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26.06.2009 @ 17:25 CET
This week, Sweden takes over the rotating EU presidency from the Czech Republic for six months. Meanwhile, the German Constitutional Court is to announce its verdict on whether the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with German law.
19.06.2009 @ 16:46 CET
The European Parliament is set to elect group leaders and formulate strategies for the approval of a new commission president in the week ahead.
03.07.2009 @ 17:37 CET
This week looks set to be dominated by a Group of Eight industrialised nations meeting (8-10 July) in L'Aquila, Italy, where the country's premier, Silvio Berlusconi, will be keen to use the event to shake off domestic revelations over paid escorts and raucous parties.
12.06.2009 @ 17:57 CET
Post-European elections bargaining will peak this week at an EU summit on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, when the bloc's leaders are set to decide the fate of Jose Manuel Barroso as commission president as well as agree on the legal guarantees enabling Ireland to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Nicolas Sarkozy is likely to keep the pressure on Jose Manuel Barroso for a second EU commission chief mandate (Photo: Council of the EU)
This week looks set to be dominated by a Group of Eight industrialised nations meeting (8-10 July) in L'Aquila, Italy, w...
Even if they lost the election, there is still a role for the Socialists in the European Parliament - that is the role o...
This week, Sweden takes over the rotating EU presidency from the Czech Republic for six months. Meanwhile, the German Co...
05.07.2009 @ 17:23 CET
Italian MEP Mario Mauro has pulled out of the race to become the next president of the EU parliament. The move leaves the way clear for Polish conservative deputy Jerzy Buzek to take up the post instead.
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.
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