Constitutional gender equality European Union policy

The National Farmers' Union biofuel policy. The National Farmers' Union (NFU) of the United Kingdom

Accordingly, new joint policy initiatives will address economic growth, banking union, and liquidity.

Strasbourg The European Union recently embarked on a policy of constructive engagement with Belarus.

A common fiscal policy remains a distant dream, as does a genuine political union.

LONDON Officially, the European Union has one Balkan policy admit the region s six countries.

European security policy has followed several different paths during the 1990s, developing simultaneously within the Western European Union, NATO and the European Union itself.

(g) Advise the Secretary General on policy and strategic issues related to European Union institutions.

Whilst there is no existing policy prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace, the Vanuatu Teachers Union does have a policy against sexual harassment in place.

Strasbourg The European Union recently embarked on a policy of constructive engagement with Belarus. None too soon.

As already proposed by the Convention, this would mean separating constitutional matters per se from Union policy.

SELECTED FREE TRADE, CUSTOMS UNION, ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP OR COMMON MARKET AGREEMENTS WITH COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY PROVISIONS

His three main policy instruments toward the post Soviet states are the customs union implied by his proposed Eurasian Union, Gazprom, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Rather than moving forward in the direction of an economic union, it reverted to a policy favoring national solutions.

This means that, when considering a new eastern policy, the European Union must focus first and foremost on Ukraine.

Regional policy in the European Union Although the European Union is one of the richest parts of the world, there are large internal disparities of income and opportunity between its regions.

For the European Union, the leading authority in international climate policy, the outcome of the Copenhagen summit was particularly disappointing.

This would be in the spirit of the Glasnost policy that was by then already established in the Soviet Union.

Serbian foreign policy is focused on achieving the strategic goal of becoming a member state of the European Union (EU).

The SPD initially supported de Maizière's policy of quick union with West Germany, but left the cabinet on 20 August.

UNCTAD also prepared a draft agreement for regional competition policy for member States of the South African Customs Union (SACU).

If American policy has failed to deal with this growing problem, European policy has focused on technical assistance, with the European Union providing 125 million in aid between 2002 and 2006.

On issues of foreign and security policy, moreover, agreement among the heavy weights of the Union is essential for common action.

Trade policy is managed by the European Union, where Finland has traditionally been among the free trade supporters, except for agriculture.

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is participating in the chemical substance policy review of the European Union Commission with the goal of a comprehensive system for the registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals.

Since 2003, Croatian foreign policy has focused on achieving the strategic goal of becoming a member state of the European Union (EU).

As an acceding country to the European Union (EU), we will take on board new responsibilities in the field of development policy.

For India, the end of the Cold War triggered a foreign policy crisis by eliminating the country s most reliable partner, the Soviet Union.

This policy involved sending Russians from various parts of the Soviet Union and placing them in key positions in the Byelorussian SSR government.

The same is true of developments like the Union's common foreign and security policy or Monetary Union, with its Euro and European Central Bank.

With Stalin gaining absolute power through the Great Purge of 1938, the Soviet Union changed its foreign policy toward Finland in the late 1930s.

The European Union, for its part, has used its development policy and other cooperation programmes to provide a basis for post conflict reconstruction activities.

Thirdly, in cooperation with UNICEF, the European Union has launched a children's rights training programme for Union officials and the issue has also been introduced in training activities related to the European Security and Defence Policy and crisis management.

The part that was actually rejected and raises the most concerns among citizens of the member States is in Part III, which focuses on Union policies such as the Common Market, competition policy and the Common Agricultural Policy.

This New Year s Eve, Sweden made history in a small way by ending the last rotating foreign and security policy presidency of the European Union.

The trick for the Union is to develop shared solutions and to take joint foreign policy actions, even when various EU governments see things differently.

Even more impressive, the lack of full political union in Europe has not stalemated the EU s adoption of the euro and the common monetary policy.

In accordance with Stalin's development policy of planned interdependence, all the economies of the socialist countries were tightly linked to that of the Soviet Union.

Developments over the last two years have exposed the weaknesses of a bare bones monetary union based only on a single monetary policy and fiscal discipline.

Innovation can be induced from an outside actor (such as the case of the European Union and its accession policy) or it can be internally driven.

The European Trade Union Confederation has established a permanent trade union committee on sustainable development, with climate change as a major focus, to undertake a major study of employment impacts of climate change, identifying strategic policy avenues for job creation and environmental protection.

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)

Instituting public debate on European policy throughout the Union will help clarify the aims of the unification project, make common interests apparent, and determine Europe s institutional shape.

She welcomed the focus of Latvia's social policy on empowering individuals and congratulated the country on its accession to the European Union with all that that implied.

Ever closer union means an EU that moves ineluctably from economic and monetary union to banking union, then to fiscal union, and finally to political union.