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18-03-2005 • News & Events
Your Excellencies, Honourable Members, Ladies and Gentlemen
It is a great honour for me to have the opportunity to address the session of the Bulgarian National Assembly on the
occasion of my first visit as the Commissioner responsible for Enlargement.
We are now at a crucial moment of this historic process which started almost six years ago, on the occasion of the
Helsinki...
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17-03-2005 • News & Events
The European Commission has sent warning letters to ten member states that have failed to implement outstanding EU gas
and electricity sector legislation.
The laws, which aims to open up the two energy markets, were adopted at EU level two years ago, but a number of member
states have been slow to implement them.
“The creation of an efficient energy market is one of the...
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Published at 11-03-2005 from Centre for the Study of Public Policy
This paper is part of a project on Diverging Paths in Post-Communist Countries, supported by a grant from the British
Economic & Social Research Council (RES-000-23-0193) and, for Baltic surveys, a grant from the Swedish Tercentenary
Fund to Professor Sten Berglund of Orebro University. Dr.
Neil Munro contributed valuable assistance in processing the data. Surveys from 1991... |
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25-02-2005 • News & Events
A total of 20 projects for financing of priority activities of European integration from the budget of the Council of
Ministers were approved, announced the Bulgarian Council of Ministers. The 20 projects were approved at a meeting of
the Council for Coordination and monitoring on 9 February....
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Published at 21-02-2005 from Guardian
The European constitution cleared its first major hurdle last night when Spanish voters overwhelmingly endorsed the
historic document in the first of 10 referendums that will be held across Europe over the next 18 months.
With all the votes counted, 77% of voters approved the constitution, which is meant to simplify the work of the EU.
Only 17% of Spaniards voted no and 6% of... |
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11-02-2005 • News & Events
Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu stated that he had given his political accord regarding the EU Accession
Agreement that is to be signed on April 25ht in Luxemburg, the Romanian AZI informs. Romanian Prime Minister explained
that the country fits into the schedule set, and the date January 1st 2007 is an absolutely realistic term for
Romania’s integration to the EU.
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07-02-2005 • News & Events
WOMEN IN
EUROPE GET HIGHER EDUCATION - BUT LOWER...
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12-01-2005 • News & Events
The European Parliament will spend €340,000 on a pro-EU constitution information campaign over the next two years.
MEPs are expected to give overwhelming support to the EU constitution in a vote on Wednesday.
And the bill for post-vote celebrations at the Strasbourg session will total €191,000 in one week alone.
Parliamentarians have told EUpolitix that decorations on...
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12-01-2005 • News & Events
Controversial EU proposals to allow legal immigration into Europe are set to cause contention in national capitals.
Tuesday's proposal from the European Commission aims for a common EU approach towards “useful” immigrants –
those who fill certain gaps in expertise and labour shortages.
The paper suggesting “an EU approach to managing economic migration” plans to launch a...
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Published at 12-01-2005 from PASOS
PASOS network calls on EU to convene EU-Ukraine summit to agree technical and financial assistance to strengthen
transparency and rule of law in Ukraine, and to reject cold-war ‘spheres of influence’ in agreeing future relations
with Kyiv
“An open door to Ukraine’s membership would send an important signal to Ukrainians that their bravery in fighting
for fair elections has... |
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30-12-2004 • News & Events
Brussels The EU has summoned for taking place of international donor conference for rebuilding of the affected from the
tidal waves countries, announced Deutschland Radio. At the same time the European Commission considers granting of more
means for the region. The EU has given EUR 1 million emergency aid to the South and Southeast Asia.
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16-12-2004 • News & Events
New Romanian President to push for changes in accession treaty(http://euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=18010)
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15-12-2004 • News & Events
CHIRAC TO MAKE TURKEY'S CASE ON FRENCH TV(http://euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=17998)
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03-12-2004 • News & Events
Washington’s stance on Iran and climate change continues to divide the EU and US, Europe’s new trade chief Peter
Mandelson has told a Brussels audience.
The UK commissioner, known for both his Alanticist and pro-EU credentials, has identified key differences between
Europe and the US over efforts to halt Tehran’s nuclear programme and Kyoto.
“In Iran, while I hope we share...
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24-11-2004 • News & Events
Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has once again criticised harshly EU fiscal rules which underpin the euro
as bad for business and economic growth.
Describing tax cuts as fundamental to his political philosophy, he warned that all member states risk falling into
“strategic decline” unless they reduce state economic controls and boost competitiveness.
The...
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24-11-2004 • News & Events
The five largest British business organisations gather on Tuesday in Brussels to call for less EU red tape.
The British Chambers of Commerce will deliver a survey, saying that jobs will be lost and costs increased because of
European laws proposing new rights for temporary workers.
Victoria Carson, FPB representative, Brussels said "Listening to member concerns led FPB to...
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22-11-2004 • News & Events
FRANCE AND GERMANY TO ESCAPE EURO RULE PUNISHMENT...
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Published at 15-11-2004 from The Daily Press
Dr. Alex Vidal-Quadras, vice president of the Euro-pean Parliament, presented a discussion about why the European
economy is under-going serious difficulties of growth.
The presentation was given Nov. 1 at the Besse-Forward Global Resource Center, and was co-hosted by Western New Mexico
University and the Silver City-Grant County Eco-nomic Development Corp. Following is the... |
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12-11-2004 • News & Events
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PREPARES FOR BULGARIA AND ROMANIA(http://euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=17741)
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11-11-2004 • News & Events
Italy’s new man for the EU’s justice job Franco Frattini and Latvia’s new candidate for Europe’s energy
portfolio Andris Piebalgs are first in the hot-seats on Monday.
The pair face MEPs in three-hour evening hearings as new faces in José Manuel Barroso’s reshuffle of his incoming,
but delayed, European Commission.
While the European Parliament is expected to back a...
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10-11-2004 • News & Events
UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw appear to disagree over when to introduce a bill
implementing the EU Constitution in parliament, reports The Independent's Andrew Grice.
Jack Straw has argued that the bill should be introduced in late November so that it can become law before the next
general election in May. However, Tony Blair has disagreed,...
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08-11-2004 • News & Events
The major political groups in the European Parliament have signalled that they can accept the Barroso Commission's new
line-up.
The hearings of the three commissioners in question are scheduled to take place on 15-16 November. This will be
followed by a debate on 17 November and a vote on 18 november.
Martin Schultz, leader of the PES group, who led the protest against the...
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05-11-2004 • News & Events
President believes MEPs will accept new Italian candidate for justice post
Jose Manuel Barroso, the new EU commission president, won the backing of EU leaders last night for a mini-reshuffle of
his team which should resolve an institutional crisis that has paralysed the union for weeks.
Mr Barroso presented a summit of European heads of state with a revamped line-up of the...
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25-10-2004 • News & Events
JUNCKER WARNS OF 'ABSOLUTE CRISIS' IF FRANCE REJECTS CONSTITUTION(http://euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=17600)
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25-10-2004 • News & Events
UK REFERENDUM ON EU CONSTITUTION SET FOR MARCH 2006(http://euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=17599)
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19-10-2004 • News & Events
Outgoing commission chief Romano Prodi has told an audience in Poland that EU citizens share a ‘common destiny’.
Two weeks before the end of his term, Prodi said that his objective when taking office in 1999 was to unify the
continent of Europe.
The EU’s biggest contribution, “to stability and development across Europe - politically, economically and
culturally - was the...
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Published at 18-10-2004 from International Herald Tribune
The dispute that engulfed Rocco Buttiglione and the 732-member European Parliament last week was partly about a
prospective member of Europe's executive body professing unacceptable views and the legislature rising up to censure
him.
But, as the normally tame Parliament suddenly showed its claws, the quarrel also raised questions about the place of
democracy in the European... |
Published at 12-10-2004 from CEORG
DISSATISFACTION WITH CURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION IN VISEGRAD FOUR COUNTRIES
Full text is availabe in PDF format
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12-10-2004 • News & Events
Poland and majority of new EU members believe that Brussels should increase the limit of funds set aside to finance
regional policy.
Currently 4% of each nation's GDP is designated for this purpose, which disproportionately promotes richer countries.
Poland believes that keeping the limit at the current level might block domestic investment abilities. "In case of a
rapidly...
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