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Van Rompuy, Ashton selected to revive european project Le Roi des Belges; or perhaps not so royal but democratic, although his new Foreign Minister is a Baroness sending a message to the world that the new European Council President and his High Representative The European President - A Modest Proposal  It has been a long time since the Brussels scene was so abuzz, for nothing livens up the city more that a good session of gossip, intrigue, plotting and scheming, for this is what the Government gets thumbs up from EU Presidency The European Union welcomes the appointment of a government in Moldova, said the office of the Swedish Presidency of the European Council on 25 September, following the repeat parliamentary elections on 29 July. The Council Iceland, in from the cold Iceland: In from the cold Speculation on Iceland’s application to become the 28th Member State of the European Union had been rife the last month as the question was debated in the country’s 1000 year old The Philosopher King In Ancient Greece, more specifically in the bustling trading capital Athens, of the all powerful state of Athens, around the fourth century BC there lived a man who changed the course of history. He founded the The EU says it’s taking the first steps toward helping Belarus  Istvan Sertö-Radics from Hungary, who is the Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions, and rapporteur for the EU’s proposed Eastern Partnership to six eastern European countries, including Belarus, outlined during the panel what he Subsidiarity is de-central to your well-being, but good for you The Assembly of European Regions, which represents 260 regions, onethird of them outside the European Union, has just released the results of a four-year study into the economic effects of devolving decision making to the No winds of change for the EU-China Stalemate Summit  The European Union and China hoped to mend fences at their summit in Prague, but deadlocked on virtually every major point of disagreement and wound up issuing a vague statement that they would continue to Council of Europe will speed up its human rights court Council of Europe ministers have agreed to accelerate the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos announced. He spoke at a press conference following a meeting Switzerland will not impose quotas on Europeans The Swiss government, always reluctant to open its borders in a country which has tough immigration rules, has decided not to invoke a safeguard clause in the Schengen agreement, which would have let the Alpine EU says Malawi elections weren’t really fair, but were free Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika won re-election in polling his rival said was rigged, but which European Union observers said were generally fair, but fell far short of international standards, including a biased media, and Czech president wants premier to chair EU summit Czech President Vaclav Klaus has proposed that Prime Minister Jan Fischer, whose cabinet has a task of completing the Czech Republic’s presidency of the European Union, chairs the bloc’s June summit, the president’s office said. No Devils in Prague  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, called The Last Dictator in Europe, at the last moment skipped coming to Prague last week for the launch of the European Union’s much-vaunted Eastern Partnership to woo former Soviet Republics Reluctant Czechs approve EU treaty You could almost hear the groans in Dublin, where the Irish are now the lone hold-outs in approving the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, after the Czech Republic – whose president disdains the EU even though Solving the EU’s recession isn’t easy  Greece’s Minister of Economy and Finance Yiannis Papathanasiou was in Brussels last week to attend meetings and seminars of his peers and financial analysts and economists to explain how their countries are handling the recession Czechs flip-flop, give Lukashenko a seat in Prague  To the dismay of human rights supporters, Czech officials defended their decision to invite Belarusian President Aleksander Luka - shenko, whose undemocratic rule earned him the label of Europe’s last dictator, to this week’s summit Turkey’s EU bid gets the backing of EU Presidency  Czech President Vaclav Klaus, whose country chairs the European Union until June 30, said he supports Turkey’s aspirations to join the 27-member bloc, although the process is dragging on a could take years more – “Worried” EU to send fact-finding mission to Ukraine The European Union has “every reason to be worried” about Ukraine’s political deadlock and economic crisis, EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg said, and they’re going to do something about it. The EU is to Who to call when you need a diplomat fast  Brussels is a key centre for diplomacy and a recent arrival to the scene is Independent Diplomat, set up in 2004 by Carne Ross, a British diplomat who resigned from government service after giving evidence Czech Presidency rules out East Accessions The European Union would not be willing any time soon to accept into its ranks the six former Soviet countries that the 27- member bloc hopes to bring closer through its Eastern Partnership initiative, an |
EU-Russia energy game EU budget: Naming and Shaming of Member States allowing fraud A message for Turkey: tear down Cyprus’ wall now! India says global warming is not to blame for Himalayan glacier melt A misled Merkel takes a swipe at GM over its Opel U-turn Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transexual (LBGT) organisations across Europe cooperate under the umbrella of the International Lesbian and Gay Association This coming Thursday evening, November 19 during the “Last Supper,” the 27 heads of the EU Member States will decide The end of World War II found the United Kingdom winners, but literally bankrupt. The After months of networking, secret briefings, it seems that the candidates for the Council President In a meeting in Washington with the current Swedish Presidency of the European Union, US President Barack Obama said that As the United States and NATO have urged European countries to take a bigger role Europe must step up its efforts in Afghanistan if it wants to avoid straining relations Six months after they met in London and established a $1.1 trillion-dollar support package for As the first top British diplomat to visit Moscow in recent five years, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrapped up Despite French carmaker Renault’s earlier statement that it will not invest any more money in The United States and Russia on 9 November began another round of talks over nuclear Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government will continue to adopt measures to better The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, and the EU’s Chamber of Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas Just as the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China passed |
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