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The European Union President Herman van Rompuy said the programme would be financed by the EU, the IMF and the private sector.

The statement said the EU travel ban and asset freeze on sanctions list of new officers and a pro-Gaddafi, the Libyan airline.

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

With all the protection the EU has in place, it was surprising to see it was a hotspot for biodiversity loss.

The rest of the EU is already beginning to feel a little further away.

Every time there is an EU summit and an announcement of a new deal to solve the crisis, markets bounce for a few days.

It is often said that in the face of the euro crisis the EU must either integrate or disintegrate.

The EU's leaders, who seem to lurch from one crisis summit to the next, will have no capacity left to focus on global challenges.

There is nothing to stop this in the EU rules, if Mr Blair is appointed president, so long as it is not "in connection with his duties" .

The European Union followed up in July 2005 with its savings tax directive designed to catch funds being held offshore by taxpayers.

The True Finns' chances probably rest on the degree to which Mr Soini is prepared to compromise his anti-EU position.

And, like the constitution, it failed to meet the objectives laid down by an EU summit in Laeken almost seven years ago.

Certain European nations are trying to move the goalposts so that some of their Eastern neighbours will find it easier to join the EU .

In its filing, China is requesting consultations with the EU to try to resolve the matter.

Arcane discussions about treaty change and rows about Britain's place in Europe have been the stuff of EU summits for literally generations.

But both speakers said the EU should allow countries to set higher capital standards if national circumstances required them.

Germany's Angela Merkel made clear two years ago that, if Russia wanted better relations with the EU, it had to mend fences with Poland.

Many airlines have given much higher assessments of the cost and said the EU was being unfair.

So it is tempting to shrug off the announcement on November 26th that China pulled out of an EU-China summit, at less than a week's notice.

With the Arab spring turning into a hot summer, the gaze of EU diplomats will no doubt be drawn across the Mediterranean.

Ireland rejected the idea of aligning EU corporate taxes (or at least the tax base) as a danger to its low-tax growth model.

A statement by foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) even seemed to equate the recognition of Israel with that of Palestine.

The relationship between EU countries and Mr Wolfowitz had always been strained as a result of his involvement in the Iraq conflict.

At least as important as the intrinsic policy problems is the changing nature of influence within the EU.

Greece has formally asked for the activation of an EU-IMF financial rescue package to help pull the debt-ridden economy out of its crisis.

But yesterday the EU delegation told the conference that these did not add up to a deal that would satisfy UN-backed scientific advice.

The EU ducked the matter in Copenhagen by giving Ankara a "date for a date" to start accession negotiations.

Parts of the EU are now mature enough to understand, at least conceptually, that there is not much money around.

He proposes a grand bargain: swap Britain's veto over European integration for the right to opt out of any EU policy area.

Employers should be encouraged to introduce equal pay and EU social funds used to help close pay gaps, he said.

If it was seen to cave in to EU political pressure a second time, the blow to its credibility could prove terminal.

Once upon a time, the outcomes of European Union summits were, at best, of purely local interest.

Ashton said the EU would take China's development as an important opportunity to work with China to expand trade, investment and employment.

After all, that is how the European Union was created, taking one step at a time, knowing full well that additional steps would be required.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he would recommend sending peacekeepers at the next EU foreign ministers meeting next month.

A few months ago, I found myself sitting next to a senior EU official who turned out to have read my book.

On Wednesday, EU spokesman Olivier Bailly said the calls for an economic government were a step in the right direction.

To its east, the EU has tried a bit harder to promote political reform, due in part to the demands of its ex-communist members.

An EU official said the comments did not apply to the world's poorest states, which will be most vulnerable to climate change.

He said the "socio-economic criteria are problematic, " adding that EU rules needed clarification on this point.

Overall, Barroso said, the EU has decided to boost its humanitarian emergency funding to Pakistan more than tenfold, to about $100 million.

It is hard to remain an unabashed eurosceptic when you see how much EU membership meant to countries such as Poland or Slovakia .

Power said it was unclear whether the commission could end the duties on its own, or if EU governments would be able to weigh in.

France is one of three EU countries with a fertility rate above the magic replacement level (Denmark and Ireland are the others).

But it was not a normal EU presidency, at least as other countries conceive of such things.

BRICS countries are able to do better than EU in terms of coordination.

But just as EU accession has made it easier for workers to move west , it has made life harder for would -be migrants from further east .

Thus Britain would have to hold a referendum to adopt the single currency or to cede its vetoes over EU foreign policy, for instance.

Let me give you a few examples of how the EU has developed over the last two decades.

Indeed, Belgium might be seen as a microcosm of the EU, with a wealthy, Germanic north fed up with subsidising a poorer, Latin south.

And I promise that in the New Year, we will continue to work with you to further promote the growth of China-EU ties.

The EU's response, stretched over the next couple of years, is inevitably going to be a messy compromise.

Officials point to another poll finding that, of those who plan to vote in a referendum, 62% favour joining the EU.

He said EU retaliation would be 'moderate' and 'sectoral' -- trade jargon for focusing on specific industrial sectors.

Many will look to see how firm his commitment to higher rates really is in the face of the continued sovereign debt troubles in the EU.

Yet no celebration in Berlin can hide the fact that the EU is in something of a mid-life crisis.

Freed from its internal wrangling, the EU would be able to turn outward and face the real world.

The WTO on Friday said the Appellate Body upheld earlier findings that part of the EU's dumping rules were inconsistent with WTO rules.

If you're studying in the UK, you may be able to obtain a VAT refund if you're planning to leave the EU for at least 12 months.

That EU members often do not live up to the rules is no reason for the Balkans not to do so.

Mr. Cohen said he believed the EU would follow the U. S. and take an expansive view of what constitutes Col. Gadhafi's assets.

The founders of the EU believed its purpose was more than economic advantage and that the project demanded a sense of mutual solidarity.

Feng was upbeat about Sino-EU relations, which he said "have shown great momentum in their trade ties and cooperation in various areas" .

It will be a relief not to have another man in a suit or, this being the EU, a troika of men in suits.

It had been losing ground since Friday amid market disappointment at the outcome of the EU summit.

He said China supports the integration of the EU and would like to see the EU play a more active role in European and international affairs.

This is not just a question of non - participation in the euro, the Schengen passport - free zone or EU justice and home- affairs policies.

Even the French, who for decades ran the EU as equal partners with the Germans, are acquiring something of an inferiority complex.

EU antidumping measures also had been down in recent years, as the bloc moved to encourage free trade.

If nobody can find more convincing arguments in favour of the Lisbon treaty, the EU as a whole may yet find itself whistling in the dark.

The court seems to think the EU has a "democratic deficit" that is best filled at the national level, not through the European Parliament.

The EU was missing a common treasury, he noted, which could have served as a last resort to fall back on in the time of a debt crisis.

The Franco-German proposal to transform the EU or at least the eurozone into a fiscal union is such a project.

Just a few months time, the EU's 14 member states and 12 other European countries have decided to join the European car-free day campaign.

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

There is no doubt that the increase in protectionism is a matter of concern for the EU countries.

It's far from guaranteed that the EU would even be able to speak with a single voice on the issue.

It had hoped that just the promise of EU support, agreed last month, would have been be enough to reassure markets and help its recovery.

"Romania and Hungary are certainly more fiscally irresponsible than if they had not been members of the EU, " Mr Booth says.

For all her sound instincts and skills as a politician, she appears to have no vision for the EU.

In a different era, all this might have caused great worry in Britain and, as a result, generated even more tension within the EU.

The European Union, another traditional global leader, will need at least another year or two to sort out the euro mess.

Mr Cameron was heckled as he said the timing for such a vote was wrong with the EU facing an economic crisis.

Just like the US and EU almost unashamedly prefer Medvedev to Putin, the Chinese equally unashamedly seem to prefer Putin to Medvedev.

Britain was the most burgled country in the EU, although it had more burglar alarms than any country except Ireland.

Even so, the promise came with a caveat: that the speed of enlargement must take account of the EU's "absorption capacity" .

Yet with the review now at a critical stage, the EU appears ready to give way to protectionist voices in its member states.

Germany, the bloc's biggest economy, has said EU nations must be ready to help each other but has not explained how.

The EU already has its own list, and its transport commissioner, Antonio Tajani, said such a list would be a "safety guarantee for all" .

It may be helpful that Slovenia, another bit of former Yugoslavia, currently holds the six-monthly rotating EU presidency.

Even so, the promise came with a caveat: that the speed of enlargement must take account of the EU's "absorption capacity" .

Yet with the review now at a critical stage, the EU appears ready to give way to protectionist voices in its member states.

Germany, the bloc's biggest economy, has said EU nations must be ready to help each other but has not explained how.

The EU already has its own list, and its transport commissioner, Antonio Tajani, said such a list would be a "safety guarantee for all" .

It may be helpful that Slovenia, another bit of former Yugoslavia, currently holds the six-monthly rotating EU presidency.

Iran's nuclear program was one of many issues discussed during talks between U. S. President George Bush and EU leaders.

For all the bluster, one can't help feeling the tough EU stance is a bit of a bluff.

The US and European Union have complained that Beijing is not doing enough to crack down on intellectual property theft.

Spain is often cited as the big EU economy most in need of labour-market reform.

True enough. Yet despite all that, the EU has not done enough to quell the markets.

Spain is often cited as the big EU economy most in need of labour-market reform.

True enough. Yet despite all that, the EU has not done enough to quell the markets.

It was only a week after the Annan plan failed that Cyprus joined the EU as a divided island.

This is something of a paradox, given how deeply the EU permeates the lives of its citizens.

With a quiet session ahead data wise in London be cognizant of headlines pertaining to the EU debt crisis as instigators of moves.

Germany cannot defy the gravity that has pulled much of the EU region close to recession, and some parts of it to negative GDP growth.

The EU and US have been struggling over which would have the initiative in dealing with Iran, notably over the last two years.

Future British governments would have to be mad to call a referendum on an EU treaty.

'Let's put all that together and say Germany and the EU have got deep pockets but how much can they really help out here?

The EU is likely to crack down on excessive government budget deficits, which could prompt Italy to leave the currency regulation, it said.

The EU is likely to crack down on excessive government budget deficits, which could prompt Italy to leave the currency regulation, it said.

The EU is supposed to have two battle groups, contingents of about 1, 500 troops ready to deploy at a few days' notice.

At its worst, this might be the start of a process by which Britain falls out of the EU (see Bagehot).

The number of people in each age group in the population pyramid [chart to be shown] reveals something of the EU's history.

Take full account of the global nature of the problem and shape the EU's contribution to international responses.

So the court wants to ensure that Germany does not surrender to the EU any of the core powers of a democratic state.

There will come a point when the EU will no longer be in a position to help, even if it wants to.

Nevertheless, confined by jurisdiction, EU's codification bears some special particularities different from that of the tradition.

At least 23 EU countries will now endeavour to hammer out a new separate stability pact with teeth over the next three months.

EU rules require such a mission to be sent to a country asking for financial aid, to establish the details of the help needed.

The matter seemed to be winding down after most were released in the face of a strong response from the EU.

If there was an informal European Union championship for street protest then Greece and France would be the two most regular winners.

Der Spiegel magazine said the EU could time such a pledge to coincide with granting aid to Portugal.

For a more comprehensive EU position, it referred to the statement made at the First IIM in April.

As if to make the point, the EU failed this week to secure speaking rights at the United Nations.

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

Even when the EU issues a statement of concern on human rights, it is often not backed by a comprehensive strategy for change.

The EU's energy relationship with Russia was one of "positive interdependence" , Mr Barroso said.

It is often said that the EU's inexorable enlargement means no country can now "make the weather" in Europe, as Germany and France once did.

Blatter wants to fight European employment law which currently means it would be illegal to set limits on foreign players within the EU.

Mr Blair, for all his political qualities and purportedly pro-European views, has never been a comfortable operator on the EU stage.

All this was to be supervised by national governments, not the European Commission, the EU's civil service.

Details on how this would work are sketchy but an EU official said the scheme could be enacted in a week or two.

By wimping out of that, the EU has no ammunition left.

Instead, comments one EU diplomat, Mr Sarkozy seems to see Europe as a backdrop for his own bilateral deal-making.

It is clear that The EU's founding fathers did not for a moment feel any need to measure the impact of their policies.

In a world in which China and India will each have a population three times that of the EU, anything else is completely out of date.

Some of this was protest voting. But a chunk reflects views deeply antithetical to all that the EU stands for.

Implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive provides a real opportunity for targeted action in certain EU countries, " he said. "

Back in Cancun, the EU wanted to see if other developed countries would follow suit. In Durban, they've found new partners.

European Union leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to help Greece out of its current debt woes and maintain EU financial stability.

But, for all the talk of pan-European solidarity, one cost of this credit-line will be a sharp increase in political tensions within the EU.

Denmark is an important member of the European Union (EU) and is known as the "Kingdom of fairy tales" and "land of happiness" .

The EU is in many respects more similar to Belgium than to any of its large member states.

EU finance ministers last week were unable to agree on how, or by how much, to increase the EFSF's resources.

It is not hard to see why: to Belgian leaders trapped in the national equivalent of a bad marriage, the EU's free love must look like bliss.

And Samaras said he would not sign on behalf of any party where the proposed aid by the EU conditions.

The scheme is open to EU countries that do not use the euro: Poland and Sweden say they will sign up to it; Britain says it will not.

Most of his MPs understand that while much of the public may dislike the EU, they also distrust politicians who seem obsessed with it.

If enlargement had really gummed up the works of the EU, you would expect to see a large number of vital dossiers blocked by unanimity.

At best, EU bureaucrats can be naive about how much integration ordinary voters will bear.

Romania had encouraged Moldovans to obtain Romanian citizenship, even though Moldova was not in the EU, he said.

"Any of the big companies who aim at a global leadership must see the EU as a natural part of their growth journey, " he said.

Counterfeiting has a major adverse effect on the economies of the EU and on the number jobs. Business considers it a serious problem.

And less than a year after the Lisbon treaty came into force, the EU is talking of a new treaty.

What really irks the Kremlin is that Mr Yanukovych is trying to get lower gas prices from Russia even as he knocks at the EU's door.

The bankruptcy of a major bank or an EU member state would be enough to trigger the next global downturn.

He says it is important that this summit occurred in a relatively young democracy - part of a post Cold War growth spurt in EU membership.

An EU that helps to restore prosperity to its members may also be able to rekindle its citizens' enthusiasm for itself.

In October, the advocate general in a preliminary opinion said the EU was acting within the law.

She referred to five other EU countries which had invoked the safeguard clause for banning the cultivation of MON810 maize.

She said the proposal is in line with the EU's twin-track approach of using both dialogue and sanctions to target Iran's atomic program.

In Italy, scandal hit Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the only leader of a large EU member state to stand as head of an electoral list.

It has had a good crisis, being the only EU country to avoid a recession, at least so far.

The Lisbon treaty is meant to streamline the workings of the enlarged EU and give it a stronger voice in the world.

Russ Knocke, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the US was "comfortable" with the EU having a reciprocal system.

Mr Sutherland said the next few years would show whether EU leaders could match their rhetoric with action.

But in fact both approaches reflect a desire to see a reasonably cohesive EU as well as a viable euro.

Americans are right that such advances are imperilled when leaders like Nicolas Sarkozy of France say Turks have no place in the EU.

The case may be an act of desperation by an old guard whose power is waning as EU-inspired changes take hold.

However, it does not mean that there is no conflict between China and EU, the bilateral relations do not surpass the ideological conflict.

The EU has not realised how much risk transfer occurs across different categories of finance that can escape sectoral regulation.

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, said he would consult European Union leaders on a possible boycott of the opening ceremony.

Carrizo claimed to have an Italian great grandfather, which would have allowed him to be registered as a non-EU player.

Until a few days ago Croatia looked like the tail of the procession of ex-communist countries joining the EU.

Germany and France are trying to put flesh on the bones of a crisis resolution plan in time for the EU summit.

All this goes far beyond what EU officials thought possible a year ago.

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Although the EU listed China into the "Revised country" in 1998, it did not mean that the EU recognized China as a market economy country.

Now her spokesman declares that "if a request were made to the EU, Germany would live up to its responsibilities" .

And far from isolating Britain diplomatically, the vision is shared by another big EU player and aspiring leader of any core: France.

Last night the prime minister went further, suggesting that Britain's membership of the EU was no longer a given.

There was more condemnation of North Korea from Russia, EU and the UK, although China - the North's main ally - refused to apportion blame.

The next day, the European Union (EU) filed a counter claim against the American government's aid to Boeing.

A giant in a Europe of diplomatic pygmies, Mr Bildt would make a fine EU foreign-policy chief.

Sweden is trying to build a consensus on its proposals within the EU council of ministers.

We have been pleased to see the sizable growth of two-way business between the EU countries and China.

GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13. 4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching.

In Angela Merkel, Germany also has one of the few EU leaders able to translate national power into international influence.

As a relatively big country, and a member of the EU and NATO, Greece can scarcely plead persecution from its small northern neighbour.

For dealmakers, that means China's Commerce Ministry can be as much of a spoiler as the FTC and the EU commission.

Russia strongly criticized the EU and the U. S. side to strengthen sanctions against Iran, saying such a move "unacceptable. "

The British will then be expected to transfer loyalty and affection to the EU and devote themselves increasingly to its wellbeing.

As is often the case with EU directives, the end result will probably differ greatly from this week's wish list.

The French prime minister has reiterated his desire to see the EU arms embargo on China lifted, branding it "an anachronism" .

How much do you spend on the product of Eu Yan Sang at each month?

Sources close to the Minister say the delay is not related to concerns over such a payment being made available to children of EU migrants.

But it would take a bout of wilfully destructive protectionism and the demise of the EU's main institutions to turn that into disaster.

Some claims are, frankly, mad: a leaflet given out in Cork claims that Lisbon would let the EU bring in a Chinese-style one-child policy.

It should improve the EU's industrial competitiveness with a potential for the creation of up to two million jobs.

It is common to hear that a No vote in a small country cannot be permitted to interfere with the smooth running of the EU.

Next, I'm going to brief you with the sets of standards referred to by the US and the EU when judging a country's market economy status.

On the China-EU relations, Yang said the Sino-EU ties is one of the most important bilateral relationships in today's world.

Although there was no evidence of the product coming into the EU, member states were alerted.

What's more, the EU navy was reportedly to be the first to have issued the news. Will China have contact with the EU on this case?

EU was the first community to establish the sunset review system, which had a history of 25 years.

Wen's meeting with the experts and scholars to attend the China-EU Think Tank Roundtable Conference turned out to be a heated talk.

Later, as EU leaders tried to agree terms for sending monitors to verify flows in and out of Ukraine, Russia played endless political games.

Critics of EU membership, led by the Independence Party, will find it easy to stir opposition.

It promised to bind a unified Germany into the EU and pave the way for some sort of political union in Europe.

In fact Greece cannot leave the eurozone voluntarily, without having to leave the EU as well.

Until now he did not understand that the EU funds are from state subsidiaries of the EU members.

France , which holds the presidency of the EU but has been at loggerheads with Mr Mandelson, said the deal was not acceptable .

If it was any of the other, obscure "little Europeans" mentioned for the EU presidency job?

Time, then, to raise a glass of mulled wine to the EU's four freedoms of movement: people, goods, services and capital? Up to a point.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France said the two-day summit was the EU's last chance to save the euro.

The market is completely focused on Europe and is likely to be very jittery as we head into today's EU summit.

The EU has refused to recognize the result of the June 27 presidential run-off poll in which Mr. Mugabe was the sole candidate.

Irish ministers, however, insisted that they were not in discussions with the EU and said they were determined to weather the storm.

In Romania, too, public-sector unions are up in arms over spending cuts that were decreed under a bail-out agreed with the IMF and EU.

Non-EU and international students are prevented, by law, from working more than 20-hours a week and Hardwick sees this as a good guideline.

The carrot of EU membership seems to have worked on countries heading towards accession.

When five EU leaders turned up in Washington, DC, for the G20 summit last November, he saw none of them.

But Britain has never been interested in as much solidarity as many other EU members.

"The EU has put investor-state [provisions] up for negotiation, " he said.

Lithuania is the first EU member with which the United States has completed our respective domestic ratification processes.

EU President Van Rompuy said the purpose of international sanctions against Iran is to bring it back to the negotiating table.

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

"The player interests us, but everything depends on his EU passport, " he said.

"Most of the milk produced throughout the developed world will be following the same standards as those set in the EU, " he said.

A European Union official said: "It's clearly not a success. But no-one will want to say that it's the end of the round. "

The money sought by EU authorities would be used to destroy tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers, and possibly peppers and zucchini.

and that the Labour Party is ready to exploit anti-EU sentiment.

In this multi-polar world, the challenge for the EU and China is to create a strategic vision of the kind of partnership we want.

Japan and the EU are worried that the U. S. has embarked on a deliberate attempt to boost its exports at their expense.

For remaining members, European Union law would have been broken and "you never know how it ends really" , he said.

But Serbia's leaders have been warned that this will rile countries that have recognised Kosovo, including 22 of the 27 EU member states.

Some may be easy to deliver, but several could provoke rows with Britain's EU partners.

"A US-based social network company that has millions of active users in Europe needs to comply with EU rules, " she said.

The relationship between Turkey and the EU is always edgy, a little like Mexico's with the United States.

In much of Europe people look to the EU as a higher authority able to rescue them from dysfunctional local rulers, notes one ambassador.

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

Ahead in London look for Swiss GDP, German retail sales and unemployment change, French consumer spending and EU CPI and unemployment rate.

Mr Monti, an ex-EU commissioner, said he was starting urgent talks on his cabinet, aiming to restore finances.

Norman Lamb, the employment relations minister, said the ruling boosted the case for changing EU rules on holiday rights.

"Relations with the EU are a strategic choice, " he said. "It goes beyond political parties. "

If Mr Blair became president, it would dash any hopes Lord Patten might have of returning to frontline EU politics.

He added that EU lenders already had sufficient monitoring safeguards in place in its bail-out programme.

It is becoming clear that last weekend's EU summit was not the final solution necessary and instead was more can kicking.

He also said that if supplies are disrupted again, the EU was ready to abandon its neutrality in the dispute and assign blame.