The EU is actually a set of complex networks, organized around specific policy domains. |
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Strong regulations that limited overtime in northern continental Europe are being loosened in response to EU policy. |
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If a European referendum is held, it will be time to settle accounts with the EU kleptocracy. |
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There has been a gradual reduction in the size of the fishing industry in the UK as EU fishing policies have bitten hard over the last decade. |
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But human rights are not trifling matters and the EU, if it is to remain true to its founding principles, must not gloss over such matters. |
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However, there is a question mark over the legality of such a loan under EU rules. |
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They say they have no idea when or how Beggs got into the country because of slack EU border controls. |
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The other major powers are keen for the EU to press ahead with the Kyoto protocol without the US if need be. |
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The compensation levels will become legally binding on all airlines in the EU once the European Parliament passes the bill. |
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Half British exports are directed outside the EU and the financial relationship with the United States is the most important of all. |
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How does the EU make the distinction between an illegal migrant and an asylum seeker? |
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Total domestic demand is estimated to have grown 2.8 percent in the US, 0.7 percent in the EU and minus 1.4 percent in Japan. |
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Three weeks after the collapse of the European Union's growth and stability pact, it looks like the proposed EU constitution is dead on arrival. |
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Meat which is not fit for consumption in the EU is now heading for South Africa. |
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The distinctive ambulance is a luminous yellow colour and conforms to new EU regulations for ambulance services across Europe. |
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Indeed, if they find themselves restrained by a new gripping torpor, they will soon weary of being part of the EU family. |
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Large disparities in the contributions member nations were expected to make to the EU budget caused no small amount of acrimony. |
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As those markets emerge and benefit from increased EU integration, the builders' merchants businesses within them should prosper. |
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He said the Department of Health had years of notice to ensure the smooth transposition of the EU directive into Irish law. |
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Unlike directives, EU regulations have the force of law without requiring transposition into national legislation. |
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Accounts of European social policy generally still present a minimalist interpretation of EU involvement. |
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In the EU, approximately 13,000 cancer patients undergo autologous bone marrow transplant each year. |
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When Washington conceded last year that the ETI should be removed, the EU refrained from imposing trade sanctions. |
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The EU is engaged in a quiet dialogue with the Indian Government in bettering the HR condition here. |
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I would have one single rate of Vat or harmonise our excise duties to the average EU level. |
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The reluctance to wave the big stick at employers does not betoken EU indifference. |
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He said his plans will be spelled out in more detail in the strategy he will present to the EU later this week. |
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British and EU officials frequently attack Swiss banking secrecy as providing a haven for money launderers and tax dodgers. |
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If relations continue to deteriorate between the EU and the US, what are the odds on a trade war? |
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Whether the EU matches its efforts in that direction with a concomitant effort towards educating its own peoples I cannot say. |
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European Studies is taught as a subject in the school and many students have entered EU organised competitions with great success. |
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And clearly, the EU path, in some form or another is the world of the future whatever the Beltway bandits think. |
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Up to seventy radioactive sources disappear from regulatory control annually within the EU alone, according to disturbing current estimates. |
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Their decision means the EU is de facto the primary standard setter in the area of European environmental policy. |
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In one way or another, all these moves in its backyard overrode or scanted EU sensibilities. |
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We had too many utopian ideals force-fed to us to believe that the EU is the answer to all our problems. |
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The road is measured in miles, or in these EU directed metric times, kilometres and the journey in hours and minutes. |
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He launched a scathing attack on both the EU and the Department of Marine in advance of tomorrow's blockade of fishing ports. |
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She stressed that the other EU states took the same stance, and added that she was waiting for a reply from the United States. |
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In October 2001, the EU Council of Ministers gave the commission a mandate to negotiate a revision of the convention. |
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This has severely hampered the government's efforts to convince those skeptical of the EU to trust it in the matter of the constitution. |
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Due to these protests, the government was forced to back-pedal, creating enormous pressure as the time limit for fulfilling EU conditions nears. |
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Most of the land had been included in EU set-aside schemes and a riding school was operating on the remaining part of the farm. |
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Under EU regulations, a new vessel can only be introduced into a national fleet after its equivalent, in terms of tonnage and power, is replaced. |
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Money for the estate and a derelict manor house will come from the Millennium Fund, the EU and direct government funds. |
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There has often been tension between conflicting ideas about the scope of EU competence and the policy-making process. |
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However, while the EU has been valiantly trying to appear to be neutral in the Middle East conflict, the funding is a ripe area for confusion. |
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This kind of racism pervades newspaper and broadcast journalism in EU countries. |
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Its only commitments, expressed with imprecision, were to statutory recognition, a minimum wage and adhesion to the EU Social Chapter. |
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The EU has implemented an immediate ban on all shows, markets, fairs and sales involving collections of birds within its borders. |
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It took Dutch farmers some two years to make their case in Brussels, however the EU juggernaut is revving up at this stage. |
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So, Mesdames and Messiurs, the victim of the events of the past week is not the EU itself, nor the social model of Western Europe. |
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The EU Chemicals Directive is probably one of the most senseless wastes of time and effort ever. |
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That poor bloke has been caught with his hand in the till over his EU expenses. |
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I don't often cheer the EU on, but in this case I hope they put a stop to what I think is a bad move. |
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When large banks in one country try to make acquisitions in another, national regulators, in flagrant breach of EU rules, quietly veto them. |
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The EU utterly condemns the perpetrators and sponsors of these acts of barbarism. |
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Minister Walsh also met with the Agriculture and EU Affairs Committees of the Sejm. |
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Mr Dukes added that on the last occasion, EU agricultural interests were bargained away for gains in other sectors. |
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The EU is considering making all-risks, third-party insurance compulsory for ships carrying crude oil. |
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The European Council has passed the measure but the deadline for its adoption into the laws of EU member states is still 15 months away. |
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However, before becoming law the measure will have to go through several more stages and needs to be approved by EU ministers. |
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The EU estimates that about 370,000 of those could migrate westwards in search of work. |
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A condition of entry is that the beef must meet all EU veterinary and hygiene standards. |
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However warm or cold we are to the general idea of the EU, nothing we decide just now will slow or speed up its political momentum. |
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Yesterday's EU test followed the discovery on Monday of bird flu on a Greek Aegean island. |
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The EU could import around 200,000 tonnes of rape oil in 2005-06, with most supplies coming from Canada. |
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Cork City Council has converted 17 of their vehicles to run on rapeseed oil, under the EU CIVITAS programme. |
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The two countries have obviously been shaken by the sniffy reaction of much of Europe to the EU Constitution. |
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But the recent rapprochement between the EU and Libya signalled that an end to the embargo was imminent. |
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Even before the EU summit, Paris, Berlin and Moscow had been scrambling to effect a rapprochement with Washington. |
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It is a rare viral disease of a range of freshwater fish but is not notifiable under EU Fish Health legislation. |
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He warned their entry to the EU depended on member states ratifying the accession treaties. |
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Perhaps it was an inevitable by-product of the Bosman ruling, which allowed holders of EU passports to be treated the same as nationals. |
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Europeans are already using the Internet to navigate around some of the EU regulations that inflate the price of books, cars, and other items. |
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The establishment of a common market has always been one of the primary aims of the EU, as stated in the Treaty of Rome. |
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This same fear has shaped the British bourgeoisie's attitude to the EU project. |
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They concentrated on simple, direct promises to voters, while the other parties squabbled over more esoteric issues like EU expansion. |
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The EU ordered Microsoft to sell a version of Windows without its media player. |
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In his opinion, the wind-ups are the result of Bulgaria's pending EU accession. |
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Ghana has been flooded with cheap tomatoes, grown in European Union countries and subsidised by EU taxpayers, making his own efforts unsellable. |
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While the EU has a common external tariff, each member can maintain its own non-tariff trade barriers. |
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The agreement placed a greater emphasis on dialogue between the EU and recipient states. |
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A triumphant outcome for the USA from the Iraqi situation will be a disaster for the EU since it will inevitably be accompanied by vengefulness. |
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It would be an impossible precedent for the EU to accept one country that does not recognize the legitimate government of another EU member. |
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When a similar party became a coalition partner in Austria, the EU took immediate action to bring them to heel. |
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The EU said in a statement it believes that the highest incidence of poverty is among the smallholder communal farmers. |
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One party, whose members believe Britain should withdraw from the EU, is expected to make huge gains. |
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A spokesperson for the EU said that while the Irish approach might be unorthodox, it wasn't unethical. |
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For instance, seed potatoes cannot be sold in the EU unless they are devoid of the potato brown rot agent Ralstonia solanacearum. |
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Even under existing arrangements, the demand within the EU is that sovereign nations submit themselves to intellectual and political uniformity. |
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If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently. |
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The conclusion is that the EU today is the most extensive economic cooperation project among sovereign nation states. |
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India in particular is a world power in its own right, rivalling the EU in influence. |
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However, the primary aim of the EU has always been to promote peaceful cooperation between European nations, not to create a new world power. |
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Are you bothered by the idea that you could have an EU flag on your car number-plate but not a Union Jack? |
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In theory, a member state can opt out of the EU at any time, reverting to its status as a sovereign nation outside of the EU framework. |
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Mr Walsh praised the industry's efforts in broadening and expanding its market reach at EU retail level. |
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Failure to support economic regeneration in the east could be destabilizing for the EU as a whole. |
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More than a political and economic union, the EU represents a community of values. |
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Karmenu Farrugia is yet another Labourite who has expressed himself in favour of Malta's EU accession. |
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One can only suspect that both the US and the EU are responding to pressure from business leaders not to regulate their overseas activities. |
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It is imperative that the Irish and EU Governments introduce legislation and support services for these very vulnerable women. |
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She also shows that Irish women are lagging way behind their EU counterparts in taking the reins of power when it comes to running the country. |
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Even EU President Romano Prodi has said he views economic union as going hand in hand with political union. |
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Seeing that fewer than half the EU electorate picked these MEP characters, is it any wonder that apathy abounds? |
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But the Commission's latest offer reiterates clearly that the EU is not prepared to contribute to a new agreement at any price. |
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With its directives on the correct shape of fruit, production quotas, wine lakes and butter mountains the EU is baffling at the best of times. |
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This has been mirrored in the relaunch of the EU and the movement towards greater economic and political integration in the West. |
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Negotiations by the EU and the US led to their release on condition they be exiled to Europe. |
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Under the bonnet, the engines will all be the latest multivalve units which have been modified to cope with the 2005 EU rules on emissions. |
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Will farmers face loss of EU payments or penalties if they have a stocking rate above 0.8 of a cow per acre? |
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A spokesperson for Oxfam said that the EU, US and others are carving up the world into a series of agreements that undermine multilateralism. |
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As for Poland's two million farmers, the poorest two thirds are expected to go to the wall following EU entry. |
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The multifunctional role of agriculture in the EU, including its environmental, food quality and rural development roles, would be abandoned. |
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The documents, along with those of other EU states, will be deposited at the United Nations by June at the latest. |
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During a speech in Athens she said concerns over neutrality had been addressed at the recent EU summit in Seville. |
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Whilst 3 million jobs may or may not depend on our trade with the EU, relatively few would be lost through a Brixit. |
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Still the degree of solidarity expressed by our US friends since last Monday's EU reprimand over Irish budgetary policy was impressive. |
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A real breakaway from their studies is in store for two Killarney students in March as they head off to Helsinki to take part in EU debates. |
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The Government plans to introduce a new EU directive which will require oil and brake fluid to be drained out of a car before it can be scrapped. |
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It is important for students of law to situate the legal doctrine of the EU in its historical and political context. |
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At first sight, the emergence of the EU as a regional grouping seems to be in contradiction with the direction and thrust of globalization. |
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The government has taken financial measures to optimise the phasing of EU structural funds. |
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They want the government to withdraw from the economy completely and the EU turned into a Zollverein. |
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It is not the French people with whom I have any quarrel, but their corporate interpretation and abuse of EU rules does stick in the gullet. |
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The French goal is to use the EU to separate the British from the Anglosphere. |
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The EU draft Constitution rests upon the premise that power is assumed and concentrated in the Government and thus, flows from the top down. |
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Citizens of all EU countries have been exchanging dollars for euros, as acceptability of the currency has plunged. |
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If the EU Council adopted the legislative proposal of May 18th, it would do so without democratic legitimacy. |
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An EU ruling makes it illegal to supply hydrogen peroxide bleach at over 0.1 per cent concentration. |
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Tony Blair urged fellow EU leaders yesterday not to yield in future confrontations with anti-capitalists who disrupted their Gothenburg summit. |
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He appealed to the EU not to channel the money through the banks but directly empower the miners through their associations. |
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The tests showed the levels were within the acceptable standards for the EU and New Zealand. |
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Forthcoming EU legislation could criminalise Europeans who circumvent copyright protection. |
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As the EU enlarges into the Balkans, the ratio of sprats to sharks will increase. |
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Tobacco smuggling is the biggest fraud, in terms of revenue, against EU countries, according to the European Commission's anti-fraud office. |
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At present the EU has a powerful lever to put pressure on candidate countries to pay more than lip service to demands for minority rights. |
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The EU has set up an anti-piracy naval operation for the Gulf of Aden, headquartered at Northwood, Middlesex. |
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As far as the great EU socialist leaders are concerned, the mob rules in America. |
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It sickened him to hear people talking about the great country Ireland was because of EU funds. |
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Oh, how right the EU Parliament was to blackball him from the EU Commission! |
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Inevitably, the transformation of Ireland and the EU is ringing the changes of a society that is refusing to stand still. |
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It means busloads of energetic young Poles making their way to Britain, and other parts of the EU, in search of work. |
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It also proposed allowing governments to resume aid to help EU shipbuilders compete with Korean rivals. |
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The commission says Kosovo should be made independent by next year and embark on a four-stage process to EU accession. |
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The new Bulgarian Cabinet plans to accept all reforms, related to EU accession, by the end of September. |
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According to an EU ruling, marmalade can contain only citrus fruit, not apricots or other soft fruit. |
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Sweden has actively supported Bulgaria's EU accession throughout the negotiation process. |
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All the while we remain in the EU, our federalist politicians in all three of the old parties will feel obliged to support Germany and France. |
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While per capita consumption in the EU is declining consumption in Ireland is rocketing ahead. |
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It is the final arbiter in disputes about the interpretation of the EU Treaties, or secondary legislation based on the Treaties. |
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This is just a try-on by the EU Commission and others, and we will not put up with it. |
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The price often seems to rise inexorably as more voices must be accommodated at every turn, especially as the EU enlarges. |
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But non-membership of the EU will be an obstacle, since it will hinder cross-border consolidation. |
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In a statement, the Department stressed its handling of all aspects of BSE fully accords with EU and national legislation. |
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The EU yesterday banned the import of live birds, poultry meat and feathers from Romania for at least six months. |
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The place of faith within politics looks likely to remain a live issue as the case for Turkish EU membership is made. |
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In addition, the negotiations by the EU aim at separate accords with each region, and no country may negotiate in more than one bloc. |
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We are in favour of a rotational presidency and for an opportunity for each country to participate actively in EU foreign policy. |
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Today the EU seeks to organise Europeans around a consciousness of vulnerability. |
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However, much debate is expected in the snakepit of EU politics before details of how much exactly will be allocated, and how it will be spent, is finalised. |
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After EU accession, the donor landscape for watchdogs and activist groups fundamentally changed for countries in Eastern Europe. |
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But it seems pretty clear that the EU has plans to make such plans, and this issue is going to be pressed in the months ahead. |
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Today, Turkey in the German imagination has mostly to do with immigration, assimilation, and EU membership. |
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The gunmen robbed the EU delegation at gunpoint before shooting at passing cars and making their escape. |
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China has been a leading source of dodgy carbon offsets used by the EU carbon trading scheme. |
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He added that the enlargement process of the EU was a reversible process and that each candidate country should be granted accession according to its own merits. |
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Voting concluded in the Czech Republic yesterday. The second largest of the ten nations set to join the EU in May 2004, accession is likely to be approved by a slim majority. |
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Only one major EU nation will allow unrestricted immigration immediately. |
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The world's first commercial wave-power plant, on the island of Islay, produces electricity for 400 homes and is already being studied by other EU countries. |
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That plan will see a ban on driftnets in some EU waters and the use of acoustic devices, or pingers, to repel dolphins and related species from driftnets. |
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Both the EU and the French government will come under pressure to fork over handouts to struggling vintners and to push for quotas on New World imports. |
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There is no doubt we went mad in terms of exposing ourselves to increased debt as we dramatically caught up with the EU average on that score in jig time. |
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More than 200 weedkillers, mainly lawn treatments, are being withdrawn from the market after manufacturers chose not to submit them for EU safety tests. |
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A decade later, at the EU Luxembourg summit, Turkey watched several former communist countries jump the queue, while it was not even considered a candidate for accession. |
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The EU, US, Japan and other subsidy junkies must kick the habit. |
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The treaty requires ratification by referenda in a number of EU states. |
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Mr Wilson said that EU rules now required the percentage of ingredients, such as peppermint oil in Kendal mint cake, to be added to the existing ingredients list. |
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His declaration is the first time a sitting Conservative MP has advocated a complete break with the EU and is sure to provoke a sharp rebuke from party whips. |
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The deal still has to pass the Cypriot parliament, the IMF, the EU, and various European governments. |
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The engine meets EU emission requirements without secondary air injection or exhaust gas recirculation, thanks to its base design and engine computer. |
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The introduction of proposed EU legislation on the need for more recyclable plastics in vehicles will also encourage the use of such material in Europe. |
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With legalities out of the way, the EU is knuckling down to the serious process of its fifth enlargement, bringing the Union to a total of 25 countries. |
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In short, they threw away the EU pledge of deposit insurance, which is the last defense against nationwide bank runs. |
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Urgent action needs to be taken to prevent ships within the EU reflagging. |
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The rising euro and the refusal of the EU commissariat to reflate the EU economy implies that the exporting side of the Irish economy will be squeezed. |
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He portrays Merkel holding a Euro-topped scepter as she sits on a throne adorned with an EU emblem-inspired clock. |
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He said it was not an acceptable argument to say it was all right for inflation to be well above the EU norm simply because Irish growth is significantly higher. |
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The EU, and particularly the eurozone members of the EU, is at risk of a double-dip recession. |
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The EU needs another Greece or Portugal dragging down the euro like the EU needs another bureaucrat in Brussels. |
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If the EU Commission is thought to be acting with undue zealousness in the application of the pact it may work against the pro-euro cause in Britain, Denmark and Sweden. |
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Of the 12 original Barcelona partners, Cyprus and Malta are inside the EU and Turkey is in the waiting room, but the rest have zero chance of joining. |
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The Irish position has caused resentment among our partners, which was partly responsible for the reprimand of Minister McCreevey by his EU colleagues at the ECOFIN meeting. |
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These crimes include terrorism, money laundering, illegal drug and human trafficking, illicit weapons trading, blackmailing and embezzlement of EU funds. |
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From early on it became clear to close observers of the EU that the role and rule of law were going to be critical in anchoring EU policy regimes. |
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The EU has said, since Haaretz broke the story, er, well, we have no such plans. |
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America also thinks the EU has got it wrong with regard to its overall competitiveness policy which it often terms Europe's anticompetitiveness policy. |
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And of course if Romania does join the EU in 2007 or 2008, a few years after that the leu will go the way of the mark and the peseta when Romania adopts the euro. |
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The whole issue of software patents recently came up in Europe as the EU debated whether to change its laws in order to come into line with the US and Japan. |
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The origins of this project lie in the aspirations of the EU to foster and develop greater links of communication and co-operation between Europeans. |
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The European Parliament approves the EU's budget, and co-decides most EU legislation with the Council of Ministers, which comprises the 15 member states. |
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Several EU nations, including Britain, France and Belgium have delivered their very own April Fools prank by failing to meet that self imposed deadline. |
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The major products for the EU market includes cut flowers and vegetables, live fish, fresh vegetables, honey, bees wax, cotton lint and fuzzy cotton. |
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The languages causing the headache for Brussels are Slovenian, Latvian and Lithuanian, all official languages in nations which joined the EU in May. |
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Interest group activity may provide a litmus test for the degree to which the supranational institutions of the EU exercise independent influence over the policy process. |
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These products would not enjoy tariff-free entry into the EU under the Israeli-EU free trade agreement. |
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Mr O'Sullivan believes that if the EU gives the go-ahead for the new scheme the entry premium loading could slip in unnoticed by many consumers by the end of June. |
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He said last night the move would prevent the waters from being looted and pillaged by other EU members, and introduce effective conservation of fish stocks. |
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Another possible EU equivalent to the tenth amendment might be a proposed catalogue of competences assigning policy responsibilities to specific levels of government. |
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America is assured of the active assistance of its EU and NATO partners. |
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The Dublin Convention set up an EU-wide data base of asylees and refugees and clarified responsibility for processing asylum seekers who had applied to several EU countries. |
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Brussels may be the home of the EU and, in some eyes, lumbered with that organisation's bureaucratic and dull reputation, but nothing could be further from the truth. |
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They guffawed that the EU might get the peace prize, but never the Nobel for economics or, indeed, for chemistry. |
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The member states were persuaded that an independent audit body was warranted, given the emergence of an EU budget with supranational characteristics. |
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With the EU expanding the real concern is that existing farmers will see their supports further eroded as new member states get a slice of the pie. |
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Most other countries in the EU had their sheep tagged years ago. |
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They babble on about the supposed benefits of EU membership as if this referendum was about whether we should remain in the EU or withdraw from it. |
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He said he stressed to Mr Mandelson that a key issue for Ireland is the mandate given to the Commission by the EU member states in these negotiations. |
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The EU has scotched the name the company had planned for the unbundled versions of its operating system that it must ship in Europe as result of last year's antitrust decree. |
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We've been working our little cotton socks off to source our chart albums within the EU at the lowest possible price and cutting our margins even more. |
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Exports to continental EU markets are likely to remain challenging. |
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We will not hesitate to launch an infringement procedure to make sure EU standards and obligations are fully respected. |
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We acknowledge that this change in the shape of the EU is indeed constitutional, does mark something pretty big, and merits the thumbprint of the nation to endorse it. |
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It was decided to include a Polish 'tick box' as Home Office statistics show they account for around 70 per cent of migrants from new EU member states in Eastern Europe. |
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I think they are miffed at us championing Turkey for EU membership. |
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At EU level, exports to the CEE countries countries are higher than imports, which is an indication of the trade surplus that the EU has with the region. |
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It may simply be a dressed up reaffirmation of their right to remain militarily neutral in any future global conflict into which the EU is sucked. |
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Apparently, this well-heeled, green-fingered chap is so proud of the vastness of the garden at his country pad that he has applied for an EU grant to help to develop it. |
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A no vote in France would also put pressure on Mr Blair to find acceptable minimalist reforms or see the EU evolve into a diffuse multi-speed bloc. |
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However they will be on probation for a number of years while shortfalls in their economies, governance and legal systems are ironed out and brought up to EU standards. |
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An EU Commission action plan on alternative fuels for transport identifies biofuels as the most realistic substitute for conventional petrol and diesel in the short term. |
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Modest EU missions have been sent to Macedonia, Bosnia and the Congo. |
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Together, the Council presidency, High Representative, and Commissioner for External Affairs form a troika which represents the EU as a whole in international diplomacy. |
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The EU estimates that the black economy accounts for around 20 per cent of the GDP in several countries, while the figure for other countries is put at 30 per cent. |
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Moreover an EU investigation into monopolizing practices by Gazprom may force the Kremlin to review its whole energy strategy. |
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Prodi's ambitious plans for EU expansion to the east will be sidetracked. |
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But as the U.S. and EU prepare to unveil new sanctions against Russia, Putin has decided the interactions should stop. |
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Under EU and Irish law, it is illegal to market uncertified seed. |
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Plato said that you can never have agreements between unequals, and consequently, without economic convergence, the EU will never strike a fair balance with the East. |
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The demand of being an EU state have been onerous and living conditions have not improved. |
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Partly through financial aid, partly by the exertion of tremendous pressure, countries bordering the EU have been forced to step up measures against asylum-seekers. |
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Hacker wins the prime ministership by denouncing an EU plot to outlaw the British sausage. |
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It contributed to the massive reduction in the numbers in agriculture throughout the EU with the exit of smallholders and the increased size of farm units. |
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Diesel fuel for fishermen is currently untaxed in many EU countries, but even so the costs for the industry have become prohibitive with a recent spike in the price of oil. |
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We also pushed them to fight against the vast amounts of untraceable, unlabeled non EU beef which is finding its way onto retail and wholesale markets. |
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The UK's approach to the negotiations on a replacement for the draft EU constitution is being seen in some European capitals as unwelcomely dictatorial. |
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Airline passengers who are bumped off flights or suffer serious delays will receive automatic compensation under rules agreed by the EU yesterday. |
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Simultaneous with this report were the bleatings of spinmeisters and revisionists, who are hoping to encourage the EU to lift its ban on biotech food. |
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In line with EU requirements however, the Cabinet will continue to expand the burden of excise duties on alcohol and cigarettes, and possibly fuels too. |
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The capital, Palermo, is also being spruced up with EU millions. |
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Some 500 women in traditional dress were on hand to welcome the delegation with smiles and flowers as a brass band played the EU and North Korean anthems. |
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In EU countries, the most common challenge with respect to this issue is related to the affordability of water bills. |
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Although, only courts of final appeal are bound to refer a question of EU law when one is addressed. |
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It also found farmers are allowing their sheep to overgraze lands to get extra EU payments. |
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The signing ceremony was attended by representatives of the State of South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Ruanda, UAE, WB, EU, IGAD and the Arab League. |
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Double boost as the EU gives approval to scrap mobile roaming charges and agrees tougher protection for travellers buying package holidays. |
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In current practice, the UK recognises the primacy of the European Court of Justice for those areas of law in which the EU has competency. |
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It also bans the labelling of EU products with the terms karoo lamb, rooibos and honeybush tea. |
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Requirements to the EU and World Trade Organisation have been major influence behind liberalisation in the region. |
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The Moldovan Parliament registered a bill to denunciate the country s EU association agreement brought forward by an opposition lawmaker. |
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Better now to stick to the EU money and let city chiefs glad-hand his way round the IFB and hope someone wants to invest their cash here. |
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There was nothing new, in this respect, in recognising the supremacy of EU law in the areas in which it applies. |
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Sweden was the first country to approve dexlansoprazole in the EU, followed by Lithuania, Belgium, Germany and Ireland. |
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Last year the ECJ ruled British Gas employee, Mr Lock, should, as a matter of EU law, have commission included in his holiday pay. |
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In early 2010, we introduced the first approved therapeutic option to the EU to treat LEMS, a rare, serious and debilitating disease. |
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If Orthodoxy always manifested a temporal presence, EU integration generated a specular revilement of religiosity. |
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The CEGB's power station legacy is now being run down due to age or EU emission regulations for coal-fired power stations. |
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The European Court of Justice acts as the independent judicial branch, interpreting EU law and treaties. |
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Bulgaria's Cabinet has renominated the Bulgarian judge at the Court of Justice of the EU, Mariyana Kancheva, for a second term. |
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It formulates the opinion of the parliament in questions of EU legislation. |
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We got EU funding for atwo lane bridge, but just built a bridge with a single lane and lights at each end to control the traffic flow. |
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That is also true of a significant number of EU members for whom Mr Blair's attitude seems too Atlanticist by half. |
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The way out for Bosnia is to join NATO and the EU, which will lead to better economic situation, Reeker added. |
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Greece needs to have its biggest lenders recapitalised by the end of the year, EU Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Tuesday. |
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The European Union Committee also scrutinises EU legislation and other EU proposals, as well as conducting inquiries. |
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The deal over quota-hopping,which allows foreign trawlers to scoop up Britain's EU quota of catches, could come within weeks, Mr Santer said. |
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The EU EOM Preliminary Statement issued on 13 May and the results of the EU EOM's media monitoring can be found on the mission's website. |
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An EU diplomat told AFP the decision was taken by so-called qualified majority vote. |
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In the EU today, animal welfare is viewed by consumers as an attribute of the overall quality of the food they purchase. |
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And it proposed that within 20 years, a single common EU driving licence should be mandatory. |
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In actual fact there are 2,100 separate settlements covering over 800,000 dunams, all NGO and EU protected, all originally illegal. |
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Boston, MA, announced it has approval from the US and EU for the Expect Slimline needle, which is used to collect organ tissue samples. |
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All vehicles should be compliant with relevant EU legislation for Stage Carriage bus or coach operation. |
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The CHP also promises that Turkey's EU accession process will end with full membership. |
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Includes flights, transport, accommodation, meals, tour guides, entrance fees and visa fees for UK and EU passport holders. |
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It gives the UAE a toehold in a country likely to join the EU, the world's biggest single market, in the next decade. |
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Most are unaware of the advancements that the EU has made toward becoming a nation-State. |
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The EU argues that the ACP should commit itself to open its markets and conclude free trade agreements. |
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Ashton citied an example in this regard noting that the EU is spending 4 million euro to reduce violence against women in Egypt. |
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On Monday evening, the civil liberties committee voted to strengthen EU data protection rules and to demand heavier fines for non-compliance. |
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In the end, if officials want their tiger economy to continue growing as an emerging world power, full EU membership may not be the way forward. |
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It is illegal under EU law to use nitrofurans because of the cancer risk, but the danger from one meal of it is considered low. |
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Under the memorandum, Bulgaria is to provide assistance to Montenegro for its EU and NATO accession. |
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But if it is really being lost to money-grubbers exploiting crazy EU rules, I think it should be thoroughly debated before it is too late. |
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Harsh winter in many EU countries makes snow tire an additional necessity for new vehicles. |
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The most frequently used mode of transport in every member state of the EU was the car, according to the latest Eurobarometer. |
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Missing trader fraud is where VAT registration is obtained to acquire goods VAT-free from other EU member states. |
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Missing trader fraud involves high-value goods which are imported from another EU country VAT-free. |
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I freely acknowledge the shambolic uncoordinated approach to the refugee crisis is playing well in the anti EU camp. |
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