Tony Blair's chances of becoming the European Union's first full-time president were in serious trouble late on Thursday as a Brussels summit opened with a chorus of criticism from his own supposed center-left allies.
Six hundred years ago, Brussels was just a nice place to stop and buy a waffle on the way to France. Today, it's a city of 1.8 million, the capital of Belgium, the headquarters of NATO and the political center of the European Union. It may be easy to skip as you zip from Amsterdam to Paris by train, but its rich brew of food and culture pleasantly surprises those who stop. Its magnificent grand square, rightly named La Grand Place, alone makes a visit worthwhile.
Europe is investing in its infrastructure, and travelers know the results are breathtaking. With the English Channel tunnel, trains speed from Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower in about 2.5 hours. You zip under the English Channel in 20 minutes ... looking out the window for fish.
Between late July and early December of 2008 four members of a Belgian-French group returned to Europe from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.
Six hundred years ago, Brussels was just a nice place to stop and buy a waffle on the way to France. Today, it's a city of 1.8 million, the capital of Belgium, the headquarters of NATO and the political center of the European Union. It may be easy to skip as you zip from Amsterdam to Paris by train, but its rich brew of food and culture pleasantly surprises those who stop. Its magnificent grand square, rightly named La Grand Place, alone makes a visit worthwhile.
Center right and minority parties make gains across Europe as turnout in elections for the new European Parlimanent dips to a record low of 43 percent. Below is a country by country selection of some of the key results at national level.
European intelligence agencies are on alert for new al Qaeda terrorist plots following the arrest of two men at an Italian port and investigations into the activities of an alleged al Qaeda network based in Brussels.
Protests are expected to continue in Brussels on Friday after tens of thousands marched on the streets of Spain's capital Thursday to demand better protection for workers hit hard by the economic crisis.
With its record $1.45 billion fine levied against Intel for allegedly anticompetitive activities, the European Commission -- the executive arm of the European Union -- is again showing its appetite for taking on and punishing big American companies.
Two children and one adult were killed Friday after a man with a painted face launched a knife attack at a children's daycare center in Belgium.
Tony Blair's chances of becoming the European Union's first full-time president were in serious trouble late on Thursday as a Brussels summit opened with a chorus of criticism from his own supposed center-left allies.
Six hundred years ago, Brussels was just a nice place to stop and buy a waffle on the way to France. Today, it's a city of 1.8 million, the capital of Belgium, the headquarters of NATO and the political center of the European Union. It may be easy to skip as you zip from Amsterdam to Paris by train, but its rich brew of food and culture pleasantly surprises those who stop. Its magnificent grand square, rightly named La Grand Place, alone makes a visit worthwhile.
Europe is investing in its infrastructure, and travelers know the results are breathtaking. With the English Channel tunnel, trains speed from Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower in about 2.5 hours. You zip under the English Channel in 20 minutes ... looking out the window for fish.
Between late July and early December of 2008 four members of a Belgian-French group returned to Europe from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.
Six hundred years ago, Brussels was just a nice place to stop and buy a waffle on the way to France. Today, it's a city of 1.8 million, the capital of Belgium, the headquarters of NATO and the political center of the European Union. It may be easy to skip as you zip from Amsterdam to Paris by train, but its rich brew of food and culture pleasantly surprises those who stop. Its magnificent grand square, rightly named La Grand Place, alone makes a visit worthwhile.
Center right and minority parties make gains across Europe as turnout in elections for the new European Parlimanent dips to a record low of 43 percent. Below is a country by country selection of some of the key results at national level.
European intelligence agencies are on alert for new al Qaeda terrorist plots following the arrest of two men at an Italian port and investigations into the activities of an alleged al Qaeda network based in Brussels.
Protests are expected to continue in Brussels on Friday after tens of thousands marched on the streets of Spain's capital Thursday to demand better protection for workers hit hard by the economic crisis.
With its record $1.45 billion fine levied against Intel for allegedly anticompetitive activities, the European Commission -- the executive arm of the European Union -- is again showing its appetite for taking on and punishing big American companies.
Two children and one adult were killed Friday after a man with a painted face launched a knife attack at a children's daycare center in Belgium.
The Czech Republic has apologized for a controversial art installation it commissioned to mark its six-month presidency of the European Union.
Bulgaria is a Turkish toilet, France is always on strike, Romania is a vampire theme-park and the UK... Well the UK doesn't exist.
Belgian authorities charged six suspected al-Qaeda-linked extremists with membership in a terrorist group Friday, including a woman they called an "al Qaeda living legend," according to media reports.
Belgian police Thursday arrested a woman they called an "al Qaeda living legend" as part of an operation to thwart a terror attack being planned to coincide with an EU summit in Brussels, a Belgian police source told CNN.
One of the things that charms me about traveling through Europe is its ethnic variety. Hop on a train and two hours later you step into a different culture, different language and different heritage.
The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced Wednesday they will hold a global summit
Everybody's working on plug-in cars, but their success depends on gas prices and cleaner power plants
European Union heads of state and government meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss what to do following Russia's crushing of Georgia. Can they make a better job of facing down Russia's new assertiveness than NATO's foreign ministers did?
Russia is playing "dangerous games" by reasserting its military power in Georgia and in other areas, such as bombing flights skirting American airspace, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.
Belgians finally get the chance to buy one of Apple Inc.'s coveted iPhones on Friday -- at the highest prices in the world
An investigation has been launched to investigate whether drug firms have been fixing the market to squeeze out copycat medicines
The European Commission has suggested there should be a cut in catches for most waters. Yet the survival of stocks comes in conflict with sustaining the livelihoods of Europe's fishermen
Though European leaders are about to sign a new treaty, the event has been dubbed a diplomatic vanity trip and an environmental extravagance
The sensation of speed is as muted as the Christian Lacroix interiors of the first-class carriages. Passengers stroll the corridors without lurching from side to side. Drinks at the bar are neither shaken nor stirred by the train's acceleration. Only the green rush of the Champagne countryside whooshing by at 200 mph vouches for the velocity of France's newest and fastest TGV, as it hurtles along the track from Paris to Strasbourg.
Belgium heads for 149 days with no government unless the two winners of this year's elections suddenly resolve linguistic spats deadlocking their bid to form an alliance
Viewpoint: So she gave the dog to another family. Is this any reason for a talk-show host to get America in an uproar?
The United States' payment of illegal subsidies to Boeing Co. has cost rival plane maker Airbus $27 billion in lost revenues over the past three years, the European Union said Wednesday.
The traditional British pint of beer is here to stay after the European Union finally ceded in the battle to convert the country's traditional imperial measures to metric versions.
Poland's Gdansk shipyard, the birthplace of the anti-communist Solidarity movement, has submitted a last-ditch rescue plan to prevent its closure.
Thick fog is causing havoc for Christmas travelers in Britain for a third day, with hundreds of flights cancelled at airports.
European countries have pledged to contribute almost 7,000 troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani on Thursday in Brussels, after the Iranian postponed the meeting by a day without an explanation, Solana's office said.
BRUSSELS (Dow Jones) - The European Union wants to relaunch bilateral negotiations with the U.S. on how to resolve a bitter row over state aid to rival aircraft makers Boeing (BA) and Airbus (ABI.YY), an E.U. spokesman said Thursday.
Authorities evacuated and closed a busy terminal at Brussels' Zaventem International Airport after a man who was behaving suspiciously fled inside to evade a security check.
More than 2,300 people are attending the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
A 12-year-old Turkish girl has died from suspected bird flu in the eastern city of Van, officials said on Sunday.
A person who was admitted to a Brussels hospital with flu symptoms after returning from areas in Turkey affected by bird flu has tested negative for the virus, according to a Belgian government official.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has faced a barrage of criticism over the EU budget deal he brokered as European lawmakers said they could not accept it unless governments put up more cash.
After more than two weeks of nightly rioting and arson in France, unrest spread northeastwards to Belgium, where more than two dozen similar incidents took place overnight Saturday.
GENEVA -(Dow Jones)- Talks among trade ministers from the world's biggest commercial powers to open global markets ended in acrimony Tuesday night.
The European Commission has called an emergency meeting of its food and animal health committee for Friday after it confirmed that the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in Turkish poultry and suspected of being present in Romania.
Thousands of sugar farmers from Europe and Asia Pacific countries have been protesting over plans to reform Europe's sugar sector.
For centuries, the beer faithful have made pilgrimages to places like London, Brussels and Munich in search of the perfect pint.
French President Jacques Chirac has called for an emergency summit to discuss the future of the European Union, reeling after French and Dutch rejections of is first constitution.
A car bomb exploded Friday evening in a northwestern Baghdad neighborhood, killing nine Iraqi civilians and wounding 15 others, Iraqi security forces said.
Europe's leaders are agonizing over the future of the EU constitution after voters in the Netherlands joined the French in rejecting it.
Paul Wolfowitz, Washington's nominee to head the World Bank, will be in Brussels Wednesday to meet with European Union officials, diplomats said.
You could just go to Paris. You could take your precious week or two of vacation, fly all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, park yourself in a hotel, eat at a different café and go to a different ...
Much of Europe fell silent for three minutes on Wednesday as busy rail stations, stock exchanges, offices and shops paused to mourn the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.
U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to meet with NATO and European Union leaders in February in an effort to mend trans-Atlantic relations that have been strained by the war in Iraq, officials say.
Treasury prices fell sharply Monday ahead of a week of corporate debt issues as a sudden wave of speculative selling sent yields to new ranges and triggered market-timers to jump in on the action.
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At least 10 people were killed and 100 others injured when a leaking underground natural gas pipeline exploded in southern Belgium, officials said.
It may get down to chilly sub-zero temperatures in mid-winter, but the cold climate country of Norway remains the best place in the world to live, according to the latest research by the United Nations.
Iraq's foreign minister has urged NATO to speed up promised training for his government's fledgling military and provide extra assistance.
The European Union has urged the interim Iraqi government not to reinstate the death penalty.
The release of early results from European Parliament polling has sparked a row between Brussels and the Netherlands.
Working with Italian authorities, Belgian police have arrested 15 people, mainly of Arab and North African origin, in a series of raids early Tuesday morning, said Belgian's federal prosecutor dealing with terrorism cases.
On May 1, Europe becomes a much bigger place when ten countries join the European Union. With the addition of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the Baltic states, Cyprus, Malta, Hungary, Poland, and Sl...
Spurred by a sense of unity after the Madrid bombings, European Union leaders have agreed to major reforms in the bloc's fight against terrorism.
EU leaders have rediscovered a sense of unity in the wake of the Madrid bombings, agreeing to restart stalled constitution talks and boost joint action against terrorism.
World reaction to Israel's killing of Hamas movement leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin has been swift and blunt, with many condemning the action as illegal and a blow to efforts to fight terrorism.
A letter bomb exploded at the office of a British member of the European Parliament, but no one was hurt, a parliamentary official said.
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