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A community portal about European Union with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The European Union is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 independent, democratic member states. The European Union is the world's largest confederation of independent states, established under that name in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union. However, many aspects of the Union existed before that date through a series of predecessor relationships, dating back to 1951.
Interactive graphic on the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty as Czech President Vaclav Klaus becomes the the last EU leader to ratify the landmark document after it is ruled in line with the country's constitution.
An economically AND politically and militarily united European Union will in the course of time become the world's leading power - a development resisted in many quarters.Yesterday was therefore a great step forward in the right direction with the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon as the virtual Constitution of the EU.Matthias C. Kettemann, an Austrian LL.M. student at Harvard, writes in the Harvard Law Record in We, the People of Europe...
PRAGUE (AP) — A charter meant to transform Europe into a more unified and powerful global player passed its last major hurdle Tuesday and looks set to become law within weeks. Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who has been highly skeptical of ...
The European Union's last holdout signs the Lisbon Treaty to unify and streamline decision-making. The treaty also extends the president's term and increases the foreign policy chief's role.
With the reluctant approval by its 27th and final member, the European Union put eight years of wrangling behind it Tuesday and took a conclusive step toward turning...
Today the European Union Commission president José Manuel Barroso made an impassioned plea to Czech president Václav Klaus to sign the Lisbon treaty, as the commission's mandate is due to end on Sunday 31 October.However, The Czech Republic's Constitutional Court has adjourned until November 3 and will not rule on the challenge to the European Union's Lisbon Treaty before the next EU summit which starts this Thursday.In the mean time David...
Opposition leader David Cameron, tipped as the next prime minister, vowed Wednesday to take back powers from Europe as he confirmed his party would no longer hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The Conservative leader said he did not want a "massive Euro bust-up" but said that if he wins the next election due by June, he would seek to stop the "steady and unaccountable intrusion" of the European Union into British law. In a speech in London, Cameron explained that his party had no choice but to abandon a "cast-iron guarantee" to hold a national vote on the European Union's reform treaty ...
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EU leaders on Friday agreed that developing nations will need 100 billion euros per year by 2020 to tackle climate change, but failed to nail down its own share amid sharp east-west differences. "We have an agreement," said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, at the end of a two-day European Union summit in Brussels. "The EU now has a strong negotiating position" to take to Copenhagen for international climate talks starting on December 7. Calling for developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050, the European leaders nonetheless went into very little detail on how this could be done. "The ...
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Interesting - a Dutch government study finds Wliders' Freedom Party 'islamophobic' and that it 'is mobilising systematic hatred against the authorities'. ' The authorities' - the report's findings seems almost a direct challenge to Dutch democracy. Firstly I thought Wilders was being accused of being racist and hateful towards Muslims. Now that seems to have shifted to 'directing hatred towards the authorities' and this would be the Dutch 'elected' authorities. Now that the Freedom Party has an ex-Muslim representative - the racist charge has to be torn away. As for 'islamophobia' - you have sections of the followers of Islam saying - very vocally ...
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A European lawmaker whose anti-Islamic views once led British officials to ban him from visiting that country will address Temple University students on Tuesday, despite protests from campus organizations. Dutch politician Geert Wilders has outraged Muslims by comparing their holy book, the Quran, to Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and for his calls to end Muslim immigration to the Netherlands. Muslim students at Temple, a public university serving about 34,000 students, and their supporters plan to protest the evening event, which was organized by a student group called Purpose and is being funded by the California-based David Horowitz Freedom Center. "The Muslim population at Temple ...
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On 2 November 2004, almost 5 years ago today, Mohammed Bouyeri gunned down Dutch film director, writer and opinion maker Theo van Gogh in broad daylight. In the years leading up to his murder, Van Gogh had been a scathing critic of what he liked to refer to as "fascist" Islam. The debate on the influence of Islam on Dutch society has continued to rage ever since, with right-wing politician Geert Wilders now taking central stage. What role would Theo van Gogh have played in the current debate? And is his murder the reason that Geert Wilders has attracted such a following in the ...
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