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...
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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.
Telegraph, Herman van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton: The EU's Perfect Couple of NobodiesWSJ, Belgian Premier van Rompuy Named First EU PresidentEnglish Aljazeera, Leaders meet to elect EU president The European Union (“EU”) elected its first EU President and EU Foreign Policy Chief this week under the new framework of the recently ratified Lisbon Treaty, a set of reforms to the EU’s internal functions that seek to strengthen and centralize...
06:51 19/11/2009 UNITED NATIONS, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - The European Union has decided to extend the mandate of its piracy mission off the coast of Somalia until the end of 2010, Sweden's UN envoy has said. The European Union — through the ...
Brussels - European Union leaders were set to hold an informal dinner summit in Brussels on Thursday evening to reach a final decision on who should take the top three positions created by the Lisbon Treaty, which takes effect December 1. The three ...
It’s been a week of Europe’s exhibition of support to the efforts of the Nigerian government in transparency, fight against corruption and state civility. The European Union (EU) has supported Nigeria’s peace process in the Niger Delta with a ...
Yesterday, the European Union decided who its leaders should be following implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. Note I say the European Union and not the people of Europe, because they have no role in the process. Europe has once again become an elitist/technocrat's dream, and there is plenty of evidence of the technocrats' delight in this press conference:
There is no better example of the elitism than the "High Representative...
You win some you lose some! The estimated number of Muslims [mostly Sunni] today in the Czech Republic is over 10,000. The number rose sharply during the 1990s and has remained stable since. Wiki There was some controversy over the expansion of the first ever Mosque in the Czech Rep. the Brno Mosque - around which the same questions about Islamisation are being asked. Listen here The Czech Senate on Thursday banned an appearance by the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders on its premises. Mr Wilders was going to screen his anti-Islamic film, Fitna, and address a conference held by Czech anti-Islamists and Euro-sceptics. ...
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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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On Nov ember 2, 2004, a fanatic Islamist shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh and then slit his throat and pinned his angry message to those who were regarded as anti-Muslim. Since that day, many Dutch politicians have regarded their nation as engaged in a war against Muslim terrorists. Geert Wilders, leader of the right-wing Party for Freedom(PVV) has become the symbol of hatred toward Muslims. Several months ago while attempting to enter the United Kingdom he was refused entry on grounds he was a ’serious threat” to harmony in British society. This month, he entered Great Britain and was warmly ...
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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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