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

Under the Treaty of Rome, however, the European Union has behaved as if the Med were a frontier, rather than an organising principle.

Another community decides to come on board. The European Union is ready to move on without waiting for others.

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

During the meeting, representatives of Western Balkan countries once again in his speech expressed the desire to join the European Union.

If only Iceland had been a member of the European Union and eurozone, the argument went, it would have escaped the crisis and humiliation.

European trade with Africa is still more than twice that of China's and European Union foreign direct investment is far greater too.

The finance ministers of the European Union promised that no other financial institution of systemic importance would be allowed to default.

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

In his inaugural speech, the United States' new president did not mention the European Union once.

France has always been supportive on the lift of the European Union's arms embargo on China, he said.

Mr. Frattini said the European Union had contacted the White House several days ago but gotten no formal assurances the reports are untrue.

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.

He said this was an area, along with developing legal mechanisms to try pirates, where the European Union could be particularly effective.

It had taken years of tribulation to agree on the European Union's Lisbon treaty, which had only recently come into effect.

All this makes for a funny sort of German election, and one that has consequences for the wider European Union.

The European Union protested mightily, even though its exports have had the advantage of a cheaper euro for the past six months or more.

Turkey was a NATO ally and was hoping to be admitted to the European Union, a development I had been strongly supporting for years.

European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said the talks were, if anything, "going backwards. " The meeting is to end on Sunday.

Among the biggest achievements was the approval of a European Union plan to negotiate a future legal deal to combat climate change.

But she says politicians generally fail to live up to their promises, and the European Union overall seems unable to agree on anything.

To the United States and European Union, business uses an aircraft is a few the biggest are one of oriented industries with exit.

The European Union's Emissions-Trading Scheme, which started up in 2005, is the only large-scale attempt so far to set a carbon price.

In Switzerland and the European Union banks face restrictions on how much of a bonus they can pay in cash straight away.

The euro makes it easy to compare prices across 16 countries, and the single market allows goods to move freely within the European Union.

The U. S. is no longer the European Union's top trading partner, according to interpretations of at least one data set in Europe.

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

"Henceforth, the European Union will escort Greece's privatisation programme as if we were conducting it ourselves, " he said.

"We have to stop the bush fires turning into a Europe-wide forest fire, " declares Olli Rehn, the European Union's economics commissioner.

Bill Cash, the veteran Eurosceptic MP, said: "The entire European Union project is unravelling as the euro itself unravels. "

BBC correspondent said it could be only a matter of time before Ireland asked to be bailed out by the European Union, as Greece was in May.

He said that the European Union was about to take a "quantum leap" that will "fundamentally change Europe. "

THE British government has no intention of walking out of the European Union.

As we passed beneath the flags of the Italian republic and the European Union, the two carabinieri at the door gave him a formal salute.

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

But without major reforms, Doze says the European Union will not be able to maintain its vision of a kinder, gentler way of life.

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

Individual European countries were conspicuous by their absence, but there was one pot plant there in the name of the European Union.

In the European Union, carrots must be firm but not woody, cucumbers must not be too curved and celery has to be free of any type of cavity.

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

The European Union said the recession in Europe would be worse than it had initially projected.

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

THE reverberations from last month's ruling by Germany's Constitutional Court on the European Union's Lisbon treaty seem to be growing.

Speculation mounted ahead of a summit of European Union leaders that Greece would be offered some sort of financial rescue package.

The United States will have no role in the bailout decision, to be made by the 17 key "Eurozone" countries of the European Union.

Some French politicians suspect the United States of using Britain as a Trojan Horse to undermine the long-term aims of the European Union.

Germany had to ask, humiliatingly, for lenient implementation of the Stability Pact it had insisted upon, and the European Union agreed.

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

One of the defining ideals of the European Union has been its social support system, often referred to as the European welfare state.

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

Security issues are at long last gaining a more prominent place in relations between the European Union and China.

One of the worst things that ever happened to the Illuminati was the European Union, because that idea took away the money changers!

An early policy consensus emerged on the question of intermediary liability equities in the United States and the European Union.

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

The European Union delegation in Kabul came into this and hired me to work inside the Ministry of Public Health, to lobby this approach.

But, he said, the European Union has become more aggressive recently in protecting the rights of people with disabilities.

"The secretary-general of the UN has asked people not to leave tonight, " European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dima told Reuters.

Rebel MPs from his own Conservative party want to force a national referendum on whether to leave the European Union altogether.

He said the European Union, which France currently heads, could not allow such a terribly devastating and unacceptable war.

Major economies -- including the U. S. , China, the European Union and Brazil -- made such pledges in the lead-up to Copenhagen.

It looks now, Stern said, as if the European Union is the only party willing to sign up for a second period.

How much does the European Union really encourage competition?

If the European Union wants to restructure the accounting industry it ought to call Joaquin Almunia, its competition commissioner.

America, the European Union and Switzerland have all introduced new farm subsidies (or restarted programmes that had been allowed to lapse).

The euro is at risk and Europe may be facing its greatest challenge since the founding of the European Union, Merkel said.

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

Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, has not always looked kindly on securitisation deals by European governments.

Exiting the eurozone was "not in the [European Union] treaty, " he said, reflecting ECB alarm about the signal sent to investors.

Many observers, including the European Union, saw the case as a show trial designed to punish Ms Tymoshenko for her political ambitions.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her belief that Turkey should not be a full member of the European Union.

The European Union calls it a reasonable offer, but suggests it could go further.

THE European Union seems to have adopted a new rule: if a plan is not working, stick to it.

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is a decentralised body of the European Union with headquarters in London.

In Europe, that means improved bilateral relationships, a more productive partnership with the European Union, and a revitalized NATO.

She said big advances had been made in desalination technology in the Middle East, the U. S. and the European Union.

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. "

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

Amongst the long rows of VIPs at the news conference were senior officials from the United States, China and the European Union.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said he would veto a new European Union budget if necessary.

Miliband said the response by the European Union and NATO should be hard-headed engagement.

Still, the two have managed to work together in a time of crisis in the European Union.

China's growing trade surplus has been a point of contention with both the United States and the European Union.

And for that reason, it is likely to take quite a long time - if at all - for Turkey to join the European Union.

And they cite a European Union report accusing Israel of trying to shift Jerusalem's demographic balance drastically against the Arabs.

And the environment commissioner for the European Union has indicated that some of that help may be coming.

Something of the same mood is starting to grip the European Union.

In the years from 2004, up to a fifth of those who came hailed from the new member states of the European Union.

Rather like China, the enlargement of the European Union is an opportunity and a challenge for Welsh businesses, not a threat.

Governments of what were once Soviet territories have eagerly signed up to the class enemy's alliances, NATO and the European Union.

On the eve of April's G20 summit in London, diplomats from the European Union and South Korea were poised for a breakthrough.

China responded to his meeting with the Dalai Lama by aborting a summit with European Union leaders due to be hosted by France.

"WE DID our best, " said Carl Bildt, as he handed over the presidency of the European Union to Spain at the start of January.

Greece has sealed a deal with the European Union and IMF that opens the door to a EUR120b financial bailout, Reuters reported Sunday.

The European Union was also pleased to see activities undertaken by WIPO in the area of research, funded by public funds .

Europeans are trembling over the prospect of being asked to admit such a populous state into the European Union.

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

SPEAKING OF COMPLAINING AND MICROSOFT, Microsoft is going to the European Union with an anti-trust complaint against Google.

The group added that the handling of Mr. Vaxevanis's case "cannot be any different in a member state of the European Union. "

THE European Union is not the only institution that prefers faceless technocrats to people with star power.

Its attractiveness in the economic storm has never been higher to European Union members and neighbouring economies.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the European Union was committed to major emissions reductions.

Lorry drivers in the European Union are not allowed to drive for more than four and a half hours without taking a break.

Just a few weeks ago, the European Union launched a new website, Europeana.

European officials say they are working hard to make people understand what the European Union is all about.

The European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have made tough austerity measures a condition of any bailout.

America and the European Union have lodged 176 cases since the WTO came into being, and are also the most frequently complained against.

The mood of the returning crowd can be a good barometer for the state of the European Union. And this year it is dreadful.

So even if US officials decide to go easy on Beijing for a while, their European Union counterparts may not.

The US and European Union still produce half the world's output between them, with little more than a tenth of its population.

A constitution is still not within the grasp of the European Union, but the "European project" provides a justifiable basis for Charlemagne.

"We prefer action at the UN but we are also ready to pursue measures at the European Union. "

Europe's single currency, like the European Union itself, owes much to past German leadership.

By European Union ROHS standard, transiting is the adhesive soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is one of the best adhesive.

In the north, the European Union is the culprit: the EU subsidises every single cow to the tune of five hundred euros a year.

Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy have applied to register the name with the European Union's trademark office OHIM.

The European Union, for instance, now wants such a committee of its own.

It would be unfair not to recognise that the European Union's response to the Greek crisis has been vigorous and fairly well-co-ordinated.

And he has long supported Turkey's entry into the European Union, against the wishes of voters as well as most of his party.

Obama said the European Union has taken some important steps toward a comprehensive solution.

However, the European Union continues to lag behind the United States and Japan in terms of market share in East Asia.

"The situation is particularly acute for insurance companies operating in the European Union, " said the paper.

The European Union began to enforce a ban five years ago. Several EU members had already stopped the practice before that.

Papandreou surprised financial markets this week when he called for a public vote on a deal the European Union had reached days earlier.

I am ready to retire as a eurosceptic. The European Union is in trouble.

VOTERS have once again shot an arrow into the heart of a European Union treaty.

The European Union's toughest advocate of austerity gave a positive message, even if it was typically cautious.

The European Union and the US were set on a collision course on Thursday night over the next stage of liberalising transatlantic aviation.

European Union quotas mean fishermen are only allowed to land a certain amount of each species.

The European Union is to stop importing Iranian oil in July, to put pressure on Tehran to stop enriching uranium.

for a new title as the showcase for a new partnership agreement between the European Union, North African and Middle Eastern countries.

Euro-zone leaders are likely to hold a special summit Friday to discuss ways to help Greece, a European Union diplomat said.

With no takers and no permission from the European Union to pump in further aid, the government would have to let the airline go bust.

He also called on the European Union to support genetically modified crops and for the United States to kill domestic subsidies for biofuel.

Inventors apply to the European Patent Office, with which all 27 members of the European Union and nine other European countries co-operate.

We are members of NATO, in the majority. We are members of the European Union, with which the United States has very good relations.

Objective To understand new safety and hygiene regulations of fishery products in European Union and suggest our countermeasures.

Europe will remember this year for the "Lisbon Treaty" , its entry into force ushering the European Union into a new phase of development.

European Union leaders and senior finance officials now find themselves confronted by an array of unappealing challenges.

China has made it clear, though, that its dealings with Britain are a part of its broader relations with the European Union.

In the European Union case, the Commission imposed similar restrictions as well as a fine of 497. 2 million Euros.

Politicians were at it again this week, after Greece had asked for loans from the European Union and the IMF (see article).

This conference is part of a World Bank technical assistance project funded partially by the European Union, which we greatly appreciate.

Whether apply to be the member of European Union is up to Iceland people and the country leader.

Hungary was the first European Union member state to receive international financing to avoid bankruptcy during the global credit crunch.

The Mideast Quartet, made up of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States, is making a push to restart the talks.

But even in the warm, nurturing, egalitarian European Union, female happiness has fallen relative to men's across the last three decades.

None of this detracts from Turkey's determination to join the European Union. Rather, it enhances its appeal as a member, says Mr Davutoglu.

Now China is one of the Big Three, alongside the U. S. and European Union.

The paper introduces the general situations of the labor standards of the European Union and the principles of the labor legislation.

It is argued that the European Union will not be fully democratic and accountable by the enactment of a Constitution.

It is reported that China's economy is now to the United States, larger than that of Japan or any single member of the European Union.

The Delegation stressed that the new legislation had been harmonized with the TRIPS Agreement and the legislation of the European Union.

European Union official Robert Cooper says Iran has not responded "positively" to the U. N. -brokered enrichment plan.

Schroeder said in an interview with Der Spiegel that European Union leaders were wrong to expect the euro to drive the bloc on its own.

But India hasbeen slow in trying to gain a toehold, while Americaand the European Union have recently extended sanctions on Myanmar.

The company has passed ISO9001 quality system certification, the main product by the European Union CE, EMC certification.

That's not to say though that the European Union is welcoming these ten candidate countries with open arms and wide smiles.

She warned that the German parliament could block Liechtenstein's entry in November into the European Union's border-free Schengen zone.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he is angry that Turkey has not been allowed to join the European Union.

The law prohibits the transfer of personal data to non- European Union nations that do not meet its guidelines for privacy protection .

If it adds a deal with the European Union, that would pose a serious risk to Japanese manufacturers.

Americans should welcome the rise of a strong, confident European Union as we continue to support a strong NATO.

In response, Italy's interior minister, Roberto Maroni, asked, "I wonder if it makes sense to stay in the European Union? "

It would include the leaders of the seventeen euro countries and would be led by the European Union president.

Only the Czech Republic did; it now holds the European-Union presidency, but on this matter it was not acting for the EU.

The expanded European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, twice as big as the population of the United States.

To put matters in perspective, the Greek economy is less than 2 percent of the overall economy of the European Union.

The European Union's anti-piracy force says pirates attacked but failed to hijack a French-flagged ship off the coast of Tanzania Tuesday.

But, as the European Union has long acknowledged, "state aid" to national industrial champions is a form of protectionism.

By refusing to agree to an emergency change to the European Union treaty, the UK has taken a very public step away from its neighbors.

IS SWITZERLAND preparing to embrace the world more closely, to the point of contemplating joining the European Union?

China now ranks third on GERD, just behind the US and Japan and ahead of any individual European Union state.

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

To a degree, Latvia's overheated economy was a product of its accession to the European Union.

The European Union is at the forefront of a global push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Similarly, as a result of Kosovo, the Balkans changed. Countries there can think of a future in the European Union.

IT IS sometimes said that the European Union is an economic giant but a political pygmy, with no foreign policy to speak of.

Olli Rehn, the European Union's commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, was more blunt.

Intel will stipulate according to relevant program the problem that cares to European Union committee undertakes the front rejoins.

The company aims eventually to distribute its products throughout the European Union.

It said European Union-wide league tables published by the European Commission "would be a good place to start" .

also has no decision center, nor coordinating institutions comparable to NATO or the European Union.

Up to 300 people a day try to cross the River Evros that divides Greece and Turkey, to reach the European Union.

A FEW hours' drive east of the European Union takes you decades back: to political prisoners, a planned economy and black markets.

Together they developed a voluntary pact known as the Vienna Initiative, to keep money flowing in the European Union's eastern states.

This was enough to persuade the European Union to open membership talks with Turkey in 2005.

Legally, it would require the country to leave the European Union.

But, Out of the expectation of the European Union and other GPA members, this list does not include China's state-owned enterprises.

A few hundred meters back is the Georgian checkpoint and on this occasion a European Union monitoring patrol has just stopped by.

As MG is not registered as a veterinary drug, the administration of this antibiotic is not allowed in the European Union either.

The bilateral trade relations between China and the United States, the European Union, Russia and Japan have been constantly strengthened.

European Union leaders have held no fewer than 15 summits since the Greek crisis blew up in 2010.

Talks between the United States and the European Union on sharing confidential airline passenger information have broken down.

France is one of only two European Union nations that do not have diplomatic relations with North Korea.

This sounds unmistakably like the charter for the European Economic Community (EEC), the forerunner of the present European Union.

"In this process the European Union has figured most prominently, " he said.

The other legislation is represented by anti-trust law of European Union and preclusion of behavior illegality is used for standard.

Meanwhile, the European Union will be fine-tuning the rules for the next phase of its carbon-trading scheme.

His true score of 93%, Mr Lukashenka explained, would not have been acceptable to the European Union, so a few points were lopped off.

Will British employers still be able to recruit as many non-European Union staff as they need in future?

European Union foreign ministers'meeting declared birds flu posed a global health threat if it shifted from birds to humans.

Sweden represents the European Union, as it holds the six-month rotating presidency of the 27-country bloc until the end of the year.

China has a big trade surplus with the United States and the European Union but a large deficit with its Asian neighbors.

Both the United States and European Union have called on Russian authorities to hunt down and prosecute the killers.

The United States government and the European Union believed Microsoft had too much power and too largest portion of the software market.

The only way to reverse this seemingly inexorable fate is to recreate the European Union as a fantastic object worth striving for.

After a lot of talk, Ireland's bail-out package, led by the European Union, did not impose losses on creditors.

Cyprus is part of the European Union, the EU, that group is responsible for some of its members' economic policies.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of such money have been flooding into Romania and Bulgaria as they prepare to join the European Union.

Most other European Union countries were keen on having themselves an "anchor of stability" on which to base economic growth.

Those members of the European Union who chose not to join the single currency may well do so in the next few years.

The Kremlin will also be worried that the European Union and America have sided with Britain in its dispute with Russia.

He also downplayed the notion, advanced by the EU, that the United States and European Union would send a joint mediation team to Kenya.

The United States has already adopted a law to this end and the European Union will publish its own draft law on Wednesday.

And the consequences would be scarily unpredictable: Europe's single market, and even the European Union itself, might be at risk.

In the 1990s European Union pressure forced the town of Usti nad Labem to pull down a wall that it had built around a Roma ghetto.

He said it resigned because he has achieved, "Let Montenegro from the European Union and NATO membership in the more recent" task.

The main difficulty within the European Union is harmonising what individual countries have to do.

Van Rompuy also warned investors not to expect any hard decisions to be made at the European Union summit meeting next week.

At the World Health Assembly in May, the European Union recently encouraged governments to do their part to help eradicate polio.

Such a system rendered in European Union but not anywhere else, has deeply environmental, economical, technical and legal roots.

None of this has stopped the European Union from investing in P2P as a route to the remaking of broadcasting.

For all its upheavals, there used to be something reassuringly ineluctable about the European Union.

Donors including the U. K. and the European Union have so far pledged almost $500 million in additional help.

The European Union today unveiled draft legislation to toughen up the policing of financial institutions and avoid another banking meltdown.

All other necessary clearances have been obtained, including approvals from the U. S. , Japan and the European Union.

ALSO: The European Union's health commissioner is urging Europeans to avoid non-essential travel to the U. S. and Mexico. Report.

THE prospects of Cyprus's reunification and of Turkey joining the European Union both took a blow this week.

Germany and the European Union have committed nearly $22 billion to transform the region into a center of education, technology and tourism.

The conviction and jail sentence comes just as Ukraine hopes to sign a free trade agreement with the European Union.

Nestle SA now ranks as the world's biggest food company, helping the Swiss economy grow at twice the rate of the European Union.

While "far reaching" changes to European Union treaties "should not be discarded" , he argued that "faster processes are also conceivable" .

In terms of outgoing in-vestment, the European Union will remain the largest direct investor in foreign markets, the report predicts.

The system yesterday received the European Union's CE mark, certifying that it meets consumer and health requirements.

A STRONG reformist president and government have boosted Romania's chances of joining the European Union next January.

The United States, France, Britain, the European Union, and Germany have sought tougher sanctions against Iran to force it to comply.

IN LISBON at the end of this week, the leaders of the European Union will sit down with the leaders of the African Union.

Mr Berlusconi vowed that, before his eventual departure, he would pass the package of reforms recommended by the European Union.

The European Union has the makings of an open society that could be a model for the rest of the world.

Portugal has been seen as one of the European Union members most vulnerable to an attack by the markets after Greece .

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

Actually, it has been proposed that European Union should find out a unified language.

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Sure. Members include the top four trading powers. They are the European Union, The United States, Japan and Canada.

European Union observers of the election concluded it was held in a "general atmosphere of fear and intimidation" .

In all European Union countries, youth unemployment rates are higher than mainstream joblessness, often by a factor of two to one.

The formation of these ancient mountains was the first act of European Union.

Representatives from the five permanent members of the U. N. Security Council plus Germany and the European Union met for about three hours.

The world's primary beef producers and consumers are the U. S. , the European Union, Brazil, China, Argentina, and Australia.

At the meeting of European Union finance ministers this week, we agreed to work together to rebuild confidence in the banking system.