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Lisbon Treaty heralds trickier EU relations

What kind of wind will be blowing for Switzerland in Brussels? Swiss lawyer Jean Russotto, one of the leading experts in Brussels, says Swiss officials will face new EU players and working methods after the treaty comes into...

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Chinese premier congratulates Rompuy on election as full-time EU president

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday sent a message to Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to congratulate him on his election as full-time president of the European Union (EU). In the...

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Belgian ex-premier meets party chiefs as hunt begins for new PM (AFP)

AFP/File – Belgian ex-premier Wilfried Martens, pictured in June 2009, met party leaders Saturday as he began a … BRUSSELS (AFP) – The hunt began in earnest Saturday for a new Belgian prime minister after Herman Van Rompuy was...

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Kiev to host 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest Final on November 21, 2009

PanARMENIAN.Net/ On November 1, at 10:15 p.m. Yerevan time, 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest Final will be held. The morning of November 21 started with every participating country, planting their own tree in front of the...

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Clowns to the left - Jokers to the right -we're stuck in the middle with EU

The British people really do have " clowns to the left - jokers to the right", and we are stuck in the middle The treason continues unabated and in a brazen, public manner this has to stop but it will not do so of it's own...

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A pitiful exercise in Euro-minimalism

This was not Europe’s finest hour. After eight years of tortured labour, the mountain brought forth a mouse. Supporters of the European Union are dismayed, just as Eurosceptics are sneeringly exultant. Both camps should have...

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Turkey suspicious of new EU president

ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The choice of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as European Union president means Turkey is less likely to be accepted, a Turkish leader says. Suat Kiniklioglu, a leader in the governing...

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New EU chief good for ties with China

Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy attends a press conference after an EU summit at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, capital of Belgium, Nov. 19, 2009. Van Rompuy was elected the first full-time EU President...

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Despite the promises of independence, we've let ourselves become slaves

So much for the terms of the Lisbon Treaty on democratic checks and balances The Irish people have always had a disposition towards the condition of slavery as part of the government of its people. Despite the reverence for...

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Italian MP Denounces Bilderberg Influence During European Parliament Meeting

Mario Borghezio, an Italian member of European Parliament, dropped a bomb shell at the EU this week. In the video below, during a session of the parliament in Brussels Borghezio questioned the nominations of Bilderberg and...

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