The foreign ministers meeting held during Germany s EU Council presidency produced the Nuremberg Declaration, which established a framework for closer EU ASEAN partnership.

So it is right that the EU Council of Ministers is meeting to grapple with this challenge.

Government ministers and EU representatives repeatedly cite the example of Iceland in pointing out what might have happened to Ireland if it had been outside the EU.

It was both right and important that the EU Council of Foreign Ministers agreed on sanctions against Iran.

Many Governments and international organizations have endorsed its use, including the Group of Eight Ministers, EU and dozens of countries.

This is already the case in some areas consider the EU wide Ecofin and the eurozone only Eurogroup of Finance Ministers.

NATO s presidents and prime ministers could simply cross the Baltic Sea from Riga for a half day Afghanistan summit with the EU in Helsinki.

So the British, under Tony Blair s current presidency of the EU Council of Ministers, have gotten their way for now, and the Americans keen backers of Turkey s EU aspirations have once again succeeded in acting as a European power.

The current crisis has, however, also shown that the Council of Finance Ministers (Ecofin) is unable to assert such control over EU member states fiscal policies.

None of the leading EU states foreign ministers seems even to have made an attempt to mediate between Europe s two closest Mediterranean partners, Israel and Turkey.

The EU Council of Ministers is scheduled to meet in November to discuss the second EUFOR mission review and agree on the mandate and force structure for 2006.

Thinking about the consequences that such a Europe would have on EU institutions, one must ask how the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of Ministers would function.

Indeed Irish ministers argue that Ireland would have gone the way of Iceland in recent months were it not for EU membership and the protections afforded by euro zone membership.

The US president should keep an eye on the calendar of the European Council, which brings the EU presidents and prime ministers together four times a year, and solicit an occasional invitation.

At the end of the year, a meeting of EU foreign ministers and their colleagues from the six partners will assess the progress made so far and give guidance on the way ahead.

On final status issues, EU ministers on 18 July recalled that the Union will not recognize any change to the pre 1967 borders other than those arrived at by agreement between the parties.

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Women are regularly appointed ministers, parliamentary secretaries and advisers to the provincial Chief Ministers.

Through Europol and Eurojust, European police forces and judicial authorities have intensified cooperation, and ministers are preparing to grant law enforcement agencies of other EU countries access to national databases of DNA and fingerprints.

European Union (EU) ministers, on 18 July, recalled and stressed the global strategic importance of peace, stability and prosperity in the Mediterranean and the European commitment to the resolution of the Middle East conflict.

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Three ministers are women.

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Deputy Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and spouses thereof will be provided with VIP passes with photographs.

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Moreover, the new Commissioners will include three former prime ministers, five former foreign ministers, and three former finance ministers all heavyweight people with big political agendas at home.

Fundamental elements proposed by the European Union, in conformity with the Common Position adopted by the EU Council of Ministers, to be inserted in the Final Document of the 2005 NPT Conference concerning Main Committee III

The government includes a Council of Ministers, headed by the prime minister and five deputy prime ministers.

But it seems ages since a Belgian foreign minister (as chairman of the EU Council of Ministers) declared at an ASEAN meeting in Singapore in 1993 There are now only two superpowers left, the US and Europe!

During the reporting period, the Office of the High Representative, in close cooperation with the local authorities, stepped up its efforts to enhance the functioning of the Council of Ministers which is another EU Feasibility Study requirement.

We, the undersigned, believe that the EU, as one of the driving forces in international politics, needs to speak out in unison against governments oppressing their own citizens. The EU should denounce human rights violations in Cuba and call for the immediate release of all prisoners of conscience. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs from all EU member states should send a demarche on March 18th to their Cuban counterpart demanding their release as well.

He also appoints the prime minister and senior ministers, and must approve all other ministers, ambassadors, and state representatives.

Three women were Ministers of Justice, Education and Communications. Four were Deputy Ministers. Five were Directors General of Ministries.

Berlusconi s ministers have scarcely behaved better.

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Rather than tinkering, perhaps the EU should boldly create an American style bicameral system by turning the parliament into a House of Representatives and electing a Senate to replace the Council of Ministers, with two senators per member state.

As a follow up to the Eastern Partnership summit, the EU must initiate lower level meetings of interior ministers to discuss migration, visas, and counter terrorism, and should seek to integrate Ukraine and Moldova into the European energy market.

That is why it is so important that EU foreign ministers heed the European Parliament s call for serious sanctions against the Sudanese government, whose key players were clearly identified by a UN Commission of Inquiry and Panel of Experts.

In June 2005, justice ministers and interior ministers from the G8 countries agreed to launch an international database on pedophiles.

Moreover, on 14 May the State and entity prime ministers and finance ministers established the Bosnia and Herzegovina Fiscal Council.

During the previous six years, there were six prime ministers, ten defense ministers, and 14 justice ministers (ten of whom came and went during the 39 months of rule by the Democratic Party of Japan).

I recall that a similar rule was also applied at the summit meeting for our Presidents, Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers.

The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

Education ministers should demand healthy school meals.