23.04.2008 - 09:29 CET
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has decided that Italy's new commissioner should take over the transport portfolio rather than keep the justice and home affairs job. Italy's outgoing leader Romano Prodi has criticised the move.
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21.04.2008 - 09:30 CET
UK prime minister Gordon Brown has agreed to a secret deal with Germany and France which effectively rules out Tony Blair as a new EU president but the British ex-leader is also interested in the new role of Europe's foreign chief, a UK daily is reporting.
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17.03.2008 - 09:26 CET
The Polish opposition, led by former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has threatened not to approve the EU's Lisbon Treaty in the country's parliament unless the ratification bill contains legal guarantees respecting Poland's sovereignty and its constitution as the highest law in the country, out of worries about gay marriage "being imposed" on the country.
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05.03.2008 - 09:30 CET
When the European Parliament decided by a large majority not to respect the outcome of the upcoming Irish referendum on the EU treaty, it did much damage to European democracy, argues Thomas Rupp.
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29.02.2008 - 07:06 CET
The European Parliament should have the courage to publish its controversial audit report, writes Peter Sain ley Berry. Not doing so damages both its political and moral authority.
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14.12.2007 - 14:58 CET
The European Union has agreed that its reflection group - a French-inspired idea to sketch the best political recipe for how to deal with Europe's future challenges - will be chaired by Spain's former prime minister Felipe Gonzalez.
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05.11.2007 - 08:57 CET
A large majority of Irish people do not know whether they will vote yes or no to the new EU treaty which is expected to be put to a referendum in the country early next summer.
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01.11.2007 - 16:37 CET
Signing the Reform Treaty in Lisbon is simply not worth the carbon and European leaders should recognise this, writes Peter Sain ley Berry. Indeed they should be encouraged to amend the Treaty to allow the European Parliament to give up its Strasbourg seat and so end the greatest travelling circus of them all.
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22.10.2007 - 11:40 CET
The new Lisbon Treaty is to be welcomed as document that will deliver a more focused and efficient EU, much-need institutional reform and extra democratic scrutiny, says Richard Corbett, British Labour MEP.
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