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Leading article: Next stop, Copenhagen
Brussels :: Belgium | about 13 hours ago
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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 | about 21 hours 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
'Europe has shown it wants to be a supersize Switzerland'
Brussels :: Belgium | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
Centre-right asks for commissioners with Communist-free past
Brussels :: Belgium | 2 days ago
Credibility EU commissioner hopefuls will not win the approval of centre-right MEPs if they are considered to have collaborated with repressive Communist regimes or with governments 'tainted by corruption', the largest group in the European Parliament has indicated....
Tags: EU legislature, communist regimes, Belgium, Brussels, European Commission, European Union, Barroso Commission, Politics, President of the European Commission, Josￃﾩ Manuel Barroso, European Parliament
Europe Haggles Over Filling Presidential and Foreign Policy Posts
Brussels :: Belgium | 4 days ago
Credibility The European Union has spent eight years trying to modernize its rules and become a bigger global player. But now, facing a vote Thursday to finally pick a slate of new and more powerful leaders, it is falling back on old-fashioned backroom deal-making...
Tags: European Union, European Council, European Parliament, Swedish EU, Lisbon Treaty, Turkey, Brussels, eu presidency, eu leaders, prime minister, Belgium, Economy of the European Union, Federalism, Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Paavo Lipponen, Jean-Claude Juncker, Treaty of Lisbon, Vaira Vￄﾫￄﾷe-Freiberga, Politics, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, European Commission, Carl Bildt, Ed Miliband, Miliband, Jewish atheists, David Miliband, Common Foreign and Security Policy, United Nations, Future enlargement of the European Union, International recognition of Kosovo, Political systems
Energy labelling comes to windows and shower heads
Brussels :: Belgium | 4 days ago
Credibility The energy efficiency of a device is rated in terms of a set of energy efficiency classes from A to G on the label, with a dark-green-coded A the most energy efficient and a red-coded G the least efficient. "A+" and "A++" grades were later introduced...
Tags: energy efficiency, European Parliament, Belgium, Brussels, European Union law, Efficient energy use, Environment, Business Finance, Energy conservation, Energy policy, European Union energy label, Climate change, Industrial ecology, Carbon neutrality, Carbon footprint, Energy economics, Kyoto Protocol, European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Carbon offset, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Carbon finance, Emissions trading, Carbon credit
Nothing presidential about new EU president's job
Brussels :: Belgium | 5 days ago
Credibility Europhobes and Europhiles may rarely agree but they are conspiring – not for the first time – to foist a grand illusion on the European public. Tomorrow night, we are told, European Union leaders will meet in Brussels to choose the first president of...
Tags: Latvian Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Herman van Rompuy, European Council, Brussels, eu presidency, European Commission, European Union, Belgium, Prime minister, Van Rompuy I Government, Belgian government formation, Tony Blair, President of the European Council, European Parliament, Treaty of Lisbon, Politics of the European Union, Vaira Vￄﾫￄﾷe-Freiberga, Trimdon, David Miliband, Angela Merkel, Sedgefield, Politics, Gordon Brown, Miguel ￃﾁngel Moratinos, Josￃﾩ Luis Rodrￃﾭguez Zapatero, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Latvian language, Latvia, Kosovo￢ﾀﾓLatvia relations, Military history of Latvia during World War II, Latvian Legion
Blair’s Chances for Europe Presidency Said to Fade
Brussels :: Belgium | 5 days ago
Credibility Blair�s Chances for Europe Presidency Said to Fade Published: November 17, 2009 Britain is under pressure to abandon its campaign to install former Prime Minister Tony Blair in a new European Union presidential post and indicate whether it would instead...
Tags: EU Affairs, European Commission Subsequent, European Union, European council, prime minister, European Council, eu leaders, Herman Van Rompuy, Cecilia Malmström, Tony Blair, Belgium, Brussels, Margot Wallstrￃﾶm, Gunilla Carlsson, Gunilla, Prime Ministers of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Carl Bildt, Foreign minister, Josￃﾩ Luis Rodrￃﾭguez Zapatero, David Miliband, Treaty of Lisbon, Peter Mandelson, Politics, Cecilia Malmstrￃﾶm, European Commission, Commissioner, Environment, Miguel ￃﾁngel Moratinos, European Parliament, President of the European Council
Unholy hunt for an EU president shows the hypocrisy of states
Hong Kong :: China | 5 days ago
Credibility With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty by Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, the leaders of the 27 countries of the disunity known as the European Union are now free to take an important step backward on the tortuous road to give Europe global relevance...
Tags: European Parliament, Tony Blair, backs Blair, prime minister, eu president, Euroskeptic British, Angela Merkel, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Japan Language, China, Hong Kong, European Union, Peter Mandelson, G-20 major economies, Politics, International organizations, Treaty of Lisbon
Inside Europe: Lobbying Effort Backfires for Hedge Funds
Paris :: France | 5 days ago
Credibility The hedge fund industry has incurred a backlash by lobbying aggressively against proposed European Union rules and now faces possible pay curbs that were not envisaged in the original legislation. Attacks by some London-based hedge funds and British politicians...
Tags: hedge fund, E.U., fund managers, European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, investment companies, private equity, lobbying effort, France, Paris, Collective investment scheme, Investment management, Financial crisis of 2007￢ﾀﾓ2009, Carried interest, Investment, Financial services, Business Finance
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