24.06.2004 - 09:26 CET
EU leaders are set to gather next Tuesday in Brussels to see if they can hammer out agreement on who should be the next Commission President.
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24.06.2004 - 09:31 CET
Agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler is preparing for a tough battle over reforms of the Union's controversial sugar subsidy regime.
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24.06.2004 - 10:22 CET
EU and Turkish politicians and experts seem increasingly prepared to admit that it will be impossible for Turkey to meet the EU's political criteria before the end of the year.
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24.06.2004 - 09:26 CET
Spain is hoping to be one of the first EU countries to ratify the EU Constitution adopted last week, after the Spanish Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced plans to hold a referendum on this matter as soon as possible.
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23.06.2004 - 18:07 CET
The EU's transport chief has said the failure to liberalise transatlantic air markets is benefiting US carriers.
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23.06.2004 - 09:57 CET
The Netherlands is likely to be among the first EU member states to hold a referendum on the Constitution - and is set to do so before the end of this year, during its own EU presidency.
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23.06.2004 - 09:45 CET
Europe should be driven by six big countries - France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy and Poland - according to French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy, rather than by the "Franco-German motor".
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23.06.2004 - 09:45 CET
The French opposition Socialist party are becoming increasingly split on their position on the new European Constitution after a leading member - former French prime minister Laurent Fabius - said he was "very reticent" on the issue.
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22.06.2004 - 08:37 CET
France could hold a referendum on the Constitution next spring, according to former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - bringing the total number of countries definitely having a poll on the treaty to at least ten.
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