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Incoming EU president pays quick visit to Finland
Helsinki :: Finland | 3 days ago
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Herman Van Rompuy, who was just appointed the first permanent President of the European Council, paid a quick visit to Helsinki, Finland on Wednesday at the invitation of Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. During their meeting, Van Rompuy and...
Tags: Herman Van Rompuy, Lisbon Treaty, Finland, Helsinki, European Union, Treaty of Lisbon, Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Lisbon, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Politics, Belgium, Federalism, European Union law, Diplomacy, European Commission
EU plans police exchange scheme
Brussels :: Belgium | 3 days ago
Credibility EU leaders are expected to approve the so-called Stockholm Programme at a summit in Brussels next week. The funding arrangements and other details are yet to be worked out. "We need more of a common understanding of other systems," said Swedish Justice...
Tags: Mrs. Catherine Ashton, European Commission, European Parliament, Ms Ashton, Lady Ashton, Baroness Ashton, European External Action Service, policy chief, security policy, Lisbon Treaty, Belgium, Brussels, European Union, Treaty of Lisbon, Javier Solana, President of the European Council, Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Politics, Politics of the European Union, Common Foreign and Security Policy, European Community, Institutions of the European Union, Euroscepticism, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Timothy Kirkhope, Federalism, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Union law, Amsterdam Treaty, Roger Helmer, European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
Treaty opens EU door to national parliaments
Brussels :: Belgium | 4 days ago
Credibility In the letter to speakers of the EU's 40 upper and lower chambers of parliament, seen by EurActiv, Barroso and outgoing Vice-President Margot Wallstr�m explain that "the new treaty recognises the central importance of national parliaments in the democratic...
Tags: Top European Union, Lisbon Treaty, Belgium, Brussels, European Union, Treaty of Lisbon, Josￃﾩ Manuel Barroso, European Parliament, Politics, Schengen Agreement, Parliament, Dhaka, European Commission, Schengen Luxembourg, Lisbon, European integration, European Union law, Treaty, Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, Democratic deficit in the European Union, Bangladesh
[Comment] Enlargement is the EU's strongest foreign policy tool
Bucharest :: Romania | 4 days ago
Credibility The Lisbon Treaty has been called everything from a complete failure to deliver on the initial lofty vision of a European superstate, to an ambitious new instrument injecting new energy into a half-a-century old historic project. Its entry into force...
Tags: Lisbon Treaty, Romania, Bucharest, European Union, Treaty of Lisbon, European Parliament, Opt-outs in the European Union, European Union law, Extension to qualified majority voting under the Treaty of Lisbon, Foreign relations of the European Union, European Commission
Sidelined by Europe again? --
Brussels :: Belgium | 5 days ago
Credibility The European Union (EU) has not included in the Lisbon Treaty a crucial article that was a feature of treaties between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. The Lisbon Treaty is the new ’constitution’’ of the EU and it will replace the...
Tags: ACP, European Commission, European Parliament, EC Treaty, acp countries, Caribbean, lisbon treaties, Lisbon Treaty, Joyce van Genderen-Naar, Sugar Protocol, Belgium, Brussels, International trade, Treaty of Lisbon, European Union, Lomￃﾩ Convention, Economic Partnership Agreements, Foreign relations of the European Union, African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
EC turns into EU
Brussels :: Belgium | 5 days ago
Credibility UNB, Dhaka The Head of European Union (EU) delegation in Dhaka, Ambassador Stefan Frowein Tuesday said that the EU will continue its trade and development activities in Bangladesh as before. "Trade will be as before," he said at a press conference at...
Tags: Lisbon Treaty, EU Constitution Comes, Swedish EU, EU Commission, lisbon treaties, European Union, foreign policy, world stage, eu presidency, Belgium, Brussels, Treaty of Lisbon, European Commission, Politics, European Parliament, Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, Herman Van Rompuy, Josￃﾩ Manuel Barroso, Federalism, Ratification, Politics of the European Union, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Lisbon, Treaty, Fredrik Reinfeldt, President of the European Council, Democratic deficit, Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland, European Union law, Amsterdam Treaty, EUobserver
Ukip offered Tories election deal over treaty
Brussels :: Belgium | 8 days ago
Credibility He said the Lisbon Treaty was the "last nail in the coffin" of Britain's democracy. The peer admitted he was "not much of a politician" but said that he might be appealing to voters disillusioned with the present system. He made the comments after being...
Tags: Pearson, lords pearson, UK Independence Party, UKIP, European Union, Rannoch, european elections, lisbon treaty, Lisbon, David Cameron, Belgium, Brussels, Politics, Malcolm Pearson Baron Pearson of Rannoch, United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage, Anglo-Scots, Old Etonians, Conservative Party, Richard Suchorzewski, Politics of the United Kingdom, International Democrat Union, Tory, Gerard Batten, Nikki Sinclaire, Life peers, Jacobitism, Georgian era, Business Finance, Mike Nattrass, George Osborne
MEPs await large extension of powers
Brussels :: Belgium | 12 days ago
Credibility MEPs are awaiting next week's entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty with impatience as the new institutional rules give the EU assembly a say in an array of new areas, including the EU's money-eating farm policy and its long-term budget...The rise in...
Tags: Catherine Ashton, Lisbon Treaty, Ms Ashton, foreign policy, Baroness Ashton, policy chief, europeans commission, Belgium, Brussels, Common Agricultural Policy, Treaty of Lisbon, European Commission, Parliament of the United Kingdom, European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament, European Union, European Court of Auditors, Political corruption, Federalism, William Hague, Miliband, Peter Mandelson, Gordon Brown, Jewish atheists, David Miliband, Life peers, Politics, Josￃﾩ Manuel Barroso, Nicolas Sarkozy, Charlie McCreevy, Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland
Leading article: Next stop, Copenhagen
Brussels :: Belgium | 14 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 | 14 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
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