Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is ...

This would help create a Europe that goes beyond countries and EU borders, which is not a hostage to some member states' vetoes, but a truly democratic global actor, capable of protecting European ...

The European Commission’s president Jose Manuel Barroso says a federation of Europe is “unavoidable” if Europe’s embattled common currency is to survive the financial crisis.

The president of the European Commission called on Wednesday for the European Union to be turned into a 'federation of nation states' in a sweeping demand for countries to surrender more ...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called for more European integration to help tackle the euro zone debt crisis in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday through the creation ...