Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have advanced to the second round in the 2017 French presidential.
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Le Pen and Macron offer two totally different visions for France’s future and its relationship to Europe.
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Turning 18 could be your ticket to a European adventure – literally.
EU agencies play an important role in food regulation.
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A network of EU experts helps monitor food safety, banking conduct and medicines. And no-one seems to have a plan for replacing them.
The official opening of the League of Nations, 15 November 1920.
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Both the EU and UK would do well to heed the lessons of the League of Nations when it comes to membership withdrawal.
Recent protests against the closure of Central European University, Budapest.
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A move that could shut an independent university in Budapest poses fundamental questions about European values.
Just speaking English isn’t going to cut it anymore.
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The importance of speaking other languages in a post-Brexit world.
Uncertain ground ahead.
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With Britain’s exit from the EU, China is losing a champion on similar trade and investment issues.
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The prime minister has linked continued security cooperation with the EU to a successful trade deal. Was that wise?
Protestors on an anti-Brexit rally on March 25.
Although thousands have taken to the streets, protests against Brexit have been muted.
A French exit from the EU would make for the inevitable implosion of the European project.
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Yes, Brexit is really happening, and what comes next could determine whether we see another global financial crisis.
European Council President Donald Tusk holds Theresa May’s Brexit letter.
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Trump’s agenda to pull America from key global alliances is more evidence that suggests it is. A law professor probes the unknown of what a world without such cooperation might look like.
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What the British prime minister said in her letter to the EU – and what she meant.
The European Union’s relationship with Africa is as old as the independence story.
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Sixty years on, the European Union is facing unprecedented challenges among member states. Can its relationship with Africa survive the storm?
King Mohammed VI of Morocco, (L) walks with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
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Morocco has been on a massive diplomatic drive, using both its political and economic muscle. Since his coronation in 1999, the king has led over 40 visits to African countries south of the Sahara.
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Will the UK have to pay a vast sum of money to the EU in order to leave it – or will it get cash back?
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The ones to watch on either side of the negotiating table.
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The starting gun has been fired but political pressures on both sides of the Channel make a settlement a tall order.
Trigger warning.
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The two-year period for withdrawing from the EU has been launched, so what happens next?
Despite our geographical distance, Britain leaving the EU will affect Australia substantially.
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For Australia, Brexit is the diplomatic equivalent of moving into a shared house with a divorcing couple.
A window on the past: the ruins of Lindisfarne priory off the Northumberland coast.
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From the fall of the Romans to the Middle Ages, Britain was more prosperous when it fostered a relationship with Europe.