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eu reform treaty Times of Malta EU urged government to speed up health reform for budget reasons ... Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta The EU report was entitled: Report from the Commission - Malta - report prepared in accordance with Article 104 (3) of the Treaty. ... See all stories on this topic BRUSSELS 18-29 Jun 2009 EU leaders meet for last summit of ... NewsAhead Agency - Holladay,UT,USA It will be the last opportunity for Prague to try to steer EU policy. Czech President Vaclav Klaus is an outspoken critic of the Lisbon reform treaty and ... See all stories on this topic BBC News Final push for European elections BBC News - UK Plaid Cymru called for a vote for a "step change" in Welsh politics and Conservatives promoted their promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. ... See all stories on this topic Eurosceptics seek EU power in election EUbusiness (press release) - Richmond,England,UK ... and has inspired three parties to enter the campaign in the Czech Republic to decry the EU's proposed Lisbon reform treaty and its growing powers. ... See all stories on this topic guardian.co.uk Nancy Sutley: Obama to stake political prestige on passing US ... guardian.co.uk - UK However, the US matches the longer-term EU target of 80% reductions by 2050. Obama, when running for president, supported a 2020 target of a 14% cut in ... See all stories on this topic Grahnlaw: European Union: What to do with Britain? By Grahnlaw a) frustrate the treaty reform process of the EU member states since 2000, leaving the European Union with the unsatisfactory Treaty of Nice (minus further UK repatriation of common policies), in case the Lisbon Treaty has not entered ... Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/ Steinmeier in Prague: EU helped protect member states from crisis ... They said the EP polls can guarantee high-quality representatives in the EU institutions. Steinmeier also supported the ratification of the Lisbon treaty to reform the EU institutions. After the EU enlargement to 27 member states, ... Prague Monitor - http://praguemonitor.com/rss/*/feed Thinking Made Easy: THE UK AND THE EU By Joan Idanan European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community (EC), an economic and political confederation of European nations, ... A senior French official also argued that Britain's historical disadvantage due to heavy EU spending on agriculture would decrease over time, since the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) would reduce spending on agriculture to just 35% of the ... Thinking Made Easy - http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/ IEA Blog » Blog Archive » EU centralisation threatens freedom and ... By Richard Wellings The Treaty of Lisbon does not remedy these defects. On the contrary, by lowering the majority requirements in the Council of Ministers and by extending the general empowering clause beyond recognition, it will reinforce the centralising dynamic more than any previous treaty amendment has done. Many regulations which have been vetoed by blocking minorities in the past will now go through. Reform is therefore urgently needed. The Council and the national parliaments should ... IEA Blog - http://blog.iea.org.uk/ EU Referendum: Well, that's the BBC for you By Helen If there isn't an early election, if the Irish vote 'yes' in a second referendum, if the Poles decide to ratify this treaty, if the Czechs decide to ratify this treaty. That is four 'ifs'. I would rather than focusing on all those 'ifs' ... And one of the reasons, in fact the main reason for leaving the EPP and forming this new group, is that it will bring to European politics I centre-right group of parties that are committed to reform in Europe and change in Europe. ... EU Referendum - http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/ European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. By European Tribune I don't see why one can't quantify the proportion of laws and regulations on the books (and the number of laws enacted each year) in response to EU directives; you'd just need to standardize whether and how to count enabling acts. ... European Tribune - http://www.eurotrib.com/ EU blueprint 'does not go far enough' | The Trade News By BenDyson While he acknowledges that the committees' new powers could harmonise the implementation and monitoring of pan-European directives such as MiFID, he adds, “It is too gradual. The events of the past few months ... The clearing and settlement of pan-European equity trading could also benefit from the proposed regulatory framework. Regulation of clearing houses at the EU level, as envisaged under the current proposals, could ease interoperability. The Commission is likely to ... The Trade News - Working for... - http://www.thetradenews.com/ Brussels scarred by port services directive defeat - Lloydslist.com By Justin Stares, Brussels Voting down the draft law for a second time — unheard of in the parliament's history — was a “big mistake”, as it has left the European Union without the legal tools to tackle today's market distortions. ... All headlines from www.lloydslist.com - http://www.lloydslist.com/blog/?src=rss