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Commission backs 'evolution' of electric vehicles
Making clean and efficient vehicles is easy – but it is more challenging to develop cars that people want to buy and that make economic sense, European Commission vice-president for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani tells Public Service Review: Transport editor Jonathan Miles
EU 'colonialism' damaging the world's poorest nations
Many EU policy agendas create the poverty and despair in which a shamefully high percentage of the world's population are forced to live - claims Stuart Agnew MEP
EU set to appoint human rights champion
The EU is set to appoint a special representative for human rights to lead dialogues with the UN and third countries, and to promote EU principles around the world
Spanish borrowing costs soar after double downgrade
Two rating agencies downgraded Spain last night less than a week after the country said it would seek an EU bail-out of up to €100bn to recapitalise its banks, while government borrowing costs reached record highs
The truth about the international Arms Trade Treaty
We should focus diplomatic efforts on ensuring that countries such as China and Russia are signed up to the highest possible standards, rather than wasting time harmonising European positions that are already very similar and responsible – writes Geoffrey Van Orden MEP
MEPs push for redemption fund to pool eurozone debt
The so-called 'two-pack' of economic governance rules would give the EU the tools it needs to supervise national budgets while balancing fiscal consolidation with measures to boost growth, MEPs said
Is gonorrhoea becoming untreatable?
With more than 32,000 cases in 2010, gonorrhoea is the second most commonly reported sexually transmitted infection in Europe – it may soon become untreatable due to resistance to anitbiotics - warns Marita van de Laar
Greek eurozone exit would have 'modest' direct impact
Ratings agency report suggests Greek exit from the single currency area would not cause large-scale contagion in other member states - if the EU reacted quickly
US claims Russia supplying attack helicopters to Syria
Russia is supplying the Syrian government with attack helicopters which could lead to a dangerous escalation of the conflict within the country, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned
UN urged to act over 'callous' treatment of Ashraf refugees
The UN must end the intolerable situation endured by the Iranian democratic opposition held in Iraqi camps, and Hillary Clinton should remove the group from the US terror list – writes Struan Stevenson
EU legislation on mortgage market needed
Europe-wide rules would lead to a safer and fairer mortgage market for citizens because member states are not being proactive enough on their own – claims Arlene McCarthy MEP
We are witnessing the 'collapse of money itself' - says gold bug
Why did a successful bond trader give up his career in order to warn the world about the forthcoming financial Armageddon? Justin Stares talks to Detlev Schlichter, a hero among gold bugs
Fisheries ministers agree discards ban
European Union fisheries ministers have agreed that discards should be banned but said they would take a gradual approach to implementing the new rules
Lagarde warns of 'triple crisis' ahead of Rio summit
The world faces three threats – economic, environmental and social – that "feed off each other" and cannot be addressed in isolation, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said today
Improvement in safety on Europe's railways slows
Safety on Europe's railways is improving but the pace of progress has slowed, partly because of insufficient investment in infrastructure – and further harmonisation of rules may be the most effective solution, writes Vojtech Eksler