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Van Rompuy faces difficult power balancing act
Brussels :: Belgium | about 17 hours ago
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New procedural rules being considered by member states show that EU president-designate Herman Van Rompuy will have to manage a delicate power balancing act with the country holding the rotating presidency when he takes up his duties on 1 January. Potentially...
Tags: pay rises, European Commission, Herman Van Rompuy, Mr Van Rompuy, Netherlands, eu civil, civil servants, Belgium, Brussels, European Union, Labor, Prime minister, Politics, EUobserver, Josￃﾩ Luis Rodrￃﾭguez Zapatero, Inflation, Labour Party, President of the European Council, Frans Timmermans, European Council, French Civil Service, Treaty of Lisbon, Federalism, Civil service, European Civil Service, Eurostat
"Tadić issues gag order on ministers"
Belgrade :: Serbia | 1 day ago
Credibility President Boris Tadi� has reportedly ordered state officials not to come up with public prognosis "that would irritate the Netherlands". Belgrade daily Danas writes that Tadi�'s "strict orders" concern all those officials directly or indirectly involved...
Tags: EU Council, Serbia, Belgrade, Bildt, Boris Tadi, trade agreement, European Union, Accession of Serbia to the European Union, Politics, Carl Bildt, Future enlargement of the European Union, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arrest and prosecution of Radovan Karadￅﾾiￄﾇ, Tanjug, Stabilisation and Association Process, Blic, Swedish nobility, Boris Tadiￄﾇ, Enlargement of the European Union, Personae non gratae, Politics of the European Union, Serge Brammertz, Republics, European Union Association Agreement, European Council, European integration, Accession of Iceland to the European Union, Balkans, Danas, Maxime Verhagen
Knesset calls to get tough on domestic violence
Jerusalem :: Israel | 2 days ago
Credibility The government should establish a national program to combat violence in the family, which would put Israel in line with recommendations recently issued by the European Council, MK Tzipi Hotovely, who chairs the Knesset Committee for the Status of Women,...
Tags: European Council, Israel Police, Knesset Committee, social workers, Israel, Jerusalem, Israeli Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Social Issues, Kadima, Ahmad Tibi, Violence against women, Domestic violence, Violence, Family therapy
Dominic Lawson: Europe will always be a foreign land for the British
Brussels :: Belgium | 3 days ago
Credibility You might have thought that it is only the red-top tabloid press which regards any European with an unfamiliar surname as inherently ridiculous...Even the more serious BBC political programmes, such as Newsnight, have been cracking juvenile jokes over...
Tags: Channel Tunnel, Mr Van Rompuy, European Council, Rome, Francois Mitterand, BBC, EU Parliament, British, EU HQ, Belgium, Brussels, Pope, Prince, Napoleon I of France, Politics, Herman Van Rompuy, Margaret Thatcher, Religion Belief
World economy grows again but risks remain, warns IMF
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility The world's leading economies have returned to positive growth for the first time since the spring of last year. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which comprises the 30 most-developed nations, said their combined growth rate...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Britain, CBI, prime minister, European Council, brown willing, Mr Brown, United Kingdom, London, Web search engine, Business Finance, Technology Internet, Internet search engines, Bing, Google, Economy, Macroeconomics, Chancellorship of Gordon Brown, Late-2000s recession, International economics, International Monetary Fund, International development, President of the European Council, Politics, Govan, Conservative Party, Financial crises, economics, Great Depression, Stock market crashes, Bailout
The European Union: a tyranny of no-marks
Brussels :: Belgium | 4 days ago
Credibility After weeks of speculation, Thursday evening’s news about who had got the top jobs in the post-Lisbon Treaty European Union couldn’t have been more underwhelming. To be installed as president of the European Council is the 63-year-old prime minister of...
Tags: Israeli, Belgium, Brussels, Trimdon, President of the European Council, David Miliband, European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, Treaty of Lisbon, Sedgefield, Tony Blair, Politics, Gaza, Israel-Gaza conflict, Hamas, Salam Fayyad, Gaza War, Palestinian nationalism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Gaza Strip, War Conflict
Leading article: Next stop, Copenhagen
Brussels :: Belgium | 5 days ago
Credibility 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
Lisbon Treaty heralds trickier EU relations
Bern :: Switzerland | 5 days ago
Credibility 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
The EU's nice stich-up | Ilana Bet-El
Brussels :: Belgium | 6 days ago
Credibility 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
Letters: Herman rains on Tone's parade
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Do I detect a certain regret that Tony Blair failed in his bid to become president of the European council ( Comment , Leaders , 20 November)? Is there a single person left in this country who does not share in the shame of the deceit over Iraq?
Tags: Tony Blair, Europe, United Kingdom, London, President of the European Council, Sedgefield, Trimdon, Politics, Iraq Dossier, Omagh, Haiku, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Herman Van Rompuy, War Conflict, Prime minister, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, European Council, Gordon Brown, Labour Party
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