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WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe
 
The European Union

     

26 June 2008
EU parliament agrees to strengthening of Fortress Europe

13 June 2008
Two truck drivers killed as European and Asian fuel protests spread

The European Union's Return Directive strengthens "Fortress Europe" against immigrants

11 June 2008
Fuel protests sweep across Europe

On "farewell tour" of Europe: Bush steps up threats against Iran

2 June 2008
Fuel price protests spread across Europe

7 May 2008
The EU strengthens "Fortress Europe" against migration due to climate change

19 April 2008
IMF and OECD: Europe will be hit hard by US recession

14 April 2008
European Court of Justice supports cheap wages and limits the right to strike

4 April 2008
Bush snubbed at NATO summit

1 April 2008
US-backed assault on Basra ends in humiliation for Maliki government

24 March 2008
US steps in to prevent collapse of gas pipeline project
Nabucco pipeline bypasses Russia

13 March 2008
Tensions between France and Germany intensify over foreign and economic policy

13 February 2008
NATO security conference: US demands more European troops in Afghanistan

14 December 2007
European Union treaty signed at Lisbon: A constitution in all but name

7 December 2007
Despite US intelligence shift:
European powers back continued sanctions against Teheran

Amid global financial instability: China-EU trade tensions intensify

8 November 2007
The European Union, railway privatisation and the attack on workers' living standards

1 November 2007
European Union clears final hurdle to postal privatisation

27 October 2007
European Union leaders agree to treaty in Lisbon

13 October 2007
Nobel Prize for Al Gore: "Old Europe" fires back at the Bush administration

More migrant deaths as Europe tightens border controls

18 July 2007
Tensions between NATO and Russia escalate

7 July 2007
The Galileo Project: European plans for global navigation supremacy

27 June 2007
Brussels treaty reveals divisions in the European Union

22 June 2007
German-Polish conflict dominates EU summit

11 June 2007
Europe's carbon-trading scheme
Corporate bonanza fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

30 May 2007
Six months after entering the EU
Political crises deepen in Romania and Bulgaria

19 May 2007
European Union-Russia summit a diplomatic debacle

21 March 2007
Dispute over US missile plan
German foreign minister warns against return to the Cold War

17 March 2007
Planned US missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic intensify European tensions

1 March 2007
Airbus workers in France, Germany strike against massive job cuts

13 February 2007
Russian President Putin lambastes US foreign policy

7 February 2007
Tensions mount between US and Europe over war threat against Iran

24 January 2007
European Union announces new energy strategy

12 January 2007
European press reacts negatively to Bush proposals on Iraq

10 January 2007
Russian oil pipeline interruption intensifies struggle for raw materials

4 January 2007
Social inequality on the increase in Germany and Europe

20 December 2006
Deep divisions dominate European Union summit

16 December 2006
European disillusionment over the Baker-Hamilton report

1 December 2006
NATO summit in Riga: Sharp conflicts over Afghanistan

27 November 2006
European powers seek to benefit from Bush's Middle East setbacks

15 November 2006
European reaction to Bush's election defeat: increasing militarism

31 August 2006
Europe to send 7,000 troops to Lebanon

19 August 2006
European Union ministers use terror scare to justify more anti-democratic measures

17 August 2006
European powers press to intervene in Lebanon

15 August 2006
The "European Left" calls on European powers to intervene in Lebanon

3 August 2006
Manoeuvres and appeasement: Europe's response to the US-Israeli war against Lebanon

27 July 2006
Rome conference on Lebanon
Appeasement 2006: Europe capitulates to American-Israeli aggression

21 July 2006
Europe's inability to counter US-Israeli war policy

22 June 2006
European Union-US summit in Vienna Europe's leaders close ranks with Bush

14 June 2006
Canary Islands boat people: European Union creates new border patrol

9 June 2006
Council of Europe says 14 governments complicit in CIA renditions

23 May 2006
European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions

10 May 2006
Cheney's speech will deepen divisions in Europe over energy

29 April 2006
Amnesty International documents European complicity in secret US rendition programme
Part 2: Collaborating with CIA kidnappers

28 April 2006
Amnesty International report exposes European complicity in secret US rendition programme
Part 1: The fate of three Yemenis

26 April 2006
Gazprom threat increases tensions in Europe

13 April 2006
Desperate African immigrants risk crossing to Canary Islands

6 April 2006
Europe's energy crisis sharpens antagonisms with Russia

5 April 2006
National tensions at EU summit centre on energy demands

20 March 2006
Europe: antiwar protests draw largest numbers in London and Rome

15 March 2006
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class--Part Three

14 March 2006
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class--Part Two

13 March 2006
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class--Part One

Bird flu threat grows in Europe and Africa

4 March 2006
Opel chairman warns of plant closure in Europe

13 February 2006
Berlin and Strasbourg protests oppose the EU-Bolkestein Directive

11 February 2006
The Bolkestein Directive
The struggle against European Union attacks requires a socialist perspective

8 February 2006
Death toll mounts in worldwide protests against anti-Muslim cartoons

Munich Security Conference: Imperialists close ranks

4 February 2006
European media publish anti-Muslim cartoons: An ugly and calculated provocation

2 February 2006
Council of Europe report reveals European collusion with US torture flights

20 January 2006
More evidence of European collaboration with CIA torture flights and prisons

18 January 2006
European-wide dock workers strike against port deregulation

23 December 2005
EU budget talks reveal mounting European conflicts

17 December 2005
Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights

9 December 2005
European governments make their peace with Washington on abductions, torture

German Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices

7 December 2005
Bush, Rice defend US abductions, torture, secret prisons

6 December 2005
Rice defends illegal "renditions," threatens to reveal European collaboration in US crimes

2 December 2005
Kidnapping, detention, torture: US "renditions" scandal embroils whole of Europe

15 November 2005
After the deaths in Ceuta and Melilla
European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees
Part 2

9 November 2005
After the deaths in Ceuta and Melilla European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees
Part 1

18 October 2005
EU in crisis over Turkish membership

10 September 2005
EU states downplay risk as bird flu spreads toward Western Europe

3 September 2005
Shock, disbelief and anger
Europe reacts to US hurricane disaster

7 July 2005
Europe in crisis
Editorial of the Gleichheit, journal of the SEP, Germany

29 June 2005
Whatever happened to "new" Europe? Britain and new eastern EU members at loggerheads over budget

24 June 2005
Blair threatens European parliament: "change or die"

22 June 2005
Blair steps up campaign against "old Europe"

21 June 2005
Budget conflict splits European Union

16 June 2005
Sharp conflicts precede European Union summit

6 June 2005
European Union: political lobbyists oppose disclosure

2 June 2005
The Netherlands: decisive "no" vote on European constitution

1 June 2005
European Constitution rejected
The political consequences of the French "no" vote

30 May 2005
French electorate rejects European constitution

27 May 2005
At Paris meeting on eve of vote
French Socialist Party leaders slander "no" voters in referendum on EU constitution

26 May 2005
French referendum on European constitution: the official debate

25 May 2005
Vote "no" in French referendum on European constitution
For the United Socialist States of Europe

21 March 2005
Europe: tens of thousands protest on second anniversary of Iraq war

Brussels: workers from East and West demonstrate for a "social" Europe

18 March 2005
Unite European workers and youth against militarism and social reaction

26 February 2005
Bush in Germany: smiles cannot mask US-European conflicts

24 February 2005
Bush in Brussels: US steps up threats of wider Mideast war

23 February 2005
Spain: record abstention in referendum on European Union constitution

22 February 2005
Bush in Europe: tensions boil beneath talk of transatlantic unity

21 February 2005
Trans-Atlantic tensions over EU plan to lift arms embargo on China

19 February 2005
Vote "no" in Spanish referendum on European Union constitution

15 February 2005
US secretary of state offers Europe a "partnership"

7 February 2005
Secretary of State Rice's tour
US-European rift deepens over Iran

6 January 2005
European Union continues to build a "fortress Europe"

23 December 2004
European Union agrees on terms for membership negotiations with Turkey

17 December 2004
Conflict over arms embargo at EU-China summit

1 December 2004
Two years after the Prestige disaster, new sea pollution measures blocked

12 November 2004
Crisis of the European Union commission overshadows signing of EU constitution

9 November 2004
Reactions to Bush win reveal growing US-Europe rift

26 October 2004
London: lessons of the European Social Forum

26 August 2004
New European Commission dedicated to free market offensive

22 July 2004
European governments make an example of Cap Anamur refugees

15 July 2004
The EU's eastward expansion--the cases of Romania and Bulgaria

9 July 2004
European Council approves software patents

3 July 2004
NATO summit underlines US-European tensions

1 July 2004
Lessons of the European elections

29 June 2004
Bush's European visit: opposition from the people and prostration by their leaders

21 June 2004
Divisions predominate despite agreement on European constitution

18 June 2004
London meeting: European elections "a sea change in political life"

15 June 2004
European governments rocked by EU election results

11 June 2004
NATO expansion and the political crisis in Europe--Part two

10 June 2004
NATO expansion and the political crisis of Europe--Part one

18 May 2004
The consequences of EU eastward expansion
Siemens of Germany shifts jobs and cuts wages

14 May 2004
No to the European Union--Yes to the United Socialist States of Europe
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)


France: Amiens meeting discusses SEP campaigns in Europe and US

8 May 2004
German SEP candidate in the European elections: “For full democratic and social rights for all refugees and immigrants”

1 May 2004
The consequences of eastward expansion of the European Union

24 April 2004
Cyprus: referendum on the Annan Plan

20 April 2004
The social consequences of European Union expansion

13 April 2004
After the Madrid bombings
Moves toward European-wide police-state methods

1 April 2004
On eve of Poland's entry into the EU
Polish prime minister resigns amid mass opposition to social devastation

31 March 2004
European antitrust case finds against Microsoft

27 March 2004
Election statement of German SEP: For the United Socialist States of Europe

European Union extends transport network into accession states

21 February 2004
Berlin summit: Blair, Schröder, Chirac press for accelerated “reforms”

7 February 2004
German Socialist Equality Party to stand in European elections

28 January 2004
Paris and Berlin consider military intervention in Iraq

17 December 2003
National tensions sink agreement on European Union constitution

6 December 2003
German Greens conference supports eastward expansion of European Union

27 November 2003
European Union to deport immigrants

8 November 2003
European poll identifies Israel and US as greatest threats to world peace

23 October 2003
Washington warns EU over NATO unity

14 October 2003
Rome conference on EU constitution reveals intra-European conflicts

10 October 2003
Portuguese government criticised for failure to tackle forest fires

7 October 2003
Air France/KLM merger heralds further rationalisations and job cuts

4 October 2003
Countdown to Poland's entry into the European Union

3 October 2003
Baltic states vote reluctantly to join European Union

19 September 2003
Swedish "no" vote on euro deepens crisis in Europe

13 September 2003
Vote no in the Swedish euro referendum

12 September 2003
Paris, Berlin react to Bush's speech
Europe lays down conditions on Iraq

14 August 2003
Hundreds die in European heat wave

13 August 2003
European Union prepares its energy security

23 July 2003
Thousands of refugees perish on European Union borders
United network documents nearly 4,000 deaths in 10 years

16 July 2003
Berlusconi and Europe

10 July 2003
An exchange on the proposed constitution for Europe

27 June 2003
European Union sends troops to Congo
First independent EU military mission

20 June 2003
EU expansion worsens Portugal's economic crisis

18 June 2003
Attac holds G8 counter-summit in Geneva

17 June 2003
European Union plans drastic restraints on right to asylum

4 June 2003
G8 summit protesters denounce US occupation of Iraq
On-the-spot report from Thônex-Vallard

US-Europe tensions grow as Washington talks down the dollar

28 May 2003
Socialisation of losses, privatisation of profits
Metaleurop: The ugly face of European capitalism

3 May 2003
Summit of Four in Brussels
Schröder and Chirac pledge their allegiance to Washington

19 April 2003
European Union summit: France, Germany seek rapprochement with US

10 April 2003
A major step for European militarism
EU takes over NATO's mission in Macedonia

24 March 2003
Millions march in Europe against Iraq war

15 March 2003
European Commission and US Customs deal
US authorities gain access to international air travellers' personal data

10 March 2003
Britain's Jack Straw warns Europe not to anger the US

19 February 2003
EU summit agrees on war against Iraq as a "last resort"

15 February 2003
US right-wing media, politicians spit out anti-French venom

13 February 2003
Iraq war splits NATO

25 January 2003
How to deal with America? The European dilemma

11 January 2003
European fishing industry in crisis

28 December 2002
EU intensifies collaboration to deport refugees

13 December 2002
EU summit in Copenhagen
Eastward expansion intensifies social antagonisms in European Union

6 December 2002
Europe: Thousands protest plans for US-led war against Iraq

4 December 2002
Prague NATO summit: internal tensions near the breaking point

21 November 2002
Iraq war dominates NATO summit in Prague

20 November 2002
Massive security crackdown at Prague NATO summit

19 November 2002
US pressure provokes fissures in European Union

12 October 2002
Opposition to war grows across Europe

12 September 2002
OECD study shows growing gulf between rich and poor

10 September 2002
Behind German Chancellor Schröder's opposition to war on Iraq

Britain: Blair spurns popular opposition to back US war vs. Iraq

5 September 2002
European Union foreign ministers divided on Iraq war

22 August 2002
European Union seeks to dampen separatist pressures in Montenegro

21 August 2002
Flood catastrophe in Europe

22 July 2002
Trans-Atlantic tensions worsen over agricultural policy

16 July 2002
Corporate Europe follows the Enron model

5 July 2002
EU summit steps up attack on refugees and foreigners

4 July 2002
Washington demands impunity
US pushes Europe to the brink on international court

20 June 2002
European Union plan to restrict immigration

11 June 2002
European parliament approves anti-privacy laws

30 May 2002
Eastern European workers to pay the cost of membership in European Union

European Union grants temporary stay to exiled Palestinian militants

25 March 2002
EU summit in Barcelona: silence over US war plans against Iraq

20 March 2002
Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism
Part 2

A revealing decision by the European Union economic summit

19 March 2002
Massive protest against European Union summit in Barcelona

Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism
Part 1

27 February 2002
European Union takes united action against Zimbabwe

26 February 2002
Funding for Airbus military transport sparks conflicts in Europe

15 February 2002
European foreign ministers attack Bush's policy

7 February 2002
International Security Conference in Munich exposes growing NATO tensions

1 February 2002
Europe reacts nervously to Bush's State of the Union speech

8 January 2002
What does the euro mean for the working class?

3 December 2001
Russian airlift to Afghanistan highlights underlying US-Europe tensions

16 October 2001
Anti-war demonstrations in Europe

25 September 2001
European Union to restrict civil liberties

4 September 2001
European Union extends investigation of Microsoft

21 June 2001
US and Europe split on GE takeover of Honeywell

19 June 2001
Bush's European tour signals fracturing of Atlantic Alliance

18 June 2001
Three demonstrators shot, hundreds arrested at Göteborg EU summit
European leaders demand harsher police action

14 June 2001
Record low turnout in Irish referendum returns "No" vote for European Union expansion

13 June 2001
Lionel Jospin's "Euro speech": European integration process falters

6 June 2001
European Parliament concludes Echelon electronic spy network does exist

26 May 2001
Economic slowdown in euro zone

11 May 2001
Surprise interest rate cut by European Central Bank

10 May 2001
UN human rights vote fuels US-Europe conflict

2 May 2001
European Union expands eastward and reinforces its borders

18 April 2001
ECB interest rate decision opens up a financial rift

13 April 2001
Europe rearms

15 March 2001
Trade barriers go up as foot and mouth disease spreads to France

8 March 2001
Europe's foot and mouth disease outbreak was foreseeable and preventable

1 March 2001
Foot and mouth disease spreads throughout Europe

28 February 2001
Blair-Bush meeting highlights growing rift between US and Europe

31 January 2001
Germany utilises BSE crisis to implement EU plans to restructure agriculture

26 January 2001
Mounting evidence points to poisonous legacy of NATO's depleted uranium munitions

23 January 2001
BSE/"mad cow disease" crisis spreads throughout Europe

9 January 2001
Depleted uranium responsible for cancer among Europe's Balkan troops

3 January 2001
Sweden strives to deepen EU penetration of Baltic states

28 December 2000
The political crisis in the US: its implications for Europe and the world
Editorial of Gleichheit, journal of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany

16 December 2000
Europe's right wing media gloats, while liberals' fear discrediting of US democracy following Supreme Court verdict

13 December 2000
European Union summit in Nice increases weight of larger countries

7 December 2000
European Union summit in Nice shrouded in controversy

30 November 2000
How Europe views the American electoral crisis

27 November 2000
Political warfare erupts in Britain over plans for European Army

7 November 2000
European Central Bank intervention does little to boost euro

30 September 2000
Denmark: Referendum rejects euro heightening Europe's currency crisis

26 September 2000
Danger of global crisis sparked G7 euro intervention

23 September 2000
Fuel tax protests continue in Spain--nothing settled in rest of Europe

20 September 2000
Right-wing politics dominate Danish Euro referendum

Hormones in the environment: how the facts were covered up

18 September 2000
Europe's fuel tax protests begin to recede

15 September 2000
European Union lifts sanctions against Austria
A blank cheque for Jörg Haider

13 September 2000
The Adriatic: a "Sea of Tears"
Increasing death toll of refugees trying to reach Italian coast

12 September 2000
Fuel protests escalate throughout Europe

31 August 2000
Hostile bid for London Stock Exchange from Sweden's OM Group

11 July 2000
Chirac's European vision unleashes controversy in France

10 July 2000
European Union to investigate US-run satellite spy network
France launches independent probe into Echelon

26 June 2000
European summit in Portugal
European Union proceeds with plans for independent military entity

21 June 2000
Franco-German summit agrees to close military and political cooperation

10 June 2000
Critique of Kosovo War urges European powers to unite against US

5 June 2000
Prisons: a booming industry in the US and Europe

2 June 2000
Clinton's tour overshadowed by US-European tensions

24 May 2000
Danish Social Democrats vote for entry into European single currency

19 May 2000
Britain gives missile contract to European consortium

16 May 2000
The merger of the Frankfurt and London stock exchanges

15 April 2000
Amnesty International report widespread human rights abuses in Europe

12 April 2000
Revelations about Echelon spy network intensify US-European tensions

15 March 2000
Europe and America compete for British missile contract

23 February 2000
European Union annual report: signs of growing racism and xenophobia

22 February 2000
The European Union's sanctions against Austria

18 February 2000
Ford Europe unveils restructuring strategy

8 February 2000
European Union: restrictive asylum policy costs lives

5 February 2000
The Austrian ultra-rightist Haider and Europe

4 February 2000
OECD study highlights widespread and persistent poverty in Europe and America

25 January 2000
Thousands of jobs to go in European banking

15 January 2000
Risk of Mad Cow Disease growing throughout Europe

29 December 1999
Europe ravaged by record storms--more than 100 dead

14 December 1999
Helsinki summit marks aggressive turn by Europe

Frankfurt intends to "go it alone" in creating pan-European stock exchange

10 December 1999
Britain demands swift action against France over beef ban

26 November 1999
Anglo-French summit takes further step towards European military independence from America

30 October 1999
Trade war over beef between Britain and France

13 September 1999
Belgian Foreign Minister criticises US role in Africa

3 September 1999
European governments turn against asylum-seekers

29 June 1999
Labour's European election debacle raises the spectre of the class divide in Britain

26 June 1999
The European Union elections and the German far-right

23 June 1999
European elections seen as prelude to general election in Spain

17 June 1999
Britain's Blair and Germany's Schröder present a joint programme: "The Third Way/Neue Mitte"

Elections show Denmark split on European Union

16 June 1999
European elections: Greek vote reflects widespread hostility to NATO bombing

15 June 1999
Social democrats suffer record losses in European elections

11 June 1999
British Tories in discussions with Italian neo-fascists

9 June 1999
Run-up to the European elections
Danish government lays ground for growth of racist party

8 June 1999
Dioxin contamination scandal hits Belgium
Effects spread through European Union and beyond

5 June 1999
Europe moves towards independent military role

1 June 1999
Falling euro a symptom of wider problems

31 May 1999
Belgium's Flemish fascists, the Vlaams Blok, seek gains in Euro elections

29 May 1999
European elections could topple British Conservative Party leader

27 May 1999
European elections highlight growth of regionalism

14 May 1999
First bananas, now beef fuels US-EU trade war

27 March 1999
War dominates the European Union summit in Berlin

17 March 1999
Mass resignation by European Commission
Path cleared for reform of European Union

9 March 1999
Much more than bananas at stake in US-Europe trade conflict

5 March 1999
US imposes tariff sanctions on European luxury goods

30 January 1999
US-EU banana dispute intensifies world trade tensions

21 January 1999
The euro's launch heralds major economic and social conflicts

Crisis in the European Union: The failed vote of no-confidence in the European Parliament

20 January 1999
Banana war threatens jobs and heralds wider trade conflicts

 

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