EU leaders discuss bigger role in Iraq, better ties with Bush
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European Union leaders on Thursday considered taking on a bigger role in rebuilding Iraq and forging stronger ties with re-elected President Bush.
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BRUSSELS - European Union leaders achieved a facade of unity for long enough at summit talks last week to claim that Iraq was no longer cause for the unparalleled acrimony of recent times.
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1500CET--The Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi&#39;s participation in the EU Summit entered its second day which was dominated by the Iraq issue as the
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Europeans may bristle over President Bush's Iraq policy, yet he spent the week rolling out initiatives they can more easily embrace &#151; ones that address global warming, AIDS and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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BRUSSELS - US President George W Bush will visit Europe in February to hold talks with European leaders on ways to improve transatlantic relations following the Iraq war, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday.
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European Union leaders have offered &quot;strong support&quot; for Iraq&#39;s interim government, including more technical assistance and the possibility of a trade deal.
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Iraqi and European Union officials agreed Thursday to pursue closer energy ties, bringing the EU a step closer to turning Iraq into a major supplier and reducing its dependency on Russia.
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President Bush will meet French  President Jacques Chirac in Brussels in February as the two  governments try to embark on a new start in relations strained  by the Iraq war.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- US President George W. Bush is expected to meet with NATO and European Union leaders in February in an effort to mend trans-Atlantic relations that have been strained by the war in Iraq, officials say.
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TURKEY must do more to overcome popular hostility in the West, it was told yesterday, as Europeâs leaders met to take the historic decision to open talks on its membership of the European Union in October next year.
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WASHINGTON, Jun 4 (IPS) - An ever-deteriorating situation in Iraq, a hostile  Democratic Congress and a changing of the guard in some key  allies may all combine to bring about a more cooperative, and  perhaps more subdued, President George W. Bush at the summit of  the Group of Eight most industrialised nations.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Europe Tuesday to put aside differences over the Iraq war and open a new chapter in relations with the United States to help it spread democracy worldwide.
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European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels for two days of talks on issues including Iraq, asylum and economic reform. The summit, which will be attended by the 25 national leaders, also provides the first
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Outgoing Secretary of State Colin  Powell urged Europe on Friday to help heal rifts over Iraq with  the United States instead of relying on the Bush administration  to be the peacemaker.
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BRUSSELS -- The rift in US-European relations that opened over the war in Iraq has deepened in the last year, further evidence that the trans-Atlantic relationship is undergoing a fundamental change, according to a survey of Americans and Europeans to be published today.
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President Bush reaches out to allies this week for help in quelling violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a burst of diplomacy from a Baltic summit of NATO partners to Mideast talks with Iraq's prime minister.
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The European Union plans to open a mission in Iraq after the country&#39;s first free elections slated for January, to help train police, legal officials and administrators, EU foreign ministers said yesterday.