The EU Council s common position on arms exports is legally binding on all EU states.

And it was an advantage in the UN negotiations to have a common Europeans position and to have spoken with a single voice.

On 25 April this year, the EU updated its common position.

We affirm and declare our support to ensure shared and equal benefits that stem from our common European heritage which has its roots in European civilization and prosperity.

The European Union's commitment to Afghanistan is outlined in the European Union Afghanistan Joint Declaration signed in Strasbourg on 16 November.

There are plenty of areas in which common action at the EU level is both appropriate and efficient.

It must never be forgotten that the EU is a project designed for mutual economic progress.

In 2007, in order to adopt the new common map like the rest of the Eurozone countries, Finland changed the common side of its coins.

The Declaration of the European Union Latin America Interparliamentary Conference, Puebla, March 2004 and

Joint statement on Ethiopia issued on 13 July 2005 by the European Union and the United States of America

Drafted the Italian proposal for the EU Common Position on the ICC that consequently led to its adoption before the EU Council in July 2001

In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke of a Common European House and repudiated the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine.

Likewise, common European banking supervision will not suffice to prevent the continuing exodus of funds from the afflicted countries.

Reaffirming its determination to continue the consultation and exchange of views with the European Union on issues of common interest

The EU's unique, joint civilian military approach must be further developed to make us yet more flexible.

10 See Council of European Union, EU Joint Action 2002 589 CFSP of 12 July 2002 annual report of the Council to the European Parliament on the main aspects and basic choices of CFSP, 15 April 2005.

Implementation of the common EU position on arms exports has led to more exchanges of information, greater transparency, and closer consultation.

The EU's joint civilian military approach makes us flexible and able to offer tailor made solutions to complex problems.

European Union. The European Union adopted the sanctions imposed by Security Council resolution 1390 (2002) through a common position of the Council of the European Union dated 27 May 2002 (2002 402 CFSP), amended by common position 2003 140 CFSP.

In this context, European Union Council Common Position 2004 852 CFSP of 13 December 2004 and Council Regulation (EC) No. 174 2005 of 31 January 2005.

Like the NATO common fund, EU contributions are largely based on GDP.

The combined European Union effort has gained momentum as it has synergized the military, police and economic lines of operation, including by conducting a series of well coordinated operations.

At present, plans are being formulated with the Luxembourg presidency of the European Union Council to jointly organize journalist tours to European Union and United Nations projects in developing countries.

The EU and US must work together to make Europe and America safe. By closing Guantánamo and addressing the underlying policy issues, the US is creating a much stronger foundation for close EU US cooperation in counter terrorism and the fight against international crime, one based on the rule of law and human rights.

At the same time, the US and the EU, acting together, must get serious in Bosnia and Kosovo.

The Joint Declaration of Intentions on development and the strengthening of relations with the countries of Latin America, adopted in 1985 on the occasion of the accession by Spain and Portugal to the European Union

On 11 December 2003, the Joint Conciliation Committee of the European Parliament and the Council approved the joint text of the framework regulation for the creation of the Single European Sky.

Specific initiatives will encompass the European Union Water Initiative, including WHO UNICEF joint monitoring children and AIDS collaboration on commodity issues and support for initiatives on children by the European Union Presidency

For example, French President Nicolas Sarkozy preempted a common European position on the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN in September.

Of course, the crisis does highlight the need to strengthen the EU s institutions and instruments for common action and coordination.

In these times, difficult and unpredictable but full of hope, the world needs Turkey and the EU to work together.

I have the honour to draw your attention to the joint statement on Ethiopia issued on 13 July 2005 by the European Union and the United States of America (see annex).

So it is past time that the European Union stopped treating energy as a bilateral issue, with some of the larger member states trying to protect their own narrow interests at the expense of the common European good.

The Council of the European Union adopted Common Position 2004 852 CFSP of 13 December 2004 concerning restrictive measures against Côte d'Ivoire (published in the Official Journal of the European Union of 15 December 2004).

This would strengthen the EU Council s common position, which already defines general rules for the control of exports of military technology and equipment.

Common European direction cannot emerge from the calculus of national interests by governments and parliaments that are accountable only to national voters.

We are also committed to implementing the EU's Common Position on the universalization and reinforcement of multilateral agreements in the field of weapons of mass destruction and means of delivery.

My first mission was as a young assistant to Torvald Stoltenberg and Lord Owen during the joint United Nations European Union effort in 1994 in the Balkans, namely in Bosnia.

The European Union believed that both the CCA and the UNDAF should adapt their cycles to the existing national planning cycle.

Additionally, the Control Centre for Special Infections participated, as a partner, in the European Inter State Programme Mediterranean Network for Women who face HIV Infection , which was financed by the Ε.U.

The capital would be repaid in annual installments as the funds become available through the EU budget, while the national co financing rate would apply to interest payments.

The two world wars and the Cold War shaped European integration as a project of peace, defense of the West s fundamental values, and common economic prosperity.

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.

In 2004, a Joint Nordic Council of Ministers project on gender sensitive budgeting was launched and the Council of Europe has organized several activities on the same subject.

Finland's participation in the ESA European Union joint Galileo programme is described in document A AC.105 816 Add.1 of 23 January 2004.