British, French, and German leaders and bureaucrats realised after World War II that only an economically stable ‘United States’ of Europe would guarantee peace, says Kyran Fitzgerald.

POPE John Paul II yesterday told European Christian Democratic politicians it would be “unjust” not to explicitly mention Europe’s Christian heritage in the EU constitution.

A Briton has been arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of having been sent by a Lebanese guerrilla group to carry out a terrorist attack, officials in Israel said yesterday.