Britain &#39;not playing games&#39; over red lines on EU treaty
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Britain is &quot;not playing games&quot; by insisting on its &quot;red lines&quot; at a crunch EU summit, Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s spokesman said Friday, reiterating that he is ready to block a deal if necessary.
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A mouse sneaked into an EU ministers&#39; lunch in Brussels on Monday, but Britain&#39;s top diplomat, embroiled in a row with Moscow over the killing of a Russian ex-spy, was at pains to insist it was no eavesdropping Russian mole.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed an accord on a new EU treaty early Friday, saying it was "time for Europe to move on," but eurosceptics demanding a referendum are unlikely to let go so easily.
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The revised EU treaty will have to be in Britain's national interests, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett says.
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The European Commission yesterday hit back at claims that British firms are being shut out of lucrative European public procurement contracts, saying the UK has itself failed to introduce laws guaranteeing fair play.
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The European Union yesterday refused a Franco-German request to lift its arms embargo on China amid fierce disagreements over the country&#39;s human rights record and military ambitions.
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Britain has switched sides and thrown its support behind a European Union plan to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo against China, a move that threatens to trigger a rift in Britain's "special relationship" with ...
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Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown could still hold a referendum on the EU treaty, the UK's Europe minister says.
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Tony Blair says he is making progress on meeting the UK's concerns about a new European Union treaty.
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The treaty agreed by EU member states is "quintessentially" in Britain's interests, Tony Blair says.
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Â· Portugal sees EU-African Union meeting as priority Â· Britain and most members fiercely opposed to move
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Britain stood firm Wednesday over the &quot;red lines&quot; it will defend at a crunch EU summit, as Prime Minister Tony Blair bids to go out on a high note in his international swansong.
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Gordon Brown rejects calls from two trade unions for a referendum on the new European Union treaty.
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Britain signaled it won't meet demands to drop the long-standing reduction in its annual financial contribution to the European Union as ministers met Monday for a new round of budget talks.
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Britain has won US agreement for an international peace conference on the Middle East in London early next year, the Daily Telegraph has reported, but an Israeli political source said the Jewish state opposed the idea.
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Gordon Brown says the EU reform treaty he will sign later "is in Britain's interest" as the Tories call him "gutless".
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Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski on Friday ruled out any &quot;horsetrading&quot; as Warsaw continued to threaten to sink efforts to draft a new governing treaty for the 27-nation European Union.