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The results of the bank stress test in Europe have been greeted with widespread skepticism; even though financial markets seem calmer, the system is not yet out of the woods.

July 6, 2010 (BBC) - The European Union has decided to withdraw Sri Lanka's preferential trade access to EU markets after it failed to improve its human rights record.

The future of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), the arms control agreement that has served as the foundation of military confidence and transparency on the European continent since the end of the Cold War, is in doubt due to a long-standing impasse among the States Parties to the Treaty.  The impasse stands in contrast to the progress on nuclear arms, most notably the US-Russia negotiations that led to the signing of a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty at Prague in April, 2010.

May 9th (BBC News) - EU finance ministers have met in Brussels to discuss establishing a new "stabilisation mechanism" to prevent the Greek debt crisis from spreading.

As the price tag for the EU/IMF bailout for Greece has steadily grown over the past several months and contagion within the euro-zone has commenced, US investors are beginning to realize that the widening European sovereign debt crisis may indeed have some significant implication on our side of the pond.

May 6, 2010 (Reuters) - The head of NATO Wednesday put the cost of linking up the alliance's missile defense systems at less than 200 million euros ($260 million), and said it was a small price to pay to protect citizens.

May 4, 2010 (RIA Novosti) - The European Union is concerned by nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy said.

May 3, 2010 (Xinhua) - Eurozone finance ministers agreed on Sunday to activate the aid package for Greece, offering along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 110 billion euros to the debt-laden country in the next three years.

April 1, 2010 (AFP) - The Cold War-era Western European Union defence alliance, set up in the wake of World War II, has been dissolved, the organisation's presidency said in a statement Wednesday.

'Out-of-the-box' CIA think tank proposes concerns over women's rights, fear of terrorism as ways to boost support for Afghan war.