MEDIA-PORTUGAL: The New Voices of Immigrant Communities

A number of newspapers and magazines catering to immigrant communities in Portugal and published in Russian, Portuguese and Mandarin have relatively wide circulations and provide an important link to "home" for their readers.

POLITICS-EUROPE: Case Against Milosevic Vanishing

It began more than two years ago as the most important case of its kind against a former head of state. Now, after 300 days of hearings, the ill health of key participants is casting doubts over the eventual outcome of the trial of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes.

ENVIRONMENT-BALKANS: GM Crops Sneak Up

Some farmers knew it, some did not, but GM soy and maize seeds entered Serbia last year.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ART: 20th Century Works Could Draw a Million

A new exhibition of 200 masterpieces of the 20th century at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Berlin is expected to draw more than a million visitors over the next seven months.

HEALTH: AIDS Spreading Rapidly in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is seeing the fastest growing AIDS epidemic in the world, studies by UN agencies show.

ENVIRONMENT: The EU’s North-South Fishing Divide

Two years ago the European Union began to draft a new common fisheries policy (CFP) to protect the region's fishing resources, but the bloc's 15 member states seem to be having difficulties reaching an agreement, stymied by efforts to impose stricter rules.

DEVELOPMENT: EU ‘Sidetracking’ Issues on Agriculture

New EU proposals to support agricultural exports from developing countries are not enough, a leading NGO says.

DEVELOPMENT: Europe Asked to Look to Its Own Poor

The EU needs to make a renewed commitment to fight poverty and social exclusion within Europe, says a report by a leading social rights group.

POLITICS-SERBIA: From Turks to Milosevic, and Now What

Modern Serbia has turned 200, and everyone is worried.

FINANCE-EU: Budget Proposal Sidelines Development

Development cooperation could get downgraded in the next EU budget, civil society groups warn.

LABOUR-EU: Come to the Common Market, But Stay Home

Introduction of restrictions looks increasingly more likely in order to block a surge of labour from new EU states to the old after enlargement May 1.

RIGHTS-EUROPE: Art Speaks Up for Immigrants

It was on the cards for months, and this week it became official. Beginning mid-year and continuing over the next three years, the Dutch government will deport roughly 26,000 asylum seekers.

DEVELOPMENT: EU Begins to Look to Its Own

Development issues are coming home to the EU in the face of its enlargement from May 1 this year.

ECONOMY-BALKANS: After Yugoslavia, the Yugo Goes

After 20 busy years in former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, the little "Yugo" car has come to the end of the road.

PORTUGAL: Tourism Stakes Bets on Football’s Euro Cup 2004

Football could be Portugal's big chance. One of the lesser known countries of Europe, as host of the European Cup 2004 it could shed its image as a sort of appendage to Spain and consolidate a position as a tourist destination on its own terms.

POLITICS-GREECE: Democracy Runs Again in the Family

Greece is heading towards a hotly contested national election where all that is certain in its 'hereditary democracy' is that the next prime minister will again be either a Papandreou or a Karamanlis.

POLITICS: France Makes a Great Leap Backward

France produced revolutionary ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity but is now retreating from all these, critics of the government say.

POLITICS-EU: Bulgaria Moves from Backyard to Frontline

Bulgarians were not expecting that some of them would die in action alongside coalition forces in Iraq long before they could join NATO.

TRADE-EU: African Deal Could Open a Door to WTO

Development groups are hoping that a regional trade agreement between the EU and developing countries in eastern and southern Africa will kickstart the stalled Doha Development Round.

SOCIETY-BALKANS: Countdown Begins to New Lessons

Less than 100 days from now Slovenia becomes the first among the six former Yugoslav republics to join the EU.

TRADE-EU: New Helpdesk ‘Not Much Help’

EU moves to give developing countries better access to its markets must be accompanied by a wider strategy to restart World Trade Organisation negotiations, groups supporting development say.