Brussels seeking to soften rules of European Stability Pact
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The EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Joaquin Almunia, is seeking greater flexibility in the application of Europe's strict budget rules for countries with big public deficits, it was reported.
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The European Union is seeking new agreements with the US to slow climate change apart from the Kyoto Protocol that President George W. Bush withdrew from.
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The European Union&#39;s new executive chief has been forced to back down over his team of commissioners amid opposition in the European Parliament.
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If there is one thing EU finance ministers agree on, it is that heads of government should not take away their lead in revamping the discredited five-year-old stability and growth pact.
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European Union leaders struggled to narrow their differences on Thursday on a reform treaty for the 27-nation bloc and said it was too soon to tell whether they could reach a deal at a two-day summit.
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The European Union launched talks Monday to finalise a treaty of badly-needed reforms, amid concerns that Poland might open a political can of worms by demanding major changes.
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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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Threat to imperial measures to be lifted after European commission climbdown.
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EU leaders say they should turn to new priorities now that they have agreed on institutional reforms.
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The chancellor, Gordon Brown, today urged the European commission to clamp down on EU states that bend the rules on the allocation of government contracts.
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The European commission expects the EU&#39;s 25 member governments to agree on a significant loosening of the controversial stability and growth pact by spring to kickstart faltering economic growth and create more jobs in the eurozone.
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The European Union is considering a shift in policy toward Cuba that would get it back on speaking terms with President Fidel Castro's government, diplomats said.
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PARIS Hopes for a quick resolution to the crisis in the European Union receded Thursday as the incoming commission president, JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, acknowledged that he would have to make several changes to his team before seeking the blessing of
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European Union officials this week will aim to reduce corporate influence and make polluting more expensive.
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Gordon Brown has struck a deal to derail Brussels plans for a rapid expansion in the EU&#39;s budget, wresting back control for the finance ministers of member states.
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By Stephen Castle in Brussels and Andrew Buncombe in Washington. Moves to improve the EU&#39;s fractious and often testy relations with Washington were undermined yesterday by a fresh Anglo-French clash over Iraq
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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.