EU's

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Second, this budgetary boost needs to be accompanied by an agreement to strengthen the EU's fiscal framework.

The concept of "Swiss model" is one of the designs about the EU's future political structure.

Ireland was one of the EU's poorest countries a generation ago.

Considered from the point of the traditional parliamentary democracy, the import of EU's democracy is insufficient.

It said the EU's big bail-out fund would be temporary, but it is being made permanent.

The EU's anti-piracy force said the skipper was rescued after fleeing captivity upon landing at the Somali coast.

At the heart of the debate are proposals made last week by the European commission, the EU's executive arm.

The EU's contribution is for one year only, and I see little chance that the EU will be able to increase it either now or next year.

Moreover, at least to judge by intentions, the EU's drive to open up markets is accelerating.

Germany and France showed that they decide the EU's foreign policy, and that easterners do not count, says one minister in the region.

Some Europeans would like to put up carefully designed fences around the EU's still vast and wealthy market.

Olli Rehn, the EU's top economic official, emphasised the need for the austerity package to be approved by the end of the month.

The EU's military capability is meagre; its ability to stand up to Russian divide-and-rule tactics in energy security is feeble.

Yet overfishing did not begin with the EU's common policy, and even Icelanders would overexploit their waters if not restrained.

China gives top priority to China-EU relations and hopes to see EU's more important role in European and international affairs.

It was the first time the European Competitiveness Index, published every two years, has included the EU's 10 new member states.

The first four years of Cypriot membership amount to a failure for the EU's enlargement policy.

Trade within the EU has grown no faster than the EU's trade with the rest of the world over the last two decades.

Germany and France have unveiled radical and divisive new proposals to put the euro on a new footing and settle the EU's worst ever crisis.

Mr Rehn admits that the EU's "integration capacity" (the newly approved jargon to replace "absorption capacity" ) must be considered.

He said that Luxembourg will continue adhering to the one-China policy and making efforts towards EU's lift of arms embargo on China.

Olli Rehn, the EU's top economic official, said it was a "responsible step for securing the financial stability of the eurozone" .

Olli Rehn, the EU's top economic official, said it was a "responsible step for securing the financial stability of the euro zone" .

She was instrumental in securing the passage of the Lisbon treaty, which strengthens the EU's role in justice, migration and foreign policy.

Britain, he says, is one of the few countries whose voters assume domestic administration is superior to the EU's.

Like the band on the Titanic that played on to the end, the EU's bureaucracy keeps producing studies, policies and regulations.

At a time when everybody worries about the EU's lack of popular support, the two groups are looking for legitimacy in different places.

The schemes looked like a response to a competitive threat from AMD. Yet the EU's trustbusters cannot feel too sure of themselves.

"We will not accept discrimination from anybody, even from the EU's most powerful states, " he said.

The long-cherished freedom of the EU's citizens to live and work anywhere in the union is sometimes contested too.

Just over a year ago the EU's own Court of Auditors drew attention to some of the reasons the policy is so disastrous.

For the EU's critics, its own summit in September was a good example of its failings.

says that many of the hundreds of drinks Diageo sells owe their place in the world to the EU's ability to negotiate trade deals.

After that, the EU's Council of Ministers as well as the European Parliament will take a crack at modifying them.

Completing the north-south gas grid is a priority for Hungary as it takes over the EU's six-month rotating presidency in January.

However, selling Galileo's services to the military to recoup the costs would have to be approved by the EU's 25 member states.

The footwear case emerged as a closely-watched test of the EU's commitment to free trade in the middle of an economic recession.

For all the EU's current difficulties, it provided both a powerful political motivator and a detailed reform blueprint.

Commenting on the EU's proposed roadmap, U. S. deputy climate change envoy Jonathan Pershing said it would have to bind all parties equally.

Now, however, Britain is wealthier, and a smaller share of the EU's budget goes on the common agricultural policy (CAP).

A year ago Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia gained visa-free access to the EU's 25-country Schengen area.

The final decision rests with the EU's 27 heads of state and government and is expected to be made at a special summit this month.

"The directive including aviation activities in the EU's emissions trading scheme is valid, " the court said in a statement.

Working closely with Russia in energy cooperation is identified as one of the core content of EU's energy strategy in the new period.

However, the EU's emission trading system is also gone through a process of development and its implementation is phased in progress.

The summit concluded with common affirmation that the EU's single market was part of the solution to the economic crisis sweeping Europe.

The EU's top diplomat is to visit East Africa at the start of a tour aimed at curbing piracy off Somalia's coast.

The CDC would bring in private sector companies, but would be backed by the European Investment Bank, the EU's funding arm.

How such circles are squared will be up to the European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court.

Proposals by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, to tackle the issue have been pushed back to the autumn.

At the EU's insistence, the peripherals' priority is to slash their budget deficits regardless of the consequences on growth.

The European Commission, the EU's policy-proposing executive, has produced not a plan B but a plan D (for democracy).

Like the EU's current member states, sometimes their interests will coincide, sometimes they will differ.

In the poker game of the EU's daily life, Britain is one of three big players, along with Germany and France.

Also, he has led the institution into an excessively intimate involvement with the EU's rescue of its own troubled members.

In an interview with Defense News, Weis cited the EU's border agency, Frontex, as a potential user of UAVs.

Yet still the EU's Common Agricultural Policy and the United States' Farm Bill remain sacrosanct in the eyes of the rich world.

And there will be a row, complete with legal battles, over the EU's plan to levy a carbon tax on flights to or from Europe.

Greece's budget deficit for 2009 is expected to come in at close to 13% of its gross domestic product, far above the EU's ceiling of 3%.

But it seems that the plan is for the European Banking Authority (EBA), the EU's banking regulator, to rerun its July stress tests.

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

The EU's antitrust watchdog last month opened an extended investigation, meaning it has until early April to complete its review.

But Mr Fogh Rasmussen is thought to be more interested in becoming the EU's first permanent president, if that position ever materialises.

Viviane Reding, the EU's commissioner for information society and media, said she was pleased that Washington chose to make the shift.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's nominal foreign-policy chief, seems distracted, to put it mildly.

It championed both the single currency and the EU's eastward enlargement and now sends most of its exports to countries that are in the EU.

Back in that long-lost golden age, the EU's leaders were in heroic mood.

Well, according to the EU's 2010 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, the total number of terrorist incidents in Europe declined in 2009.

Deep-seated reasons of EU's "non-market economy" are the influence and stalemate for supremacy between countries or country groups.

All this has led critics to complain about the EU's "democratic deficit" .

All this has led critics to complain about the EU's "democratic deficit" .

Europe has been China's largest trading partner for six consecutive years, while China has risen to be the EU's second-largest.

EU's economic and military security's implementation in north Africa is a case study of EU's security strategy.

The president may well turn into the EU's public face in dealing with, among others, his American counterpart.

That's in part because the attitudes of the EU's 27 member states to Russia have been all over the place.

Asylum and immigration have fallen within the EU's competence since the Amsterdam treaty in 1997.

The shutdown should force a rethink of the EU's overall energy policy as well.

Strive for progress, innovation, the EU's sincerity and brother of furniture at home and abroad friends work together to develop altogether.

Previously a little-known British politician and briefly the EU's trade commissioner, she has not had an easy time in the spotlight.

The row has cast a cloud over the start of Hungary's six months at the helm of the EU's rotating presidency.

The bid from the Polish-led group is one of several attempts to dilute the EU's climate policy.

Demography is on France's side: its population is growing, whereas Germany has one of the EU's lowest fertility rates.

It has a two-thirds share of the European Union's total foreign-exchange and derivatives trading and 42% of the EU's share trading.

The agreement needs to be approved by South Korea's National Assembly and the heads of the EU's 27-member states before taking effect.

Hillary Clinton, the American secretary of state, is the biggest believer in the EU's new but much-criticised diplomatic service.

So far, the EU's ambitious plans for emissions cuts have underwhelmed in execution.

The EU's presence in Afghanistan has been a sorry mess.

The EU's institutions were designed for six, not today's 27, and parts of the constitution would certainly improve them.

True financial independence is a distant dream: in practice, the budget (which must balance each year) is financed by the EU's members.

She points to the EU's fondness for compromise and listening, and its rejection of horrid things like conflict.

Supergrid will maximize the EU's capability of drawing on its own and non-Russian power sources.

Cogels said soy oil had the potential to make up to 25% of EU's biodiesel production.

But Germany, Austria and Malta later changed their positions amid heavy lobbying by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.

Yet three-quarters of the EU's budget comes in the form of direct contributions from governments, based on national income.

Executives at Neste, a big Finnish refiner, doubt Europe's output of biofuels can expand fast enough to meet the EU's target.

It leads to a robust and transparent debate between the EU's 27 members that ultimately leads to a common approach.

The EU's response is a trio of supranational committees that will have the power to step in when domestic regulators disagree.

He also lobbied for bigger powers for the EU's monetary affairs commissioner, which would give him more influence over national budgets.

He added that Germany supports the EU's recognition of China as a market economy and the lifting of the arms sales ban on China.

Peter Mandelson, the EU's trade commissioner, told the FT that the US and EU were closer to an agreement than is commonly thought.

Britain has a better record than most of applying the EU's rules, whereas many others sign up for commitments that they then gaily flout.

It will keep nuclear-power stations open longer, but the two countries may not agree on a lot else over the EU's energy policy.

For them, the scheme was just something else to haggle over. For instrumentalists , it carried the burden of the EU's very future.

It has fallen to Poland, a non-euro country, to speak truth to the EU's bigger members.

Not stellar, but clearly a case where the EU's break-up with America carried tangible benefits for the planet.

The others balked, France most vocally, accusing Cameron of putting Britain's perceived interests ahead of resolving the EU's worst crisis.

Similar considerations should govern the EU's approach to other would-be members.

For a decade, Ireland was the EU's superstar.

However, property owners can roam freely within Germany, Greece and 23 other countries that make up the EU's Schengen area.

They will also need the combined resources of the EU's Research Framework Programme, national and regional research programmes and industry.

But still ASEAN refused to allow any mention in the closing ASEM chairman's statement even of the EU's aspiration to join.

Olli Rehn, the EU's monetary affairs commissioner, will today put forward similar ideas for closer fiscal and economic policy co-ordination.

China works for world peace, which should not be connected with the lift of EU's arms embargo.

The program will increase costs for the chosen European importers, who have to pay the EU's 27 member countries for the licenses.

Russia is one of the EU's largest markets for vegetables and other produce.

Surrendering their veto over patents would be a substantial loss of sovereignty for the EU's members.

Last month the Netherlands vetoed (with Finland) the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU's Schengen passport-free travel zone.

and an American-made dialysis machine needs the EU's okay before is hits the market in Europe.

The EU's biggest fear is that markets will cease financing Italy, causing a meltdown that Europe would be powerless to stop.

The United Kingdom's proposal mirrored the EU's genuine concern regarding WIPO's Development Dimension.

Until two years ago the EU's competition authorities had been pacified by Visa's pledge to bring average interchange fees down to 0. 7%.

The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, says such policies risk breaching World Trade Organization guidelines.

Google completed its takeover of DoubleClick, first announced last April, after the EU's competition commissioner gave her approval.

The challenge now is for the presidency and the commission to give fresh political impetus to the EU's stalled reform drive.

But the combination of Mr Blair and Mr Barroso in the EU's top two positions would be extraordinary.

Divisions among Europe's leaders, and their inability to stabilise the euro, have damaged the EU's reputation on other continents.

So one of the EU's complainants was eighth on the first page of the Google results.

EU's Lisbon reform treaty Germany will be expected to take a central role in deciding what to do if Ireland rejects the treaty on Friday.

Norwegian scholar, Toje gives a well-judged assessment of the EU's strengths and weaknesses in foreign policy.

An overambitious presidency, even one that wears the halo of the EU's ring of gold stars, can stir more enmity than praise.

The ambassador decried the EU's many antidumping tariffs, designed to punish goods sold below cost, on Chinese imports as ludicrous.

The trick of managing both to save jobs and the planet will mostly be left to the EU's Emissions-Trading Scheme (ETS).

Along with this comes a second task: to preserve the single market, by far the EU's greatest achievement of recent years.

And recent developments could make those on the outside begin to question whether all of the EU's cherished principles still hold.

Markets have cheered the news of the the EU's rescue package for Greek sovereign debt crisis.

Singapore is the EU's 15th largest trading partner and its largest among the 10 Asean member states.

But the truth is that the EU's eastward enlargement brought globalisation inside the borders of the single market.

The EU's 1995 Data Protection Directive was written at a time before the internet was widely understood.

The Turkish goal of visa-free access for almost all its neighbours could easily contradict the EU's own plans for tighter border controls.

The EU's first free-trade pact in Asia is expected to send South Korean exports of cars and consumer electronics to Europe soaring.

"It is a responsible move by the Portuguese government, " Olli Rehn, the EU's top economic official, told the Financial Times.

China supports the EU's integration process and hopes the EU will play a positive and constructive role in international affairs.

But Climate Strategies argue that giving some industries a "free ride" in the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme will harm the wider economy.

In 2005 Dutch voters confounded the elite by voting against the EU's constitutional treaty in a referendum.

The move follows the EU's announcement Tuesday that it will commence free-trade negotiations with Vietnam.

Ministers will also push for reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, which inflates food prices.

Why, they say, should they give up their right to UN membership to spare the EU's blushes?

Q: Given the EU's sanction against Syria's oil export, Syria yesterday expressed its willingness to resell the oil to Russia and China.

Vision provided the EU's original impulse with the historic reconciliation between France and Germany.

The EU's trade strategy will be the guiding policy statement for Karel De Gucht, the Belgian who took over as trade commissioner this year.

Now they will abstain, which counts as a vote in favor of the commission's plan under the EU's arcane procedures for setting trade tariffs.

Rules of engagement to guide the EU's naval task force when Operation Atalanta enters pirate-infested waters are being made final.

The EU's main motivation for the promotion of regional integration is predicated on trade and economic gains.

That makes Russia the EU's third-largest source of foreign imports, behind only China and the United States.

Both issues, Lisbon and global warming, are at the top of the EU's agenda.

In addition, the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, was instructed to come up with specific proposals for the new mechanism.

Security of supply remains at the top of the EU's energy-policy agenda.

The constitution was supposed to renovate the EU's creaking legislative machinery as well as bringing Brussels closer to the people.

His statement came as the EU's enlargement commissioner, Stefan Fule, was in Ankara.

Ireland's leaders first claimed not to need the help, but in late November accepted the EU's terms.

The United States is still the EU's largest source of spam, accounting for 21. 6% of total EU spam.

On the other side, many Chinese SMEs registered leapfrog growth by exploring the EU's vast market since China joined the WTO.

Despite bold promises, the EU's drive to become the world's most competitive knowledge economy by 2010 has failed to gain any real momentum.

Slovenia assumes the presidency of the European Union, and Cyprus and Malta both join the EU's euro zone.

However, the truth is that thanks to restrictive rules, tariff preferences, particularly the EU's, are less generous than they look.

The EU's long-term goal: Energy security through reliance on wind, solar, biogas and mixed-source natural gas supplies.

At a foreign ministers' meeting on April 27th, Germany sounded the alarm about instability in Ukraine, on the EU's eastern border.

This episode illustrates both the potential and the constraints of the EU's nascent foreign policy.

At a summit on February 11th, the EU's national leaders pledged to take "determined and co-ordinated action" to preserve the euro.

How about the argument that the EU needs to appoint a well known global figure to increase the EU's diplomatic pulling power?

The single market and the EU's competition and state-aid rules are under attack as national governments look for ways to protect jobs.

Some of the EU's regular summits with China are very dull.

A new dispute has flared up over the EU's plans to tax carbon emissions on flights to and from Europe.

Many countries, chief among them Germany, wanted to craft the new pact as a change to the EU's foundational treaties.

The EU attaches great importance to developing relations with China and China will respond to EU's initiatives.

Study on the Impact and Countermeasures of Guangdong Export by the EU's "Two-green Directives"

Germany and the EU's wealthy northern members are furious at Greece and reluctant to pay for its profligacy.

With the deepening of the EU's institutional reform, China-EU relations will enter a new stage.

The danger of such rhetoric is clear: doubt the EU's sincerity and the circle turns from virtuous to vicious.

Yet it is hardly tenable to suggest that the EU's treaties need no changes at all.

So it combined evidence of both hypocrisy over human rights with the EU's habitual navel-gazing.

LinkedIn participates in EU's International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.

France invited 21 fellow European Union countries to a debate on the EU's common agricultural policy.

The idea is to write fiscal discipline into national constitutions and harness the EU's institutions to punish profligacy and excess.

In response to the EU's carbon tax scheme, China issued a blunt no, banning its airlines from participating.

The EU's strategy reduces the choice of the Greeks to defaulting either next month, or next year.

The Treaty of Lisbon crystallizes the EU's core belief that nation states are every bit as defunct as Stone Age tribes.

Under the new Lisbon treaty, the EU's 27 members will be represented by a single figure, serving for two-and-a-half years.

The troubles in Greece, which represents just 2% of the EU's economy, have weighed heavily on the common currency.

Germany, the EU's biggest country, has both the heft and the money to loosen budgetary policy.

But China still held the top spot as the region's import source, making up 17. 4 per cent of the EU's total imports.

Amid indecision, the EU's attempts to support its lenders may be overtaken by events.

It does not matter if the EU's money comes from the taxpayer's left or right pocket.

The European Council, which includes all 27 members, is now the EU's most powerful body.

First is the EU's notorious common fisheries policy, which would give other EU members access to Iceland's fish.

The Americans, the Chinese and many others question the EU's right to tax flights that start in San Francisco or Shanghai.

The emissions reductions target is a source of disagreement among the EU's 27 member states.

Germany, the EU's chief paymaster, said it was not exerting pressure on Ireland to accept aid.

But the EU's proposed directive does not leave the field entirely unfenced.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign-policy chief, issues almost daily scoldings to nasty regimes.

Nor do many welcome a bigger divide between the 17 countries of the euro zone and the EU's remaining ten.

But its other borders (with Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia) will then be the EU's external boundary.

Mandatory emissions targets would be required under the EU's proposal.

A growing but still small contingent of Greeks wants to defy the EU's treaties and quit the euro altogether.

The Democratic Party put out an emergency appeal for voters to back Mr Lee, saying Ms Eu's list had enough support .

And precisely because Diageo is a global company, the EU's weight in trade negotiations is crucial.

This will generate resentments that will endanger the EU's political cohesion.

Secondly, expounding the birth and evolvement of the rule of NME in the EU's antidumping.

Look back to the founding of the European Economic Community, the EU's forerunner, in 1957.

And shipping could, and should, be included in all carbon-trading schemes, notably the EU's.

A less controversial idea is to enforce fines already permitted under the EU's "stability and growth pact" .

The risk is that the EU's intervention blows this vital initiative out of the water.

They rejected the request and suggested instead tapping the EU's existing research budget.

Second, an enterprising foreign policy of the sort that Mr Davutoglu is pursuing can jar with the EU's own policy.

This would make the country more familiar with the give-and-take of finding a common position and bolster the EU's security.

Some of this reveals the EU's waning influence.

The EU's strategy to increase renewable sources and energy efficiency will also begin to bear fruit.

The EU's choices for its top jobs have raised suspicions that Europe is condemned to punch below its weight.

The committee says the EU's win is a message to the whole world about finding ways to solve conflicts.

Neither China's reform and opening-up nor the EU's integration has any precedent to follow.

It could dash, disastrously, the EU's already flagging enthusiasm for expansion.

Since both the civil power and military power belong to the traditional model of state power, they could not accord with EU's own identity.

Today, Europeans remain far less mobile than Americans, despite the EU's free market in labour.

It is a global power whose decisions are central to virtually all the EU's pressing concerns.

The EU's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said this week she has invited Iran's top nuclear negotiator for new talks on the dispute.

Yet that was the task entrusted to Lady Ashton when she was made the EU's "foreign minister" under the 2009 Lisbon treaty.

The move follows the EU's decision in December to extend anti-dumping duties against Chinese and Vietnamese footwear for 15 months.

The EU's sympathy lay largely with Ukraine following the 2004 "Orange Revolution" which brought pro-Western leaders to power.

For some veterans, this could be "the biggest moment in the EU's history" .

The European Commission, the EU's civil service, is a fervent advocate of austerity.