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The interim agreement on Iran's nuclear programme will apply from 20 January, confirmed, on the evening of 12 January, High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton and Iran's Foreign Ministry [...]

At the beginning of 2014, Kyiv stopped importing gas from the EU, due in part to a fall in the planned consumption of gas in Ukraine, but mainly to the [...]

The president of the European Commission highlighted in the German press, on 10 November, thatá'from an economic point of view it is central for Switzerland to hang on to» its [...]

As EU and US trade officials meet in Brussels for a second round of talks on a new free trade pact, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the lead [...]

ASEM foreign ministers, who met on 11-12 November in New Delhi, India, voiced a shared determination to relaunch this Asia-Europe forum. The success of ASEM - the Asia-Europe Meeting - [...]

An agreement between the EU and Switzerland on electricity is on the right track, Swiss Energy Minister Doris Leuthard said after a meeting with Energy CommissioneráGünther Oettinger in Brussels, on [...]

Beijing is playing an increasingly assertive role on the international scene, and this contrasts sharply with the below-the-radar approach the Communist Party has adopted since the beginning of the country's [...]

Following the death of his predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, on 8 April, British Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his European tour aimed at promoting his proposed EU reform to his [...]

The CIA's past programme to detain terrorist suspects, which formed the focus of a European Parliament inquiry into European governments' complicity with it, is being thrust back into the spotlight. [...]

EU accession talks with Serbia could start in June(1), provided the government keeps the reform process on course, members of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) said in [...]

The European Commission has added the name Gruyère' to the list of protected geographical indications (PGI). Gruyère' cheese with a common Franco-Swiss origin and name is currently protected within the [...]

The European Commission launched, on 4 June, a dialogue on visa liberalisation with Georgia, as a first step towards visa-free travel to the EU for Georgian citizens. The dialogue will [...]

In a letter dated 6 March, the EU's High Representative, Catherine Ashton, agreed to a new round of talks with Iran on its nuclear programme. She failed to mention a [...]

The member states' foreign affairs ministers debated, on 27 February, the adoption of further sanctions against the Belarusian regime, agreeing to add 21 persons to the list of those targeted [...]

The Commission is expected to issue a positive recommendation on candidate status for Serbia in its annual progress report to be issued on 12 October. According to diplomatic sources, Belgrade [...]

The EU's justice ministers sealed a political agreement, on 23 September in Brussels, on a criminal law mechanism to protect victims of violence, in particular battered women, from one EU [...]

Kosovo and Serbia are to resume their EU-facilitated dialogue on 2 September following the summer break, which saw an escalation of tensions in the North of the former Serbian province [...]

The EU and Brazil initialled an ambitious aviation agreement, on 17 March. The agreement ( Open Sky' type) will replace existing bilateral agreements between this country and EU member states. [...]

Everyone is interested in a strong Europe'. In this spirit, during its EU Presidency in the first half of 2011, Hungary will do everything to make Europe 'more modern and [...]

The Hungarian Presidency's main challenge will be overseeing concrete steps by the European Commission to streamline and make more accessible the framework programmes for research. This obviously falls within the [...]

The role of the Presidency in setting the foreign affairs agenda has been considerably limited following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The foreign minister of the country [...]

It is common knowledge that a chicken runs faster once its head is cut off. This witticism is circulating in European corridors as a comment on the Belgian EU Presidency. [...]

The European Union has welcomed the 'calm and orderly' conduct of Kosovo's first parliamentary elections after gaining independence from Serbia in 2008 despite reports of serious irregularities in two municipalities. [...]

Preparations for the December European Council meeting, the citizens' initiative and the Union's enlargement policy will top the agenda of the General Affairs Council, on 14 December in Brussels. The [...]

The Foreign Affairs Council, on 13 December, is expected to concentrate its efforts on the most rapidly changing events in current foreign policy, notably developments in the Middle East peace [...]

Baden-Württemberg and Alsace have launched an innovative Erasmus-style training programme. It will allow trainees enrolled in higher education institutes in both regions to undertake or complete the practical parts of [...]

The EU and India signed, on 10 December in Brussels, an agreement launching a dialogue on culture. The joint declaration talks symbolically of strengthening people-to-people contacts between India and the [...]

The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, on 8 December, joined the chorus of objections to Israel allowing the building of settlements on Palestinian territory, saying these pose [...]

The EU and Russia held, in Brussels on 22 November, a high-level conference to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue. The conference was also planned to discuss [...]

The structure of the new EU-US Energy Council has been sketched out by the US Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Richard Morningstar. Energy security, specifically the role of countries like [...]

Modernisation of the Schengen Information System (SIS II) for the collection and exchange of information between national police authorities remains an 'absolute priority,' reasserted the EU's interior ministers in the [...]

The EU Council of Justice Ministers adopted a formal agreement, on 8 October in Luxembourg, on the directive that guarantees the right of suspects in criminal proceedings to translation and [...]

The European Commission has firmly stood up for Serbia in an ongoing discussion whether to let the country move to the next stage of its EU integration process. Addressing the [...]

Ahead of the ASEM8 meeting in Brussels, the Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Foundation, Dominique Girard, tells Europolitics about his experiences in bringing the Asian and European regions closer together. [...]

Future assistance to Pakistan and preparations for the foreign affairs-themed European Council, on 16 September, will dominate the EU foreign ministers' informal Gymnich meeting, on 10 September. Following a trade [...]

One of the EU's most important strategic relationships concerning the Arctic is with Russia. As the region's climate changes, the potential for both cooperation and conflict is set to increase. [...]

Iceland's accession to the EU presents new ways for Europe to influence developments in the Arctic. Iceland, which was given official candidate status in June 2010, is on the Arctic [...]

A historic veto has been followed by massive approval: predictably, members of the European Parliament adopted, on 8 July in Strasbourg, the new version of the transatlantic agreement on US [...]

The European Parliament has urged the five EU member states that have not yet recognised Kosovo to do so in order to make 'EU policies more effective for all the [...]

The French State Secretary for European Affairs, Pierre Lellouche, was scheduled to meet SNCF President Guillaume Pepy, on 1 June. On 31 May, Lellouche stated that 'France formally disputes the [...]

The European Commission's proposal for a revised directive on security of gas supply is a direct response to the supply crises that Europe faced in 2006-2007 and 2009. Whatever the [...]

New talks on the conclusion of a second Open Sky agreement between the EU and the United States were held, on 25-26 June in Brussels. After their meeting, the two [...]

Inside Iran, repression persists (at least 17 deaths and hundreds of arrests have been reported), but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main rival, Mir Hossein Moussavi, said, on 25 June, that threats [...]

EU citizens no longer need a visa to go on a short trip to six Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands, including Mauritius, the Seychelles and the Bahamas, and vice versa. [...]

The United States is listening and wants a 'partnership' with a 'united Europe' - US President Barack Obama continued, on 5 April in Prague, with his charm offensive with European [...]

The EU and Pakistan signed, on 24 February, a horizontal aviation agreement that will bring into line with Community law the bilateral agreements between this country and 18 EU member [...]

According to the national press, the president of the Czech Senate, Premysl Sobotka, considers a new complaint against the Lisbon Treaty - which his colleagues from the Civic Democratic Party [...]

Between April and October 2009, new appointments will be made for a number of positions of leadership in Europe. The first will likely be the NATO secretary-general's seat. Current NATO [...]

This book examines regional cooperation among the countries in Europe's northern neighbourhood, with an emphasis on the pitfalls and successes of engaging Russia. Drawing from the experiences of northern partnerships, [...]

A visit by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be one of the highlights of the plenary session of the European Parliament, which takes place from 2 to 5 February [...]