Ireland

European Union foreign ministers are meeting in Luxembourg to try to figure out how to save the reforming Lisbon Treaty after the Irish rejected it in a referendum, but as yet there does not appear to be the semblance of an idea, let alone a plan. Europe, says Colin Chapman, is increasingly becoming a region where members’ own interests count most. [more]

It could be years before Europe makes another concerted effort at tighter integration -- if it even wants to. [more]

Ireland held on Thursday a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, the result of which could determine the fate of the European Union. [more]

Ireland’s 45,000-member Technical Engineer and Electrical Union criticized the European Union's Treaty of Lisbon on May 5 over concerns about workers’ rights. [more]

Recent findings that one key nanotechnology product's manufacture could pose a health risk will enhance pressure for a decision on how to regulate the sector. [more]

The International Financial Corp. announced recently it is joining forces with the United Nations’ top expert on the business/human rights issue to study the impact of investment agreements on citizens in the developing world. [more]

A natural gas pipeline connecting Turkey to Greece will be ready to start shipments Aug. 10, and... [more]

Frances Townsend, Homeland Security adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush, said on Thursday... [more]

Moroccan police detained 15 suspected members of the al Qaeda Organization for the Countries of... [more]

The European Union plans to devise a list of sustainability criteria for biofuels that could... [more]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in her final push to knock a few more items off her ambitious... [more]

Though an emergency conference between NATO and Russia on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces... [more]

The Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are not in competition; They aim to fill fundamentally different roles. [more]

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called for a June 19 joint session of the Kazakh... [more]

Leftist parties dominated European politics throughout the 1990s and the early years of the 21st... [more]

Russia and the United States have had some tense exchanges this week regarding a U.S. plan to... [more]

By Peter Zeihan and Bart Mongoven European leaders have expressed dismay over... [more]

There is trouble within Kazakhstan's family dynasty. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev issued... [more]

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a two-part report on the... [more]

Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a two-part report on the... [more]