EU looks beyond charterBy Marc Champion in Brussels and Marcus Walker in Berlin
The Wall Street Journal Europe
18 Jun 2007
The European Union hopes to bury its dispute over adoption of a constitution at a summit this week and free a set of new national leaders to tackle more substantive challenges—from expansion of the bloc to forming a foreign policy toward an...
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The Continental DriftBy Gerard Baker
The Wall Street Journal Europe
05 Jun 2007
If you’ve heard the celebratory noises coming out of European capitals of late, you could be forgiven for thinking that, as with Mark Twain’s prematurely recorded demise, reports of Europe’s death may have been greatly exaggerated. For a continent in...
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EU looks to cargo trains to ease load on truckingBy John W. Miller
The Wall Street Journal Europe
05 Jun 2007
BRUSSELS—Europe is pouring billions into new train tracks, hoping to do something about a dirty secret: At a time when Brussels is leading the fight against carbon emissions, more and more European freight gets shipped by truck. The roughly $250...
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