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An internal document circulated by Slovenia, the current
holder of the EU presidency, sets out 33 areas that need to be examined this
year, by taking into account ''the legitimate concerns of the institutions and
member states'', if the treaty is to
come into force on 1 January 2009 as planned.
It notes that EU...
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On Tuesday, 22 January 2008 the Delegation of the European
Commission to Croatia and the Central State Office for Administration will
present the results of the CARDS 2003 Project "Support to Public
Administration and Civil Service Reform", financed by the EU with an amount of
1.7 milion euros. The aim of the project was...
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"I think the eurogroup works very well. If we create
too many structures and committees, we run the risk of a split between the
different levels," German chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists on Tuesday (15 January) in Berlin, rejecting the idea of extra eurozone summits
for EU leaders as suggested by French president...
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Speaking to MEPs in Strasbourg on Wednesday (15 January), exactly
a week before the commission is due to unveil a raft of legislative proposals
detailing how to each member state is to contribute to ambitious green targets
by 2020, commission president Jose Manuel Barroso indicated that the European Commission will not bow to...
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Speaking
on Wednesday (16 January) before MEPs about his country's plans for the six
month presidency, Slovene Prime Minister Janez Jansa agreed that EU relations
with Mediterranean states should be strengthened.
But,
like Germany, who has expressed concern at the French plan for setting up a
Mediterranean Union connecting countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, with
Turkey as...
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The Slovenian
Presidency of the EU and the Committee of the Regions will host the
first conference of experts on the European Grouping of Territorial
Cooperation (EGTC) at Brdo Congress Centre (Slovenia) on 17 January.
Organised
at the invitation of Slovenia's Government Office for Local
Self-Government and Regional Policy, the meeting aims to build
political support for,...
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