BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States are likely to scrap plans to hold a summit in Madrid in May because U.S. President Barack Obama has decided not to attend, EU diplomats said on Tuesday. Obama's decision is a new blow to the EU's hopes of boosting its global standing even though the president underlined ...

European Union justice ministers were split Friday over a plan to use the bloc's concept of "enhanced cooperation" to develop EU rules governing divorce between mixed-nationality couples. The concept -- created by the EU's 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam -- allows groups of at least eight member states to ask the Commission to apply EU-level laws to them if the bloc ...

Airports around the world must adopt different security measures or else it will become easier for terrorists to exploit weaknesses to carry out attacks, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. "What we do not want is a cookie cutter approach -- where the same measures are in place everywhere -- because then terrorists can plan and work around them," she ...

The EU will decide on a US request that Europe install body scanners at its airports after studies into their effects on health and privacy are completed, EU officials meeting in Spain said Thursday. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, said the European Commission was carrying out the studies into the ...