• If a society is to have genuine equality it needs rules and institutions to limit the government's freedom of action. Devoid of such checks and balances, Turkish democracy runs the risk of being taken hostage, writes Sinan Ulgen
  • The UN adopts a resolution calling for direct talks between Serbia and Kosovo, in a move seen as a breakthrough in the long-running dispute.
  • UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a concession to the European Union that it hopes to join, Serbia supported a compromise U.N. resolution on Kosovo on Thursday that dropped its earlier demands to reopen talks on the status of its form...
  • UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a concession to the European Union, Serbia acquiesced Thursday in a U.N. resolution on Kosovo that dropped earlier demands by Belgrade to reopen talks on the status of its former province.
  • The House of Commons on Thursday approved a new parliamentary inquiry into the journalistic use of phone hacking.
  • The European Parliament urged France and other European states on Thursday “immediately to suspend all expulsions of Roma.”
  • BUCHAREST (AFP) - France agreed on Thursday to support Romanian integration of its Roma community, but took flak from the European Parliament for forcing members of the minority to return home.
  • France was told by the European Parliament in a rare move to stop its programme of forcibly sending Roma gipsies back to their home countries.
  • The commission also accepted French assurances that Roma were not targeted as an ethnic group as a French minister claimed that “no collective expulsions were undertaken.”
  • The European Union says the number of children born out of wedlock in the 27-nation bloc has doubled over the past two decades and now accounts for over one-third of the region’s births.
  • Two Libyan men, identified only as 42-year-old Adel Ab. and 46-year-old Adel Al., have been charged with spying on members of Libya’s opposition in Germany.
  • Thilo Sarrazin’s recently released book on immigration caused a storm in Germany by accusing Muslims of refusing to integrate and of “dumbing down” German society.
  • At a time when a book has stirred debate over immigration in Germany, a Berlin restaurant with a Chinese immigrant owner and an extensive German wine list is thriving.
  • Designers are helping as women storm the corridors of power, displaying a distinctive feminine look.
  • GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - A Christian pastor on Thursday canceled a plan to burn copies of the Koran at his obscure Florida church, which had drawn international condemnation and a warning from President Barack Obama that it could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings.
  • ZUGDIDI, Georgia (Reuters) - The European Union secured the release Thursday of a Georgian army veteran from jail in the Russian-backed rebel Abkhazia region in a rare gesture of goodwill between foes.
  • ZUGDIDI, Georgia (Reuters) - The European Union secured the release Thursday of a Georgian army veteran from jail in the Russian-backed rebel Abkhazia region in a rare gesture of goodwill between foes.
  • Deutsche Bank is preparing to unveil a rights issue worth up to €9bn (£7.4bn) in a move aimed at softening the impact of new capital rules set to govern the international banking industry.
  • Argues in his book that Muslims undermine German society and threaten to change its character and culture with their higher birth rate. He angered many by saying 'all Jews share a particular gene'
  • Thilo Sarrazin, a member of Germany's central Bundesbank who made disparaging remarks about Muslims and Jews in a book, has agreed to quit his position on the board.
  • A German banker at the centre of a row over comments he made about Jews and Muslims agrees to leave his post, the Bundesbank says.
  • The government sought to tone down the debate over controversial remarks by a central bank official about Jews and Muslims.
  • The view that the EU can measure its influence against China and the US stretches credulity. The caravan, as they say, has moved on, writes Philip Stephens
  • President faces further questions over his relationships with the rich and famous after it emerged that the government had agreed to pay up to €220m in damages to one of France's more controversial entrepreneurs
  • Greece's fiscal situation is so bleak that even a cabinet shake-up may not stave off ultimate default. But at least George Papandreou's new cabinet shows he is still determined to try
  • Michel Barnier, Europe's single market commissioner, has warned banks and hedge funds that Brussels plans to use its sweeping new powers over high finance to end abusive speculation and impose order on the City of London and other EU bourses.
  • PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon ruled out Thursday offering more concessions to trade unions on a planned pension reform, saying this would derail efforts to balance a system costing billions of euros each year.
  • French financial police search the headquarters of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party over the inquiry into the L'Oreal party funding scandal, reports say.
  • President Nicolas Sarkozy outlines concessions to his flagship pension reform to try to avert an escalation of trade union-led demonstrations against his plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62
  • Unions started a major strike on Tuesday over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to raise the retirement age.
  • The country faces serious railroad and air traffic disruption from strikes that began late Monday as a protest by trade unions against government plans to raise the retirement age.
  • Austrian casino rules which required gambling operators to be based in the country, have been found in breach of EU law.
  • An ally of Angela Merkel who was criticised for implying Poland was jointly to blame for the outbreak of the Second World War is to resign from her party's leadership.
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