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03.07.2009 @ 16:14 CET
Member states on Friday admitted they did not have enough support for a mid-July European Parliament vote on Jose Manuel Barroso's bid to become European Commission president for a second time.
03.07.2009 @ 09:27 CET
As fresh statistics in both Europe and the US dash hopes for an early economic recovery, Brussels is proposing micro loans to small firms in a bid to help them keep local jobs.
03.07.2009 @ 17:38 CET
Turkey will host the signing of an inter-governmental agreement on the EU-backed Nabucco gas pipeline on 13 July, in a major breakthrough for the long-delayed project aimed at reducing Europe's gas reliance on Russia.
03.07.2009 @ 09:05 CET
Governments may not hinder citizens' rights to move freely in the European Union when investigating possible fake marriages between EU and non-EU citizens, new guidelines published by the European Commission on Thursday say.
02.07.2009 @ 17:14 CET
With parliament looking increasingly likely to postpone a July vote on the nomination of the next commission president, there is a risk of having a lameduck executive for a further three to four months. New names are already been floated for the job including the Dutch and Luxembourg leaders.
03.07.2009 @ 09:18 CET
The European commission announced on Thursday its intention to release the second tranche of an EU loan agreed with Latvia last year, while at the same time calling on the small Baltic state to put its public finances in order by 2012.
01.07.2009 @ 17:36 CET
The Liberal group has ruled out a right-wing alliance in the European Parliament which could have fundamentally shaken up the way the EU assembly does its business, but instead says it is happy to continue with a 'grand coalition' of left and right. The group is also continuing to play poker on the issue of the next president of the European Commission.
01.07.2009 @ 17:45 CET
The Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group – the new eurosceptic party formerly known as the Independence-Democracy Group - announced its party name and political programme on Wednesday.
02.07.2009 @ 09:30 CET
Iran says Europe is no longer qualified to hold nuclear talks due to its meddling with the post-election protests in the country, with Sweden, as the new EU presidency, calling up officials from the 27-member bloc to discuss the next diplomatic move.
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In a surprise move, Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader, whose government started accession negotiations with the EU in 2005 and who led the country into Nato earlier this year, presented his resignation on Wednesday. Mr Sanader also said he was withdrawing from politics for good.
01.07.2009 @ 08:51 CET
Sweden takes over at the helm of the EU on Wednesday for a six-month presidency that will for the most part be held hostage by the bloc's complicated institutional problems as well as being overshadowed by the global economic crisis.
02.07.2009 @ 09:22 CET
As members of the European commission gathered in Stockholm to mark the start of the Swedish presidency on Wednesday, the country's financial markets minister warned against overregulation of the hedge fund and private equity sectors.
01.07.2009 @ 12:20 CET
A code of conduct coming into force on Wednesday in 25 EU member states and Norway is to bring more transparency in defence procurement contracts. But experts question its effectiveness as long as it is a non-binding agreement.
01.07.2009 @ 09:28 CET
German MPs are under pressure to get an accompanying law strengthening the role of both houses of parliament in EU decision-making wrapped up before general elections at the end of September.
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03.07.2009 @ 21:50 CET
Sweden is considering holding an informal summit in September to deal with the financial crisis and climate change - two of the biggest issues on its EU presidency agenda. French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly supports the idea, says a spokesperson for Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt.
03.07.2009 @ 14:56 CET
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Friday said that a European Parliament vote on Jose Manuel Barroso's bid to become European Commission president for a second time will not take place mid-July. Stockholm is now pushing to have it take place by 15 September.
03.07.2009 @ 13:58 CET
Turnout in Bulgaria's legislative elections on Sunday will reach 55 to 60%, according to polling agency Gallup. It says Sofia mayor Borisov's centre-right Gerb party will get up to 30% of the votes, followed by the ruling Socialists (19 - 23%) and the Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (15%).
03.07.2009 @ 13:57 CET
The resignation of Croat PM Sanader was his political "rebellion" against Slovenia's blocking of Croatia's EU talks, MP Andrija Hebrang from Mr Sanader's conservative HDZ party said, reports Hina. Meanwhile, Slovenia said it hopes the new Croat government will resume talks on their border dispute.
03.07.2009 @ 09:35 CET
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has attacked a German court decision to allow the Lisbon treaty after a tweak to German national law. "I do not believe that it is possible to annul the known defects of the Lisbon Treaty by an accompanying law," he wrote in the Mlada Fronta Dnes newspaper.
03.07.2009 @ 09:31 CET
The four EU states which had full ambassador-level representation in Honduras - France, Germany, Italy and Spain - have recalled their envoys in protest at a recent coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the Swedish EU presidency said. Spain has led the EU's opposition to the coup.
03.07.2009 @ 08:32 CET
France has said that draft commission plans for hedge fund regulation are a step in the right direction but will need to be tightened up before they can be accepted. "I will not let this directive be adopted in this state," said the country's economy minister Christine Lagarde, reports Reuters.
03.07.2009 @ 08:30 CET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised countries that measures must be stepped up to end market cyclicality, reports the Wall Street Journal. Economic growth - when it returns - must be tempered she said, to prevent further cycles of boom and bust.
Moody's credit rating agency downgraded Ireland from its top rating on Thursday, following similar moves by other agencies earlier this year. Moody's cited the government's deteriorating public finances as the main reason, as an increasing share of tax revenues is used to service the country's debt.
03.07.2009 @ 08:29 CET
The European Central Bank piled further pressure on eurozone banks to increase lending on Thursday, indicating it may hold interest rates at the current record low of 1 percent for some time. ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet urged the banks to live “up to their responsibilities”.
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