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The embassy in Brussels is still trying to get a similar freeze on its accounts lifted.

For the future, it is not clear how much access Brussels lobbyists will enjoy.

Brussels believes that if Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan were to back the idea, however, Russia would have no legal power to stop it.

The "Manifesto of the Communist Party" was written in a few days of round-the-clock creative inspiration in Brussels in January 1848.

"A very small number" of European governments believe Afghanistan is on the front-line of the war on terror, says one senior Brussels man.

A large cargo plane crashed and broke apart close to a row of houses while trying to abort a takeoff Sunday at Brussels Airport.

The Brussels commission has restarted the formal merger review clock, which had been stopped while additional information was sought.

But at least nobody can accuse him of returning from Brussels with a piece of paper in his hand.

He said that it was up to the German government to clarify any concerns with Brussels.

The Studios Belvision of Brussels produce a full-length screen cartoon based on the book Prisoners of the Sun.

So rather than trying to exclude China, Brussels should streamline its economic policies to consolidate influence in its periphery.

Mr Sarkozy said the measures will form the basis for an agreement on fiscal governance at a European Union summit on Friday in Brussels.

He made the acquaintance in London, Paris, and Brussels of the important art dealers.

In Brussels, he took responsibility for competition policy and set about breaking down economic barriers.

Turkish generals started to mutter that they might have done better in Brussels if they had joined the Warsaw Pact, not NATO.

The focal point of debate was how much - not how little - decision-making would shift to Brussels.

Australia's trade minister, WT said the Washington and Brussels should not be expected to make all the.

Business would be disappointed if Lord Mandelson were moved less than a year after his return from Brussels.

And I believed that the Brussels-based elite was a "new class" that had confused its own interests with those of the continent of Europe.

Europe's transportation ministers decided to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss how and when to get planes back in the air.

But a senior German official dismissed the proposal as a "typical Brussels box of tricks" that would not pass muster with Merkel.

At a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the door for dialogue with Iran remained open.

All this goes well beyond what anyone in Brussels thought possible even a year ago.

Lufthansa said it had already notified Brussels competition authorities of the deal.

Mr. Almunia said the next EU-China High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue will take place next year in Brussels.

Instead, the British debate assumed Europe was a zero-sum game: anything gained by Brussels had been subtracted from Westminster.

Holbrooke, speaking at a debate in Brussels, said the plan would push for a "very significant increase" in the numbers of police.

Consumer confidence in the euro zone tumbled to its lowest level in two years, the Brussels-based European Commission said Thursday.

But the price of any EU bail-out of Greece is likely to be savage austerity measures, overseen by officials sent in from Brussels.

Eurosceptics in Britain may seize the moment to call for a repatriation of powers from Brussels.

Officials admitted that Mr Brown would be pushing hard for him in informal soundings in Brussels.

China came out of its shell three decades ago due to vigorous engagement with, not lectures from, Washington and Brussels.

Brussels gave the company six months to withdraw its current fee structure or face heavy daily penalties if it failed to comply.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the leaders meeting in Brussels took a step in the right direction.

The rules were designed to avoid overproduction but Brussels is now worried that there will not be enough cereals to meet demand.

In Brussels, Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said the rescue fund needed to be bigger.

The next day, a Friday, euro-zone leaders were due in Brussels for a quick meeting to approve the Greek package.

Moreover, its market is significantly large to justify it making rulings on mergers of a global nature, just as Brussels and Washington do.

Brussels fell to him on September 3 and Antwerp the next day.

I enjoyed playing in the centre of defence at such a difficult ground after playing at full-back in Brussels.

This was the message, too, that the foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, took to a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

Month after (winter) month, the nutritional experts recommend brussels sprouts as one of their top superfood picks. And with good reason .

Their joint letter to Brussels was an attempt to show they were on top of the crisis.

Some European officials have said Ukraine's leader will not be welcome in Brussels if Tymoshenko is still in jail when he visits.

During the last few minutes before the scheduled landing, Captain Lambrechts did not contact the Brussels airport.

A large cargo plane split in two while trying to take off a Brussels airport in Belgium.

Eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels in their latest attempt to plot a path out of the EU's worst crisis.

CENTURY, it seems, is not enough. One hundred years ago this year, the first world physics conference took place in Brussels, Belgium.

Whether the case will indeed turn into a full-blown conflict between Brussels and Washington is not certain.

'Without China, a car company has no future, ' says a Brussels-based car-industry lobbyist, who declined to be named.

Fabian Zuleeg, chief economist at the Brussels-based European Policy Center, says the United States is right to be concerned.

The Brussels gnomes are trying to create a superstate and undermining the member states.

At a press conference in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the first operation escorting a boat on had gone well .

The court's decision turned on a fine point of law, inspired by Brussels.

Brussels is firmly against, fearing that it would trigger currency instability, bank failures and competitive devaluations across the EU.

Mr. Sarkozy, who was in Brussels at a European Union meeting, did not comment on the demonstrations.

The word from Brussels appears to be that they should not get their hopes up.

Brussels insists these would be deployed temporarily and selectively, such as when there was "an imminent threat to financial stability" .

The card, with a picture of Brussels sprouts on the front, is made from potato starch paper and printed with food coloring.

The bottom line, says Brussels-based immigration expert Hugo Brady of the Center for European Reform, is a lack of trust.

The next phase of these negotiations could take place as euro-zone finance ministers meet late Tuesday in Brussels.

Instead, the disputes are more likely to take place in Brussels.

That's because, if ratified, it will become the decisive act in this creation of a federal European superstate with its capital in Brussels.

For all the fuss about Britain, the main failure in Brussels was to draw up a plan to save the euro.

Iserloh recently prepared cashew chicken and tossed Brussels sprouts at the end -- an unusual combination that she said was "so good. "

European officials in Brussels, unable to stop such actions, have charged Israel with illegality and obstructing peace.

David Cameron told a press conference in Brussels: "We stand ready to help in any way that we can. "

You may be able to use the specific compensation application forms available at the Luggage counter at Brussels-Midi.

If people in Brussels struggle to understand how troublesome Congress can be to an American administration, they should try this mental aid.

But however much support eBay can drum up in Brussels, it is unlikely to distract attention from the forthcoming decision in LVMH's lawsuit.

Beijing could offer additional market opening of its own in exchange for a change of Brussels antidumping policy.

The card, with a picture of Brussels sprouts on the front, is made from potato starch paper and printed with food colouring instead of ink.

However, Charlotte, in Brussels a year, leaving her the most impressive is the hot Egyptian President himself.

The treaty stimulates interaction between the institutions of Brussels and the national capitals; it brings a sense of purpose.

Italy's Romano Prodi, as European Commission president, met him in Brussels.

It is probably impolitic to mention that there might be benefits if Britain followed Brussels time rather than Greenwich Mean Time.

Two years of crisis in the eurozone came down to this Brussels summit.

This is supposed to be only a few pages long and drafted in direct talks between governments rather than by the Brussels bureaucracy.

So even though I ate out in Brussels yesterday, I plumped for a veggie option: a delicious Lebanese mezze.

They were thought to have been designed in Paris and woven in Brussels, then part of the Netherlands.

It would fly in the face of Brussels etiquette for a subset of the eurozone to go it alone.

"All daydreams, at least for now, " says Shada Islam of the European Policy Centre, a Brussels think-tank.

Fans protect themselves from the sun as they wait for the peloton to pass July 4 during the first stage between Rotterdam and Brussels.

The road map shows that some of that conference's ambitions still resonate in Brussels.

Brussels said manufacturers and processors in Europe were at risk of going bust if the flow of exports from China was not restarted.

But there were a few surprising exceptions: Men were much more likely to eat asparagus, brussels sprouts, peas and peanuts.

However, at the moment, the politics of Washington are even more dysfunctional than those of Brussels.

In Brussels, native English-speakers are notoriously hard for colleagues to understand: they talk too fast, or use obscure idioms.

Far from adding dignity to the business of the council, the mock-bronze inadvertently honours the Brussels tradition of making do.

But all who attend are waiting to see what solutions Brussels might offer to the copyright imbroglio.

In recent months, a number of companies have filed fresh complaints to Brussels, claiming to have been hurt by Google's practices.

But he is a broadly restraining influence on it and, with so much to do at home, he will hardly relish fights with Brussels.

But Tymoshenko, with her trademark blond peasant braid, also has supporters in Brussels, the seat of the European Union.

However, in the same period it has weakened against the euro, much to the displeasure of Brussels.

As the skies over euroland darken, at least the jokes in Brussels are getting better.

She currently lives in Brussels with her husband, son and two cats, where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard.

Reinfeldt wants nominations for the two jobs by the end of the month, when an EU summit in Brussels should decide on a consensus.

Osborne said it was essential for the plan agreed at last week's Brussels summit to be implemented, "including in Greece" .

In reaction to his victory, leaders in Brussels and Washington were among the first to congratulate him.

Big countries such as France and Germany are not prepared to let Brussels decide matters of vital national interest.

Policymakers in Brussels will hardly focus on another trade round when a euro member is about to go bust.

In Brussels the near-universal call is to hold an Africa summit mainly because there has not been one for a long time.

The economic crisis has seen governments across the continent reframe Brussels as part of the problem rather than a solution.

Australia's trade minister, Warren Truss, says Washington and Brussels should not be expected to make all the concessions.

He secured a cheerful photo with Angela Merkel days after a diplomatic punch-up in Brussels.

Less than half had ratified the Rome Convention, and a mere 28 Member States had ratified the Brussels Satellite Convention.

"It looks like we now are on the verge of a paradigm change, " says Peter Harling of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based lobby.

Freed from the red tape of Brussels, England is now the favored destination of Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe.

Two years later, rumors of a common European energy policy are again circling Brussels.

If it appears that Hungary failed properly to implement the relevant EU laws, Brussels may open an investigation.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian scientists are developing a cuddly green robot to help ease the anxieties of children in hospital.

The move represents a potentially fatal blow to the deal, which must be approved at a shareholders' meeting on Wednesday in Brussels.

The priority in Brussels is for smooth management over the next six months, not bust-ups over press freedom.

At a summit in Brussels, Nicolas Sarkozy said "solutions" would be found for those that had expressed concerns.

Fabian Zuleeg, chief economist at the European Policy Center in Brussels, says the United States is right to get involved.

This statue of a woman riding a beast is outside the capitol of the European Union in Brussels Belgium.

The current turmoil in Europe is an opportunity for the UK to refashion its relationship with Brussels, David Cameron has said.

That is bound to bring more fiscal-policy control from Brussels, turning the euro zone into a more politically integrated club.

The dollar was slightly firmer and the euro weakened as European Finance Ministers met in Brussels with no concrete results of the meeting.

Euro zone finance ministers are scheduled to meet in Brussels on Monday as they search for the right message to soothe skittish investors.

At a meeting in Brussels, they said they were appalled by the high number of civilian casualties in the fighting.

France is resisting Brussels' suggestion the tests are done by a panel of European experts rather than its own Nuclear Safety Authority.

Beyond dispute is the fact that the EEC nations have already transferred varying degrees of national sovereignty to Brussels .

At a press conference in Brussels, E. U. economic affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia summed up the year for the 27-member bloc.

The negotiations in Brussels are the first between the two sides since Kosovo unilaterally broke away from Serbia three years ago.

It is all very well for Brussels types to fuss about parity between big countries and small, north and south, or left and right, she argues.

In Brussels Mr Cameron tells the EU to beware of breaking up the single market, and stoutly defends free-trade rules that apply to all.

Instead, the word "ISDA" has become distinctly toxic in Washington and Brussels' political circles.

But Brussels should remember that detecting public support is not the same thing as actual democracy: just ask any Soviet-era comic.

Officials in Brussels insisted on Wednesday there would be no rescue package for Rome, saying, "financial assistance is not on the cards" .

Two packed commuter trains have crashed head-on outside Brussels, killing at least 18 people and injuring many others.

But the outcome of the Brussels meeting is much more likely to end up as a footnote in the history books than a bold new chapter.

Woman: Just a couple of days, then we went by bus from Berlin to Brussels.

Whatever the Brussels shenanigans, the City will not lose much to continental Europe or America.

Sheldon: Not for me. Thursday is now Cruciferous Vegetable Night. Tonight's selection: Brussels sprouts.

It is also one of the European Union's most densely settled areas: only Copenhagen, Brussels and Paris are more densely populated.

As Eurocrats in Brussels are keen to stress, far from breaking up, the euro zone is growing.

Brussels is the capital of Belgium and is an old and beautiful city.

European leaders converge on Brussels Sunday for a crucial summit aimed at forging a plan to save the euro currency.

BRUSSELS - A female judge and a court clerk were shot dead in a court in downtown Brussels on Thursday.

You do not find much appetite in Brussels for a repeat performance.

When politicians discuss the single currency's crisis in Brussels, their actions are invariably seen by markets to be too little, too late.

Away from the market, the talk is of how the industry's spokesmen are getting on in Brussels.

Take Brussels. If Flanders breaks away from Belgium, could Brussels, officially bilingual but overwhelmingly Francophone, leave Flanders?

A start needs to be made at the European Council meeting of the heads of state and government in Brussels in mid-October.

European Union leaders are preparing to meet for a closely-watched Brussels summit on the fate of the euro.

Exchanges have been accused, by some, of seizing on the new regulatory mood in Washington and Brussels to promote their businesses.

In the early hours of May 10th finance ministers, meeting in Brussels, agreed on an extensive scheme of repairs for the euro zone.

Verhofstadt calls for an extension of democracy in Brussels, specifically more powers for the European Parliament.

EUROPEANS have learned to let their attention drift when Brussels starts droning on about "process" .

European leaders agreed earlier this month to submit their budgets to Brussels for scrutiny six months earlier than they used to.

NH Grand Place Arenberg is quietly located in Brussels and only a 5-minute walk from Grand Place and the train station.

Blaming Serbia for the trouble, the European Union postponed the latest round of talks in Brussels between the two countries.

As EU politicians desperately try to save euro, plans emerge to deepen the union, widening Brussels regulatory powers.

The talk in Brussels used to be of Europe as a global actor.

The countries' prime ministers met at an Asia-Europe summit in Brussels and said they would mend strained relations.

They talked about betrayal and humiliation of the Serb people and sick fancy of this government here in Serbia towards Brussels.

She was appointed (not elected) by the Labour Party to the House of Lords, from where she was sent to Brussels as trade commissioner.

That will be a salutary shock for those who think the EU is run out of Brussels by France and Germany.

The Brussels gathering did little to help Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the zone's most troubled economies.

Q: We are planning a trip to the British Isles this summer with a side trip to Brussels.

In my mind, Brussels is like a city of angels and I can hardly wait to go there.

In Washington they are arguing about a debt ceiling; in Brussels they are staring into a debt abyss.

In a paper for Bruegel, a Brussels think-tank, Jens Henriksson, a former official in the Swedish finance ministry, lays out the lessons.

Voices on the left charge that Mr Sarkozy has ceded too much to Brussels over the car industry.

a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages ; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts.

By Brussels standards, it was a jaw-dropping moment, like hearing a cardinal harangue the king in high mass.

Researchers point out that dark-green leafy vegetables -- Brussels sprouts, spinach, broccoli -- are all good sources of the vitamin.

For years Brussels has demanded that Croatia crack down on crime and corruption.

The Eurocrat elite in Brussels might not admit it, but the Treaty of Lisbon is essentially a constitution for a "country" called Europe.

Airport congestion in India made for a logistical nightmare -- forcing Jet to open an international hub 4, 000 miles from home, in Brussels.

Finance ministers of other countries, as well as Brussels officials, have stood stony-faced as airlines looked for succour in recent years.

Brussels had complained that safety standards were being used to exclude foreign companies.

Trade disputes between Brussels and Beijing are on the rise since the EU's trade deficit with China has ballooned.

That would make Nokia one of the few major European technology companies to bring a case in Brussels.

To achieve increased retirement ages everywhere, what is known in Brussels jargon as the "open method of co-ordination" would be employed.

The Brussels institutions can project only as much influence as their sponsors in national capitals allow them.

An EU regulation, commonly called "Brussels II" , sets out the criteria for people wanting to start a divorce within the EU.

There is a strong resolve in Brussels to do whatever it takes, recognising that economic failure would hurt more than Europe's amour propre.

Brussels has warned Ukraine that, were it to join this customs union, it would jeopardise its partnership with the EU.

The next time protesters hit Brussels, they may not just march past the commission, but right into it.

From being masters of the universe two years ago, hedge-fund managers now fear becoming servants of Brussels.

She interpreted two hours of an environment committee meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium last week.

But diplomats at the talks in Brussels say Britain and Germany have rejected a draft that calls for an immediate ceasefire.

Brussels' second probe centres on mainframe maintenance services, and is being brought on the Commission's own initiative.

The European Commission, a UNEP partner, located in Brussels, is tied to the report as well.

The system was developed by ERTICO, a transport research organization based in Brussels, Belgium.

The buzzwords in the corridors of the commission's Berlaymont building in Brussels are "discipline, surveillance and enforcement" .

Merely to set out these purported achievements of the latest EU summit in Brussels is to show how hollow they are (see article).

Mr Brown thought it might be Brussels, recalling Lord Mandelson from there.

Such views are unpopular among the main member governments, which want to clip Brussels' wings and curb EU spending.

That's just one of the predictions expressed by international dairy expert Ynte Hein Schukken at a recent Pfizer meeting, in Brussels.

A woman prays in Brussels during the 31st annual Taize ecumenical community celebration.

Brussels cannot escape responsibility for the long-term trend of rising use of trade remedies in emerging markets.

Efforts to rescue Europe from its debt problems through new EU regulations were being fiercely debated in Brussels on Monday.

Winning the approval of Brussels is the remaining hurdle for the pair, after shareholders of both exchanges last month approved the deal.

But economist Carsten Brzeski at ING Bank in Brussels says it was a disaster waiting to happen.

Remember the Easter holidays in April, the author in Brussels "urinating children" next encountered a unit of the national delegations.

An emergency military transport had to shuttle him to Brussels .

Chickens slaughtered in the United States, claim officials in Brussels, are not fit to grace European tables.

The former defence secretary Robert Gates set out Washington's frustrations in his valedictory speech to Nato allies in Brussels.

Ever since the Eurostar linked Lille by high-speed rail to London and Brussels in 1994, services, and tourism in particular, have boomed.

European leaders gathering for a summit in Brussels on Thursday are sprinting to resolve the crisis in Greece.

Solvay is an international chemical and pharmaceutical group with headquarters in Brussels.

The task of the Brussels commission is to sustain whatever it controls that contributes to Europe's economic growth.

Brussels officials will exercise unprecedented powers of intervention over national budgets, tax policies, labour markets.

Groups of women also gathered in cities around the world, including New York, Tokyo and Brussels.

All of these rising parties rail against "elites" , whether in Brussels, Wall Street or their own governments.

The country is very small, lacking commodity wealth, and with a gross domestic product of only $40bn (about the same as Brussels).

The issue for policymakers in Brussels, Frankfurt and Athens is one of timing.

So four years on - and my last European summit as a correspondent based here in Brussels is fast approaching.

Our correspondent in Brussels Chris Morris says reaching agreement at the summit will not be easy.

It can be seen as an attempt to pre-empt moves in Brussels to question the very principles of shareholder capitalism.

Even before Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979, rows over the budget had become a theme of Britain's presence in Brussels.

No longer will Brussels and the richer North turn a blind eye to the spending and shenanigans of the poorer South.

A surgeon in Brussels called anDreas Vesalius and a French surgeon called Ambroise Pare both studied anatomy in the 16th century.

NATO envoys have been meeting at the organization's Brussels headquarters for several days to discuss the issue.

The blueprint will be presented to other European leaders at a Brussels summit at the end of the week.

A few years ago Jeremy Rifkin, an American author, published a book called The European Dream, which made a great splash in Brussels.

To Brussels' irritation, Beijing has encouraged this by routinely circumventing the commission to deal directly with national capitals.

The fragility of the financial systems in several eastern European countries dominated an emergency summit in Brussels.

But talk to officials in Brussels or business chiefs across the continent, and anxiety is building.

This curious triangular geometry was on display the other day at the summit of European Union leaders in Brussels.

Tip Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, chili peppers, artichokes, berries, kiwis, and pineapple are excellent selections.

The offices are located in Brussels, Geneva, London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington.

Uwe Kitzinger, a British academic and former official in Brussels, called them "a form of delayed war reparations" .

Mr De Gucht has seized on the notion of a case initiated by Brussels as a way to shield companies.

In front of the cameras, it was all smiles at Sunday's summit in Brussels.

The Dutch have advocated an "intervention ladder" of progressively more Brussels control over policymaking in wayward countries.

Nobody in Brussels doubts that the next six months will be unusually dynamic.

Since Brussels uses similar methods to calculate duties, it's reasonable to conclude a similar pattern exists in Europe.

In short, there is no consensus in the euro zone for an ambitious transfer of sovereignty to Brussels.

CAN Portugal, Ireland and Greece get through the latest spikes in their bond prices without some help from Brussels, or from the IMF?

Further talks are scheduled in Brussels in January but the European Commission said it would restart legal proceedings if they broke down.

There is another conundrum: should the power to tell countries how to run their economies rest with governments or in Brussels?

Do not pass Brussels, do not collect two hundred euros. If they even still exist.

Meeting to discuss the situation in Brussels this week, a number of ministers and senior officials shrugged on news of the election.

The main business lobby group in Brussels is opposed as well.

A different official will represent the IMF at meetings of eurozone leaders that Mr Strauss-Kahn was due to attend in Brussels today.

Its officials hired a lobbying firm, gave media interviews voicing its suspicions, and appealed to the European Commission in Brussels.

Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych (see photo) made an embarrassing geography mistake during his visit to Brussels, Pravda reported.

The Brussels institutions are adept at finding "cross-border issues" that would justify an expansion in their powers.

The euro was introduced on the back of two errors, which the complacent policy crowd in Brussels rarely bothered to challenge.

International organization of the European rail industry suppliers, based in Brussels.

This now happens even in Brussels, especially since the non- French-speaking eastern Europeans joined in 2004.

"To make Sarkozy wait ten minutes is impossible, " sighs one Brussels official: "So he has the impression she's slow; but she's German. "

European Union leaders are expected to approve a permanent bailout fund for debt-strapped eurozone members during a summit in Brussels.

and despite the huffing and puffing from brussels , the government is still reluctant to dismantle its antiquated system on safety grounds.

According to International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based organisation, 96% of the inmates of the main national prison have not been tried.

Eurocrats have reasons to be anxious, as their tans fade under leaden Brussels skies.