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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that there were four elements he would not accept in any EU treaty. In remarks made to the House of Commons Liaison Committee , Blair acknowledged that it...

Following a Friday meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told the Polish daily newspaper Dziennik he was optimistic that a compromise on a controversial voting system...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday told the lower house of Germany's parliament that she hopes a road map to an eventual European constitution can be achieved at an EU summit...

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Tuesday that Poland would insist on new discussions on voting within the Council of the European Union before Poland will agree to any proposed EU constitutional "treaty" . Kaczynski...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and new French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed at the G8 summit in Germany Thursday that the controversial European constitution should be reconstituted into a "simplified treaty" whose ratification...

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and new French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that they both back proposals for a limited constitutional treaty that would amend the...

The Paris Court of Appeal Tuesday raised the sentences of nine Islamic militants convicted of "criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise" from nine years to the maximum of 10 years in prison. The...

German Chancellor Angel Merkel Saturday urged European Union members to work together to advance a European constitution , largely stalled since referendum setbacks in France and the Netherlands in 2005. Merkel, whose country...

The convincing victory of conservative French Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy over Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal in the French presidential run-off election Sunday means that the incoming French...

A French court Thursday cleared Charlie-Hebdo magazine and director Philippe Val of defamation in last year's republication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad originally published in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. The court ruled that...