Europe

FORT SAO JULIAO, Portugal, 10 June– Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld met with Portuguese Defense Minister Paulo Portas here today in advance of the NATO Defense Ministerial June 12. Rumsfeld’s arrival at the defense minister’s […]

Evian, France, 3 June– ”The time has now come to build peace and reconstruct Iraq,” the leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) said in a statement at the end of their June 1-3 summit […]

Evian, France, 2 June– The United States and France are ”in agreement and we will move together to ensure that the Iraqi people have now got the capacity to run their own country,” President Bush […]

Rome, 2 June— Europeans and Americans are ”coming back together…on the need to help the people of Iraq,” Secretary of State Colin Powell said in Rome June 2, adding that ”there has been considerable progress […]

Evian, France, 2 June— Leaders of the Group-of-Eight nations announced June 2 that they will create a G-8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group, to focus on building political will to fight international terrorism. The threat of terrorism […]

Auschwitz, Poland, 31 May— THE PRESIDENT: Laura and I have just toured Auschwitz I, and what they call Auschwitz II, a place where millions were murdered. The sites are a sobering reminder that — of […]

Brussels, 27 May— The European Commission today expressed doubts about some of the compensation (approximately € 5 million) granted to Olympic Airways and Aegean Cronus by the Greek government following the attacks on 11 September […]

Barcelona, 26 May Tens of thousands of people across Spain took to the streets 24 May campaigning against the pro-American policy of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on the eve of the country’s local election […]