Europe leaders lavish with faint praise
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GEORGE Bush&#39;s closest allies in Europe greeted his re-election as a boost to the war on Islamic extremism but most European leaders barely managed to conceal the sense of disappointment they shared with most of the public across the continent.
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The General Assembly of the United Nations and George Bush&#39;s speech dominated European editorials on Wednesday. Some papers commented on Germany&#39;s chances of getting a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
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European opponents of the U.S. invasion of Iraq joined other world leaders yesterday in cautiously praising the Iraqi national elections as a necessary first step toward establishing democracy and restoring ...
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Tony Blair's visit to the Middle East and his plans for a 2005 London conference on reform in the Palestinian Authority get a muted welcome in the regional press.
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Â· French, German and Italian leaders meet BrownÂ· Barroso urges 'targeted and proportionate' action
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Despite the world's rapt attention to its meetings, OPEC gatherings mean very little.
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Finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich or emerging countries have wrapped up a two-day summit in Berlin without making explicit reference to the sagging value of the US dollar against the euro.
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Top foreign officials across Europe are either accepting or welcoming the second term for President Bush. Meeting in Moscow, Italian prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they welcome the Bush win.
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Most European Union nations are doing little to report incidents of racism or discrimination, the EU's racism monitoring agency said Tuesday.
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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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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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As Greeks get a boost, it remains unclear if success will mean higher stature in Europe. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (IPS) - European Union officials were this week branded  "slow" and "lazy" in addressing discrimination  faced by the Roma community, the continent's largest  transnational minority.
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A week after thousands of European holidaymakers went missing in Asian killer waves, hope was fading that they will ever be found but European countries were giving generously to alleviate what British Prime Minister Tony Blair called a "global catastrophe".
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WASHINGTON Usually, an election victory improves a politician&#39;s popularity. But polling numbers overseas show President Bush is disliked and his re-election was a significant disappointment to most Europeans.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown sought Friday to shake off accusations that he is lukewarm on Europe, during his first EU summit in Brussels.
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BERLIN, Dec 20 (IPS) - For the European Union, 2007 was a year rich in  events, but poor on results. Next year promises to be as  turbulent as this one, and probably as unremarkable in its  outcome.