work with the new administration and seeking
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Differences over trade, energy, human rights and international policy look set to mark the EU-Russia summit.
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The United Nations is asking Europe to send more troops and military support to the world&#39;s hot spots, particularly in Africa.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27  (IPS) - The new EU member states will soon take lessons in  development cooperation from  developing countries.
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Come Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy will likely be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, parliament and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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US President George Bush's re-election prompts some in the European press to urge Europe to reform itself in response.
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MUNICH, Germany  - German Chancellor Gerhard  Schroeder called for a shake-up of key transatlantic bodies  such as NATO on Saturday, saying the dialogue between Europe  and the United States needed refreshing.
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The Bush administration is reaching out to European allies for a possible new push for peace in the Middle East if Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is replaced by more
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Year 2005 can be interesting for the world economies. While America is busy in Iraq, Vladimir Putin is positioned to take control of the world as another superpower.
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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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Forging a common EU foreign policy is an ambitious project, the BBC's Paul Reynolds reports.
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The European Union may not be very good at creating jobs and producing goods people want to buy, but when it comes to setting up high level working groups and churning out reports, it is a world leader.
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Long considered something of a junior partner among Europe's elite nations, Italy is carving out a hefty role in world affairs. Rome is contributing the largest contingent to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, has claimed a role in negotiations with Iran and is rallying European governments around the idea that Italy can form a counterweight to American might.
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Though European leaders are about to sign a new treaty, the event has been dubbed a diplomatic vanity trip and an environmental extravagance
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A European gateway to the Middle East. A boost to the European Union's chances of matching American clout.
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In Europe, it's hard for some to think of Condoleezza Rice &#151; Colin Powell's expected replacement as U.S. secretary of state &#151; without recalling the low points in trans-Atlantic relations that grew out of the war in Iraq.