On October 12, in the wake of the London bomb attacks of July 7 and 21, 2005 the British government presented a bill that is supposed to tighten up existing counter-terrorism legislation. Critics from the ranks of the Liberal Democrats want clarification on whether the draft text fulfils...

In mid-October 2005 the EU Commission reacted to the referenda that have failed for the time being in France and the Netherlands: Despite its further support for the European Constitutional Treaty the Commission deems it necessary to insert a period of reflection until mid-2006. All European...