Sweden s assumption of the EU Presidency this month should help these efforts.

The presidency of the EU would mark the twilight of her career.

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

Sarkozy regards an EU economic government as a way to preserve his leadership in the EU beyond France s Council presidency, which is now ending.

The rotating presidency of the EU is about to shed a spotlight on one of these countries.

The current EU presidency was able to convince the US administration that reviving the Quartet could be useful.

The Swedish EU Presidency will concentrate on starting up the concrete work the nuts and bolts of the Partnership.

We would also like to associate ourselves with the statement made by the presidency of the European Union (EU).

The research results will be presented in September 2004, during a two day European conference during the Netherlands EU Presidency.

The aim is to leave to Germany s successors in the EU presidency Slovenia, Portugal, and France a roadmap for future reform.

Thus it is vitally important that Germany has made this a central issue for its EU presidency, which is just beginning.

Indeed, Erdoğan s has warned of a diplomatic rupture with the EU if Cyprus accedes to the Union s rotating presidency in 2012.

I hope that the Spanish EU Presidency will build on this experience to champion the launch of a comprehensive European Roma strategy.

Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme, as current holder of the rotating EU presidency, now speaks of greater European policy unity and coordination.

Although the Czech Republic will assume the EU presidency in January, this has not prevented the French President from convening a new EU summit under Sarkozy s leadership in the first half of 2009.

Italy, as a member of the European Union (EU) and as the holder of its presidency two years ago, when the revitalization process was initiated, recalls the role played by the EU and notes that many EU proposals are reflected in resolution 59 95.

Whatever is decided about Zimbabwe s participation at the Cannes summit will also have an impact on plans for a major EU Africa Summit in Lisbon this fall, during Portugal s presidency of the EU. During the last Portuguese Presidency (January June 2000), the EU Africa Summit had to be cancelled because of a visa ban on Zimbabwean officials and the reluctance of Africans to attend if Mugabe was excluded.

France s presidency of the EU during the second half of 2008 showed that dynamic leadership is a quality widely appreciated by the European public.

The EU presidency represents us so well and so fully that it is difficult for us to find anything we would like to add.

Mr. Carvell (United Kingdom) said that, as his country currently held the presidency of the EU, he would like to consult fellow EU member States before giving a considered response to the concerns that had been expressed.

For once, the faltering Czech presidency of the EU reflected a European consensus when it defined Obama s astronomic financial stimulus as a road to hell.

French and British leaders engaged in a heated quarrel that derailed the subsequent summit, before Britain assumed the rotating six month EU presidency in July.

Indeed, while talking tough under the guidance of Nicolas Sarkozy s France, which currently holds the EU presidency, Europe has de facto resigned itself to Georgia s dismemberment.

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.

Mr. Carvell (United Kingdom), speaking as a representative of the current holder of the presidency of the European Union (EU), said that the delegations of EU member States had held informal consultations on the queries that had been raised at the previous meeting regarding possible EU ratification of the draft convention.

That summit comes at an auspicious time, as the EU reviews its European Neighborhood Policy (launched in 2004) and the Eastern Partnership (launched in 2009), ahead of a second grand summit in Budapest under the Hungarian EU presidency in May 2011.

France must show during its presidency that it truly cares for Europe and its role in the world, and that the EU is more than a French tool. Building a new leadership team for the EU will be Sarkozy s main task.

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It is the Czech Republic s task, and that of the Swedish EU presidency that will follow our own, to maintain this unity as the PCA negotiations move forward.

BERLIN Whether or not the French presidency of the EU, which begins next month, is successful will depend in large part on whether Franco German cooperation can be revived.

The aim should be that by the close of Poland s EU presidency at the end of that year, all the countries will have completed screening and achieved candidate status.

For the EU to succeed, it must pursue the policy launched by the French Presidency, giving priority to stopping the war and distancing itself from Israel s disproportionate use of force.

Mr. Trezza (Italy) Italy fully supports and associates itself with the statement made by the delegation of the United Kingdom on behalf of the presidency of the European Union (EU).

Croatia has fully aligned itself with the statement made yesterday by the representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union (EU) presidency, so I will not repeat the points made therein.

The Community College Presidency.

Just over a year ago, the Finnish EU presidency failed to break the gridlock over the Cyprus trade issue, illustrating again the limited value of trying to agree partial solutions and confidence building measures.

If Sarkozy s presidency has any relevance to Franco German relations, it may be to reinforce the view that the EU needs new leadership, and that it must still be based on the founding partners.

In the course of this visit, the members of the Bosnia and Herzegovina presidency and the Serbian President officially agreed that their countries' common goal was membership in EU and the Partnership for Peace.

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Whereas Sarkozy views nuclear power as a promising source of renewable energy, Germany remains adamantly opposed to it a policy that Chancellor Angela Merkel placed at the top of her agenda during Germany s EU presidency in 2007.

Interestingly, there was some discussion under the French presidency about reforming the so called Athena Mechanism, which is the means used to determine the amount that each EU member state contributes to the common costs of a mission.