He was a powerful mediator in Central European affairs.

They are also a powerful tool for European leadership in global affairs.

European Socialists are also finding it hard to distinguish themselves in foreign affairs.

The EU s high representative would straddle the European Commission and the European Council to look after foreign affairs and security, and the European Parliament would have more power.

In France s pre presidential electoral campaign, European affairs are mentioned or whispered, but almost never debated.

In international affairs, Merkel is more skeptical about European enlargement, notably to include Turkey, than Schröder.

Nationalism continues to produce powerful political antibodies to American and European meddling in other countries internal affairs.

Those votes partly reflected displeasure with domestic policies, and partly disappointment with the way governments conduct European affairs.

5.30 p.m. Ms. Benita Ferrero Waldner, European Union External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy Commissioner and Mr. Louis Michel, European Union Development and Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner (on the European Union's commitment to and contributions towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals)

But most attention has focused on the EU s three top positions the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council, and the High Representative for external affairs.

Meanwhile, Italy must decide whether it replaces Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who displayed no interest in reform and European affairs, with the cautious Romano Prodi, the former European Commission President.

That inspiration remains the foundation and lodestar of the European Union in world affairs and in its actions and policies.

It is hard for Americans, whose world series are essentially domestic affairs, to understand the emotions engendered in European citizens when their nations compete for the European soccer championship every four years.

A European political union could also make Europe a power comparable to the United States, and thereby give France, with its sophisticated foreign service, an important role in European and world affairs.

During the years 2000 2004, a Greek woman served as a Commissioner in the European Union, competent for social affairs and employment.

But the Eurogroup (a meeting of eurozone finance ministers attended by the European Union s economic and monetary affairs commissioner and the European Central Bank president) is suggesting that, until then, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and thus the taxpayers will fill the gap.

It was to have both diplomatic and military powers, as well as a legislative assembly much like today s European Parliament just as the 2005 EU constitutional plan would have extended the European Parliament s powers and created a European minister of foreign affairs.

Like many European countries, the ECFR s Scorecard observed that Germany s efforts to deal with the economic crisis left little room for foreign affairs.

(u) Consultations with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Justice (Paris, 20 September 2004) and the European Commission (Brussels, 27 September 2004)

France needs a debate on European Union affairs, but only as long as it does not degenerate as is common in Europe into self flagellation.

The response was eventually enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty, which extended the European Union s competences to foreign affairs and judicial matters, making them partly supranational.

The European Union has recently taken important steps towards greater cohesion and unity with the appointment of a President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

We decide that during the period 2006 2007 the Chairman in Office will be H.E. Mrs. Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.

On 11 October 2004, the General Affairs and External Relations Council approved the operational plan for Operation Althea, the largest European led military operation so far.

There would also be political problems. Would a country that leaves the EMU be given a diminished role in EcoFin, the European Economic and Financial Affairs Council?

This programme was co financed by the Directorate General of Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission (80 ) and the General Secretariat for Gender Equality (20 ).

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In the next few years, Russia will offer Europe a great opportunity for closer cooperation, but it will also pose a risk of increased intrusion in European affairs.

The European Commission has surely been strongly cautioned by the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund, whose economists have thoroughly catalogued the pros and cons of FTTs.

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The European Union, now through High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, has always been a key actor in the negotiations between Iran and the P5 1.

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BRUSSELS Anyone reflecting on the value, weight, and relevance of today s European military forces for global affairs needs to keep two crucial questions in mind Where do we want to go?

On 23 November 2004, the General Affairs and External Relations Council of the European Union adopted its conclusions on the renewed commitment of the European Union to the International Conference on Population and Development in the context of the Development Goals set out in the Millennium Declaration.

However, with the slavery crisis coming to a head in the late 1850s and with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the American public's interest in European affairs declined.

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