Günter Verheugen
Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Enterprise and Industry
Innovation and clusters as a way to growth and jobs

Franco Frattini
European Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security
From the outside, looking in: international perspectives on the Middle East

Vice President Franco Frattini
European Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security
Opening remarks for the second EC - Israel Seminar on the fight against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism

Stock markets in Europe have recorded some of their biggest losses in more than six years.

The European Union will today come closer to a universal treaty on the physical punishment of children.

Today at midnight, the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Malta, both small island states in the Mediterranean and former British colonies, adopted the euro as their official currency; less than four years after their accession to the European Union.

Armenia is not ruling out extending the Iran-Armenia natural gas pipeline to Europe to supply gas to European Union countries, the Armenian energy minister said on Monday.

New 'Schengen' countries to guard the EU fortress. Once again a number of internal borders are being scrapped in the European Union. As per 21 December 2007 there will no longer be any border controls between the 'old EU' and nine recently acceded member states.

European Union wants smaller, cleaner cars. Car makers will in the future be made to pay if they fail to slash the vehicles' emissions of carbon dioxide. Brussels has unveiled controversial proposals to impose fines on all new cars sold in Europe that exceed a set limit for CO2. The fines will start in 2012 and rise sharply every year.

The European Central Bank is offering banks unlimited emergency loans at below market rates, in a co-ordinated bid to inject liquidity into the money markets.

BRUSSELS (Combined Sources)--Hundreds of European Armenians demonstrated in Brussels on Friday to urge the European Union to force Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide before joining the bloc.

The Lisbon treaty key is to have a more democratic and open and accountable Union. Commission welcomes signature of the Treaty of Lisbon and calls for its swift ratification.