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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.
30.06.2009 @ 16:02 CET
Former Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhoftstadt, has been unanimously elected as the new leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the third largest political party within the European parliament.
30.06.2009 @ 10:48 CET
Germany's highest court on Tuesday ruled that the EU's new treaty is compatible with German law, so long as the role of the national parliament is strengthened. The ratification process has been suspended until the new provisions are adopted, with an extraordinary parliament session planned for 26 August to discuss a draft law.
24.06.2009 @ 09:23 CET
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has pledged to be the last in the EU to sign the Lisbon Treaty, raising fears about the future of the document which has been several painful years in the making.
23.06.2009 @ 17:24 CET
EU's planned foreign service should be established gradually, not in a 'Big Bang', if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified after a second Irish referendum, the bloc's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday.
29.06.2009 @ 08:56 CET
Germany's top court will on Tuesday decide whether the EU's new treaty is compatible with the country's constitution in a judgement that is keenly awaited throughout the rest of the bloc.
18.06.2009 @ 07:58 CET
EU leaders will gather in Brussels on Thursday and Friday for a summit at which they hope to pave the way for Irish voters to say yes to the bloc's new set of institutional rules as well as nominate the next president of the European Commission. They will also discuss the bloc's strategy for the December international climate talks as well as tackling the economic crisis.
16.06.2009 @ 17:41 CET
Any attempt by EU leaders this week to formally nominate Jose Manuel Barroso for a second term as European Commission will come a cropper in the European Parliament on procedural grounds, a senior MEP warned on Tuesday.
19.06.2009 @ 16:43 CET
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has hailed the result of an EU leaders summit in Brussels, saying the agreement on the text designed to make the Lisbon Treaty more palatable to the Irish people is of "huge significance." He indicated that a second referendum on the document will be held at the beginning of October.
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11.06.2009 @ 09:27 CET
EU leaders meeting for a summit in Brussels next week must appoint a new head of the European Commission and not delay the decision, said the current head of the institution and only candidate for the job, Jose Manuel Barroso.
09.06.2009 @ 17:27 CET
Sweden has said it needs Jose Manuel Barroso to be given full and clear backing for a second term as commission president or its term as EU presidency country, beginning in July, will be weakened.
16.06.2009 @ 06:33 CET
EU foreign ministers discussed the legal guarantees being sought by the Irish government on the Lisbon Treaty on Monday but disagreement remains over how they will be presented.
08.06.2009 @ 17:30 CET
With barely a day up since the finish of the EU elections, the members of the newly elected parliament are taking stock and sounding out future political allegiances.
04.06.2009 @ 17:32 CET
Ireland is busy working on the wording to make the Lisbon Treaty more palatable to Irish voters, but its EU partners have raised concerns about the scope of the texts and some impatience at the pace of the work.
The Irish government can claim a notable diplomatic victory at this week's European summit. Provided the Lisbon Treaty i...
A deal to hold a second referendum in Ireland seems struck behind the scenes ahead of today's EU summit in Brussels. But...
The European Parliament's actions in questioning the funding of the Libertas campaign are unseemly, writes Peter Sain le...
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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