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Europe keeps open mind on presidency

By Tony Barber in Brussels and Ben Hall in Paris David Miliband, the UK foreign secretary, is emerging as the frontrunner to be the European Union's next head of foreign policy, but the contest for the bloc's full-time...

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The transfer of authority to David Cameron has already begun

The reaction to Lisbon shows that the Tories are being treated - and scrutinised - as a ruling party, says Matthew d'Ancona. Prime Minister in waiting: David Cameron announces his change of course on the Lisbon Treaty Photo:...

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1989 memories leave Czechs confused | Michael Simmons

The ambivalence in the Czech Republic today is a far cry from the unanimity and euphoria of the days of the Velvet Revolution Twenty years on, in Prague, the de facto capital of central Europe, there is no shortage of the...

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Slovakia closes border crossings with Ukraine amid A/H1N1 fears

Slovakia will close on Sunday all border crossings with Ukraine, except for the car checkpoint in Vysne Nemecke, amid fears of spreading the A/H1N1 virus, the Slovakian interior minister said on Saturday.

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Russia, Slovenia could sign deal on South Stream next Sat - media

SARAJEVO, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Ljubljana and Moscow have finalized an agreement to take the South Stream gas pipeline through Slovenia and could sign it in Moscow next week, a Slovenian paper reported on Saturday....

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Peer's legal challenge against House of Lords could cause constitutional crisis

If Lord Mereworth's claim is upheld, all legislation passed by upper house in last decade could be declared void Ministers are facing a legal challenge from a hereditary peer that threatens to unravel the law that reformed the...

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The rail thread that links Europe

In the week the Lisbon Treaty was finally ratified, the BBC's Johnny Dymond travelled the continent's railways to glean a sense of its past and future. Empty carriages In Budapest, the eastern railway station is a monument to...

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Winners and losers of 1989 | Joschka Fischer

Twenty years on Europe and the US have squandered their victory, Russia is mired in depression and China has new power Those who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what...

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The end of the great deception

The EU has achieved the goal it has worked stealthily towards for so long - a supra-national government which is now beyond our recall, writes Christopher Booker Sickle joke: a protester in Prague gives a graphic demonstration...

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Zombies are lurking on every high street

When the chief executive of a big bank says he has been "bruised" you know there is an awful going on behind that short word. As chief executive of RBS, how much of his business would he need to give up to satisfy the European...

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