Climate compensation demands grow louder at COP26
GLASGOW — Rich countries are being put on the spot at the COP26 climate summit as poorer nations facing floods, fires, droughts and sea-level rise caused by global warming ramp up calls for...
View ArticleLet Europe lead in Ukraine
As Russia’s annexation of Crimea proceeds, the United States must step back; the European Union must step forward; and the international community must ensure both that Russia pays a steep economic and...
View ArticleAshton names six new EU ambassadors
Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has appointed new heads of the EU delegations in Azerbaijan, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Paraguay and Sri Lanka. Three of...
View ArticleMovers & Shakers
Joseph Silva, a French diplomat, has been appointed head of the European Union’s delegation in Djibouti. He replaces Nicola Delcroix, also French, who is returning to Brussels. Silva’s most recent...
View ArticleDanes put Schengen under renewed pressure
Cecilia Malmström, the European commissioner for home affairs, is facing another Denmark-inspired challenge to the European Union’s Schengen area of borderless travel. Denmark’s interpretation of...
View ArticleThe business of social responsibility
Why should business education concern itself with poverty? Conceivably it might feature in teaching about corporate social responsibility. But beyond that, wealth creation is surely the name of the...
View ArticleDealing with the aftershock
We can leave it to the Portuguese voters to pass political judgment on José Sócrates and his government for their protracted and stubborn resistance to tapping the European Union’s emergency fund, the...
View ArticleCaribbean trade deal sealed
The EU today signed a long-discussed and controversial trade deal that will eventually give EU companies access to almost all areas of the Caribbean market. Under the terms of the agreement signed on...
View ArticleCommission gives aid to Gustav victims
The European Commission has pledged to provide €2 million in humanitarian aid for victims of Hurricane Gustav in the Caribbean. The cash will be used to provide basic humanitarian needs such as clean...
View ArticleMovers & shakers
Natalia Alonso has become acting director of Amnesty International’s EU office, replacing Dick Oosting. Alonso, who before joining Amnesty International worked for the European Commission’s delegations...
View ArticleMEPs demand more cash for poverty-hit ACP states
At last December’s Brussels summit, the Union’s leaders approved a 23 billion euro-package for the European Development Fund (EDF), to be spent in 2008-13. The EDF, which is spread across the...
View ArticleWTO prepares banana verdict
Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Honduras are contesting a 2004 European Commission proposal for a tariff of €230 per tonne on banana imports. Their case is being assessed by an...
View ArticleTime for Mandelson to face the global AIDS epidemic
Just lately the debate on access to affordable, life-saving AIDS medication flared up again when the European Parliament issued its main report on a proposed regulation to help poor countries overcome...
View ArticleBacking for GM crops still a political hot potato
As yet, no consensus has emerged on the merits of developing gene technologies in poor countries. In the absence of such an agreement, regardless of the technical merits of genetic engineering, giving...
View ArticleTree-lined Guadalajara can’t hide Latin America’s troubles
According to local press reports, the idea behind the frantic mass-planting is to shield the 50 heads of state and government due to descend on Guadalajara for the 27-28 May event from the sight of...
View ArticleHavana snubs Union envoy to Cuba, reveals Nielson
Miguel Amado, head of the Commission’s delegation to the Dominican Republic, had been tasked with also representing the EU executive in Havana about a year ago. But the Cuban authorities have not yet...
View ArticleCommission to open office in Cuba
The inauguration ceremony will be conducted by Poul Nielson, the European development commissioner, during a four-day visit to the Caribbean island (10-14 March). The office is being run by the...
View ArticleOfficials pin hopes on Caribbean island joining EU in next wave
Undaunted by the mockery this has prompted from other Caribbean leaders, the newly-elected prime minister of the tiny island-state took his case for accession to French President Jacques Chirac during...
View ArticleDe Palacio to revive plans to bolster air safety checks
The plan, which was first unveiled three years ago by De Palacio’s predecessor Neil Kinnock, had been shelved because of the continuing dispute between the UK and Spain over the status of Gibraltar....
View ArticleGovernments strive for early end to banana war
EU officials say the Portuguese presidency is not pushing hard for an early deal because of concerns about the impact of any reforms on its own producers. Lisbon has set up a special working group to...
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