As the big three increasingly pursue their own narrowly defined national interests, however, other EU member states are emerging as leaders in key foreign policy fields.

Romania welcomes the recent confirmation of such a policy by the EU Council.

It was therefore highly unlikely that any areas of conflict would arise between the EU and its member States.

The greatest success of Europe s external policy has been EU enlargement.

This means that EU policy must be tailor made for individual countries.

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

It agreed with the Advisory Committee that, in certain areas, further savings might be realized.

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.

It gave the US a stick with which to tear down the EU s common agricultural policy.

Nor does the Treaty do enough to strengthen coordination of Europe s economic and budgetary policies.

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

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

His delegation had also sought a clarification as to whether the sharing of competences took the form of an absolute transfer of competence to the European Union in particular areas, with States retaining competence over other areas, or whether competence over certain areas was shared by the Union and its member States.

The European Union s policy in the Middle East is the litmus test of its common foreign and security policy. Many Europeans share this belief, but, as the EU considers entering the fray of Middle East peace talks, it must respond to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon s jibe that in the region you are payers, not players.

MANNHEIM The European Union s policy of saving the euro at all costs is enough to guarantee the euro s survival.

How much worse can things get before the EU abandons its counter productive policy?

The last attempt to create an EU US free trade zone, under President Bill Clinton, failed because of the EU s rigid, antiquated agricultural policy.

Nonetheless, the EU s foreign policy performance in 2012 was positive overall.

The EU accession process has also underpinned a shift in Turkish policy on Iraq.

(b) Uptake of the unique opportunities of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform and rapidly emerging EU biofuel markets

LONDON The selection of Herman van Rompuy as President of the European Union s Council of Ministers, and of Lady Catherine Ashton as the EU s foreign policy chief, surely underlines the extent to which member states are in the driver s seat in the EU.

The jewel in its crown is to be the appointment for a 30 month term of a full time president of the European Council, which groups the heads of EU member governments, along with a foreign policy chief who will be backed by an embryonic EU diplomatic service.

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

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

But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.

On the basis of that policy, the EU was pleased to support the re election of Mr. Shauket Fakie of the Republic of South Africa.

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.

In that context, it is worth noting the European Union's support for the Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the framework of the European Security and Defence Policy.

They are, as listed in Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the Court of Auditors.

Significant progress has been achieved in several areas of our bilateral cooperation, and Turkey's European Union perspective will further broaden the scope of our relations.

Germany, in foreign policy as well as in economics, can exert decisive leadership in the EU when it wants to.

Other EU states need to follow their example in order to make European foreign policy truly effective and influential.

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This was a triumph for the EU s foreign policy chief, High Representative Baroness Catherine Ashton, who secured the backing of EU member states (even from the five that do not recognize Kosovo s independence), the United States, and both Serbia and Kosovo.

The directive did not provide for any definition of disability, despite discourse in policy documents previously in the EU about endorsing the social model of disability.

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Undaunted by the policy s utterly feeble impact on global warming, politicians have declared that the policy will at least enhance the EU s energy security.

Since 1995 Sweden has been a member of the European Union, and as a consequence of a new world security situation the country's foreign policy doctrine has been partly modified, with Sweden playing a more active role in European security co operation.

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