Luxembourg promises EU budget compromise
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BRUSSELS: Luxembourg vowed yesterday to work to secure a compromise deal over the European Union's contested long-term budget during the country's presidency of the 25-nation bloc in the first half of 2005.
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France will meet its European budget commitments in 2005, bringing its deficit under the 3 percent of the EU limit for the first time in four years, President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday.
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French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils a budget promising to bring the deficit under control.
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EU ministers agree a draft deal on tearing down barriers to cross-border provision of services.
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A POLITICAL compromise to save the job of the new European Commissioner who thinks homosexuality is a sin was put to Euro MPs in Brussels yesterday.
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EU finance ministers gather in the Netherlands Friday for informal talks likely dominated by efforts to agree on reforms to the long-strained budget rules underpinning the euro.
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Thailand and the European Union on Thursday reached a compromise over an EU proposal to send election observers for the kingdom&#39;s post-coup polls in December.
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is to present his five-year plan to the EU Parliament.
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LUXEMBOURG -- EU governments agreed to cut the cost of using mobile phones abroad Thursday, paving the way for a cap on roaming fees later this summer.
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EU lawmakers endorsed a deal Wednesday to cap mobile phone roaming fees in the 27-nation bloc
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday her conservative Christian Democrats and their Social Democrat coalition partners had agreed a compromise on health care reform regarded as vital for her government's ...Comment
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French Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy is to reveal his budget for next year on Wednesday.
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The European Commission on Friday suggested ways of revamping the EU&#39;s Stability and Growth Pact and said the proposed changes would restore the credibility of its much-flouted budget discipline rules.
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European Parliament politicians vowed to support Jose Manuel Barroso&#39;s new European Commission cabinet, after he reshuffled his team.
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With half the European Union countries exceeding public deficit limits this year, the EU&#39;s head office bowed to reality Friday and proposed to be more flexible in how it enforces the budget rules underpinning the euro.
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European Union finance ministers approved a French plan to cut its budget deficit below a 3 percent ceiling.
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A political compromise to save the job of the new European Commissioner who thinks homosexuality is a sin was put to Euro MPs in Brussels today.