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Michel Barnier's appointment led to a row between Paris and London

EU's finance chief targets bankers

Michel Barnier promises new regulations to restore trust in battered institutions

Inside Europe

McCanns dismiss detectives' claims over Madeleine

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Senior officers involved in the case told a hearing in Lisbon yesterday of their belief that the girl died in her family's holiday flat.

MP's niece jailed for murder

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

The niece of Quentin Davies, a junior Defence minister, has been jailed for 15 years for stabbing a man to death at her flat in Paris.

Iraq invasion had no legal mandate, says Dutch panel

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

The Dutch government supported the invasion of Iraq despite it having no legal backing under the law of the Netherlands, a long-awaited investigation concluded yesterday.

Shooting of media mogul shocks Cyprus

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Political leaders on Cyprus expressed shock yesterday at the slaying of the island's most powerful media mogul, and sought possible motives for a killing that has stirred feelings of insecurity on the divided island.

Kate and Gerry McCann in July 2008, when they first returned to Portugal for the libel trial of the former Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral

Ex-detective faces McCann libel trial

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Goncalo Amaral publicly questioned the McCann's accounts of what happened to their daughter.

Eric Rohmer, mainstay of the French nouvelle vague

Rohmer, master of French cinema, dies at 89

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Director who paid tribute to Hitchcock was himself an inspiration to Hollywood

Baroness Ashton told MEPs she was 'just five weeks into the the job'

Baptism of fire for EU's foreign affairs supremo

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Ashton fails to dispel doubts about experience during grilling by MEPs

The Italian premier drafted new immunity laws on his first day back at work

Berlusconi returns to work with a spring in his step

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Silvio Berlusconi was back at his desk a month after his attack, working on new immunity laws.

The Drouot Montaigne auction house in Paris, where eight porters have been accused of 'organised theft'

Auction house porters accused of carrying out more than their jobs

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

French police blame 'co-operative of crime' as dozens of missing items are found hidden in Paris warehouse

Nicolas Sarkozy wants to bring the French espionage trade into line; right, Mata Hari, the most famous female spy, executed in France in 1917

Sarkozy puts woman in charge of 'spy school'

Monday, 11 January 2010

Academy designed to stop infighting between rival intelligence chiefs

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Adrian Hamilton: Ranting against Iran won't help reform

Too much comment is based on what people outside want to happen, not what will

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Andrew Grice: Labour is desperate to prove it can still change

John Prescott still carries Labour's 1997 "pledge card" in his jacket pocket

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Brian Viner: Smoked in deepest Shropshire...

... butter for the royal slice of bread

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