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European Commission Director for the Western Balkans, Pierre Mirel, said that Bosnia-Herzegovina has yet to fulfill all the conditions for visa liberalization. Mirel told Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz that Bosnia has yet to catch up with Montenegro and Serbia...
Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Pierre Mirel, European Commission, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Outline of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Avaz
Philippines�The European Commission, the European Union�s executive branch, has allocated an additional �7 million (about P490 million) in humanitarian assistance for the victims of typhoons Ondoy (international code name: Ketsana) and Pepeng (international...
Tags: European Commission, flash appeal, Pepeng, Alistair MacDonald, Philippines, humanitarian assistance, Ondoy, Manila, China, Pacific typhoon season, Typhoon Ketsana, Disaster Accident, Environment, Weather
It has emerged that the commission wrote to the government last week raising concerns that the UK had incorrectly implemented an EU directive prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of a person's sexual orientation. The ruling follows a complaint from...
Tags: employ homosexual, religious groups, european commission, Belgium, Brussels, Rights, Employment Equality Regulations, Labor, Politics, Discrimination, Human rights, International relations, Social Issues, Religion Belief
Our "No, non, nein" campaign against Tony Blair ensured that he was not chosen as the first President of the European Council last week. Well, our campaign, and attitudes towards the Iraq war across Europe, and trade-offs between the broad political blocs...
Tags: European Parliament, European Council, European Union, Mr Van Rompuy, Herman van Rompuy, Lisbon Treaty, Iraq, Belgium, Brussels, Democratic deficit, President of the European Council, David Cameron, European Commission, Treaty of Lisbon, Federalism, Politics
Swiss lawyer Jean Russotto, one of the leading experts in Brussels, says Swiss officials will face new EU players and working methods after the treaty comes into force on December 1. The Lisbon Treaty streamlines the EU's cumbersome decision-making processes...
Tags: EU Parliament, EU Commissioner Catherine Ashton, Switzerland, Jean Russotto, Lisbon Treaty, European Parliament, Council of Ministers, European Commission, foreign affairs, European Council, Bern, Treaty of Lisbon, European integration, Politics of the European Union, European Union, Federalism
There has been no revolution here, velvet or otherwise, in the 20 years since the Czech Republic gained its freedom...All visitors must present identification and may only visit a specified family. The families here pay 6,000 crowns (£200) a month for...
Tags: Roma Rights Centre, Romany, Romas, Non-Roma, Czech Republic, velvet revolution, European Commission, roma children, European Union, Pardubice, European Roma Rights Centre, Roma minority of Hungary, Hungarian discrimination against Roma people, Ethnic groups in Romania, Ethnic groups in Russia, Roma, Social Issues
Based on her track record, it is quite possible that she is." But Carl Bildt, the ambitious Swedish foreign minister who was keen to secure the job for himself, ridiculed the appointment as "an historic missed opportunity". On the other side of the political...
Tags: European, Cathy Ashton, european political, Van Rompuy, Brussels, Belgium, Josᅢᄅ Manuel Barroso, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, European Commission, Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland, European Parliament, Foreign relations of the European Union, European Commissioner for Trade, European Union, Politics
The EU's nice stich-up Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxes If someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find to...
Tags: European Union, European Commission, European Council, eu leaders, prime minister, Baroness Ashton, Catherine Ashton, financial services, France, eu president, Belgium, Brussels, Michel Barnier, Barroso Commission, Business Finance, European Commissioner, Josᅢᄅ Manuel Barroso, Federalism, Schengen Agreement, Schengen Luxembourg, European Union law, Herman Van Rompuy, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Jean Monnet, Foreign relations of the European Union, Politics of the European Union, Maria Damanaki, Papandreou, Stavros Dimas, Elections in Greece, Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Socialist International, George Papandreou
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Tags: Catherine Ashton, China, Herman Van Rompuy, European Union, prime minister, Belgium, Brussels, Ban Ki-moon, Foreign relations of the European Union, Poetic form, Haiku, Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission, Politics, Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Serbia, Liberal democracies, 21st century, Third country relationships with the European Union, National People's Congress, Wen Jiabao, Josᅢᄅ Manuel Barroso, Government of Sweden, Stockholm, Prime Ministers of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Carl Bildt, Environment
The case concerns inadequate waste disposal facilities in Sofia. Bulgaria should have had an adequate network of waste disposal installations in place by the time it joined the EU on January 1 2007 but no solution is in place. Sofia continues to rely...
Tags: Sofia Municipality, waste disposal, Belgium, Brussels, Sofia, Waste management, Waste, Environment, European Union, European Court of Justice, Bulgaria, Law of the European Union, European Commission, Electronic waste