Monday, June 18, 2007

EU looks beyond charter
By 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... read more...

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

The Continental Drift
By 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... read more...

EU looks to cargo trains to ease load on trucking
By 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... read more...