EU leaders need to acknowledge this reality before it s too late.

Banking union, Europe s leaders agreed, means creating a single supervisory authority.

It gave Greek Cypriot leaders the possibility of blocking progress in negotiations between the EU and Turkey.

Now is the time for EU leaders to present Lukashenko with a clear alternative to dependence on Russia.

Yet there is much more that EU leaders can do to undermine the regime economically.

The EU s leaders will try hard to keep the IMF at bay.

Let s examine the illness that leads certain EU leaders with questionable scruples to forget even the recent past.

The will to act exists in the EU. Faced with the leaders of Europe s three largest economies, McCreevy is not a serious obstacle.

And, while European Union leaders have issued proposals for a banking and fiscal union, now Germany is pushing back.

And, when it comes to putting their ideas into practice, the European Union s leaders have fallen short repeatedly.

Nobody not even people closely involved in the process really knows how the European Union s leaders are chosen.

On October 29, leaders of the European Union will gather in Rome to sign the Union's new Constitutional Treaty.

While Europe s leaders shy away from the word, the reality is that much of the European Union is in depression.

But those commitments are still vague given the fact that EU leaders failed to say how much of the funding would be coming from Europe.

African Union leaders (AU), at their Summit meeting in Sirte, Libya, made strong commitments on governance and on creating an environment conducive to investment and development.

European Union leaders meeting at Hampton Court today condemned in the strongest terms the comments in respect of the State of Israel attributed to President Ahmadinejad of Iran.

Leaders for a Leaderless World

Now the euro crisis is forcing EU leaders to address institutional changes namely the creation of banking, fiscal, and political union that they have long deferred.

The moment is ripe for Europe s political leaders to define what the EU s role must be, and why.

Statements by new EU members leaders at the summit indicated that they were aware of such a possibility.

Mauritania s leaders quit ECOWAS, the West African regional grouping, to join the union formed by the North African countries.

The EU s leaders recently stated their intention to revisit the Maastricht structure, which in principle is a good idea.

While EU leaders believe that peace and stability is built through interdependence, Russia s leaders are intent on creating a situation in which the EU needs Russia more than Russia needs the EU, particularly in the energy sector.

The European financial crisis is really a political crisis, because EU leaders are unable to decide on the necessary measures.

PARIS European Union leaders concluded 2012 with a landmark agreement that places all eurozone banks under a single supervisor.

One of the al Ittihad leaders, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, is responsible for overseeing all military training that takes place in these camps.

In other words, EU leaders began to complicate fiscal governance, ultimately creating an inefficient, inescapable labyrinth of regulation and bureaucracy.

All of these abuses are raised repeatedly at EU China summits, to little or no avail.

While all EU leaders have advocated using the budget to stimulate economic growth, little action is being taken.

EU leaders lament Ukraine s political divisions and slow pace of reform, and the country s leaders need to address these criticisms. But lack of progress also reflects the EU s failure to embrace Ukraine.

To avoid this outcome, Europe s leaders must begin designing and implementing strategies aimed at bringing the eurozone closer to a fiscal union.

But, once again, EU leaders responded by concluding the opposite the Lisbon Agenda s failure was interpreted as justifying still more harmonization and centralization of national policies.

The emerging European energy union, which the Council has endorsed, could be the ideal vehicle to facilitate this shift. The problem is that EU leaders have yet to define a compelling and effective strategy for building it.

I have the honour to convey to you the attached statement on Iran issued today by the United Kingdom Presidency on behalf of European Union leaders meeting in Hampton Court, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (see annex).

But Ukraine is also a European country, which gives it the right to apply for EU membership an aspiration voiced by Ukraine s leaders.

The EU s leaders have asked Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, to develop, in close collaboration with the presidents of the European Commission, the Eurogroup, and the European Central Bank, a road map to achieve a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union.

Russian (or Soviet) leaders opt for perestroika or a thaw only when forced to do so by dire conditions that threaten the regime s survival.

Leaders and Managers

But the EU has so far failed to prepare the Western Balkans for accession, in line with its leaders promise at their Thessaloniki summit in 2003 to admit the Western Balkan states when they meet the Union s standards.

To strengthen the euro and establish the foundations for a political union, European leaders should undertake a rapid and explicit process of linguistic integration.

Faced with a country whose leader is bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, the EU s leaders are simply dithering, fearing that the fire next door in Iraq could somehow spread.

Yet China, too, is wary of Putin, and has been sending warm signals to leaders of former Soviet republics, such as Ukraine s Yuliya Tymoshenko.

The challenge now for EU leaders is not to repackage old policies, but to express a collective vision and will to act together.

EU leaders can build an economy that is less dependent on imported energy through increased efficiency and greater reliance on domestically produced clean energy.

If EU leaders hesitate to take action on climate change, they will be sabotaging their own economy s prospects for sustainable recovery.