DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images Is it just me, or does French President Nicolas Sarkozy sound a little like Gollum in this quote about a planned summit to restructure the world's financial architecture? Europe wants the summit before the end of the year... Europe wants it. Europe demands it. Europe will get it." We wants it! In all seriousness, smart people have been saying for a long t...

SCOTTISH fishermen are to boycott a summit meeting this week in an effort to end the deadlock in the escalating "mackerel war" between Europe and Iceland and the Faroe

At their summit on 17 June, EU leaders will recommend opening accession negotiations with Iceland, read draft Council conclusions obtained by EurActiv.

EU leaders met yesterday for an emergency summit to try and find a consensus on the global financial crisis before April’s G20 summit. However, the Times notes that the summit was “marked by suspicion and self-interest, with the economic crisis exposing deep faultlines on how best to respond to the downturn.

A couple of days ago I participated in the first ever Citizens’ Summit in Europe. 150 people from all walks of life across the EU got together in Brussels to hand over to top policy-makers in Brussels their recommendations on how to tackle the economic and social challenges facing Europe. This was the culmination of

EU leaders' decisions taken early on Thursday (27 October) were greeted with widespread relief across Europe, but the summit outcome was tempered by worries on the complexity of the deal. The EurActiv network reports from Europe's capitals. More »

A summit of EU leaders in June could see a decision to launch entry negotiations with Iceland, while candidate country Turkey should be able to open new negotiating chapters, the Spanish EU Presidency said on 10 May.

The convening of a highly unusual "pre-summit summit" meeting underlines the divisions and disarray among politicians as Europe confronts its greatest economic challenges since the end of the Cold War.

In asserting that Iceland must repay in full, Britain is making two contestable assertions. The first is that if Iceland’s private fund can’t pay, the responsibility passes to the Government and taxpayers. EU rules do not say this, if only because they fail to provide for such dramatic circumstances. The second is that Iceland must

The British media woke up this week, realising that Europe still exists. As David Cameron travels to Brussels, questions loom over what, exactly, he can achieve in Europe – at this summit, and more importantly, moving forward.   Much of the commentary surrounding the summit has focussed on the increase to the EU’s 2011 budget, which Cameron is fighting.  And for good reason. ...