cinema
Czech festival showcases Eastern European filmsSome of the best new movies from Central and Eastern Europe take pride of place at the Czech film… 08/07/08 19:56 CET
corporate
Lower crude prices prevent bigger share slideFresh worries about the outlook for the banking sector drove European shares down by 1% on Tuesday… 08/07/08 20:47 CET
Ecofin differences over fuel and meal taxesGermany and France are split over proposals for a cap on fuel taxes and the lowering of VAT on… 08/07/08 20:47 CET
Siemens to cut more workersGerman industrial conglomerate Siemens plans to cut around 4% of its workforce. It is part of an… 08/07/08 20:47 CET
G8 calls for Beijing currency changesLeaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations have made a veiled call for China to let the… 08/07/08 20:47 CET
TNK-BP ‘facing tax troubles’Russian tax inspectors have reportedly hit BP’s troubled oil joint venture TNK-BP with new demands… 08/07/08 20:47 CET
europa
EU to boost missing children cooperationThe European Union countries have agreed to cooperate more closely in the hunt for missing children… 08/07/08 20:36 CET
Law binds aviation to contribute to CO2 goals from 2012Airlines will have to start paying for their share of air pollution in 2012. An agreement has… 08/07/08 20:34 CET
EU ministers agree united front on immigrantsThe concept of a fortress Europe has moved a step closer with European interior and immigration… 08/07/08 07:36 CET
le mag
Bolshoi revives Stalin’s favourite balletWhen the head of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet decided to he was going to revive Stalin’s favourite… 08/07/08 19:59 CET
questions for europe
Torture and ill-treatmentAren’t there international laws against this? 08/07/08 12:28 CET
EU help for small and medium sized companiesBrussels has come up with the Small Business Act as a way to make life easier for Europe’s 23… 08/07/08 12:28 CET
science
The sea that nearly diedOnce the world’s fourth largest inland sea, the Aral was virtually destroyed by Soviet attempts to… 08/07/08 19:53 CET
world news
Rome voices concern over Anglican women bishopsThe Church of England is facing a backlash from traditionalists and other branches of Christianity… 08/07/08 20:25 CET
Sarkozy pleads pardon for Red Brigades’ PetrellaFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy said he asked Italy to pardon former Red Brigades member Marina… 08/07/08 20:08 CET
US-Czech missile shield deal prompts Russian backlashThe ink was barely dry on a controversial missile defence deal signed by the US and the Czech… 08/07/08 20:06 CET
G8 leaders urge nations to share emissions goalG8 leaders have reached agreement among themselves on reducing greenhouse gases but insist… 08/07/08 20:04 CET
New EU-leaning Serbian government confirmedThe Serbian Parliament has approved a pro-Western government that aims to consign the fervent… 08/07/08 18:32 CET
Extradition for Red Brigades PetrellaFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed the extradition of the former member of the Red… 08/07/08 13:48 CET
Rice arrives in Prague to sign off Czech radar dealUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Prague to sign a controversial missile… 08/07/08 13:48 CET
G8 wants UN deal to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050The G8 club of rich nations say they want to work with the 200 or so states involved in UN climate… 08/07/08 13:48 CET
Slovakia gets the go-ahead to join the EuroEU finance ministers have given the go-ahead for Slovakia to adopt the Euro on January 1, 2009… 08/07/08 13:48 CET
Argentine glacier in winter thawThe Perito Moreno glacier in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia has ruptured in a rare… 08/07/08 13:48 CET
Petrella: not the only former Red Brigade militant facing extraditionA former member of the Red Brigades, Marina Petrella was convicted in absentia in 1992, and… 08/07/08 13:48 CET
Israel starts exhuming bodies ahead of handoverIsrael has begun exhuming the bodies of slain Palestinian and Lebanese fighters, ahead of a… 08/07/08 07:43 CET
Anglican church searches for bishop compromiseThe Anglican church says it will try to find a way around fierce opposition to women becoming… 08/07/08 07:38 CET
Students rally for French dead as suspect is heldFriends and relatives of the two French students murdered in London held a rally in their memory in… 08/07/08 07:37 CET
Serbian rivals now united in coalition governmentSerbia’s new government has been voted in by Parliament. Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, a close… 08/07/08 07:34 CET
Climate change deal dominates G8 in JapanThe world’s leading industrialised nations are set to take an important step in the fight against… 08/07/08 07:29 CET
