LABOUR: EU Wants Knowledge to Save Jobs

Knowledge-based industry is being given a new push in an expanding EU to counter growing unemployment.

POLITICS-EU: Further Expansion Now Being Negotiated

The EU will have ten new members from next month, and preparations are under way for membership of another two, Bulgaria and Romania.

DEVELOPMENT-PORTUGAL: The Hungry Side of the EU

Nearly two decades as a member of the European Union "club of the rich" have translated into little or nothing for the two million Portuguese people living in poverty.

POLITICS-EU: War on Terror ‘Threatens Aid’

A rush of new EU proposals seek to link aid to the fight against terrorism. Inevitably, a group of leading non-governmental organisations have objected to the moves.

EUROPEAN UNION: Circulation Restrictions Rock Expansion Boat

All citizens of the European Union have equal rights, but some seem to be more citizens than others as the bloc expands from 15 to 25 states, with restrictions on international movements of people from the new Eastern European members.

TRADE: Banana War Looms Over EU Expansion

Banana growers are preparing for a new confrontation with the EU after its expansion May 1 this year.

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.

HEALTH: AIDS Spreading Rapidly in Eastern Europe

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

DEVELOPMENT: EU ‘Sidetracking’ Issues on Agriculture

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

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.

POLITICS-EU: Enlargement Magnifies Problems Too

The European Union is grappling with large difficulties as it prepares for enlargement May 1.

ECONOMY: Europe Sails Closer to Mediterranean

A 2.5 billion dollar facility is expected to give a significant boost to investment by EU companies in the Mediterranean countries.

ENERGY: Europeans Urged to Help Themselves and the Poor

An international conference has urged European nations to boost the share of renewables in their energy consumption and to assist developing countries in energy strategies.

ECONOMY: Europe Counts the Cost of Expansion

Europeans are growing increasingly sceptical about prospects of a better life in the face of the expansion due next year.

POLITICS: Europe Grows in Size, Not Strength

The European Union has taken a historic step to branch eastward to touch Russia and Lebanon. That makes it large and populous enough to be a superpower rivalling the United States, but it may still end up as only a paper tiger.

POLITICS-EUROPE: Regional Parliament Approves EU Expansion

The European Parliament approved the eastward expansion of the European Union this week, after resolving a dispute which had threatened the signing ceremony of 10 new candidate countries.