Prescott in Council of Europe job
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Former deputy prime minister John Prescott is to become a British representative to the Council of Europe.
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The incoming European Commission president has proposed redefining the duties of controversial conservative justice commissioner Rocco Buttiglione.
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The dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing are expected to be on the agenda as the new commissioner of the European Trade Union, Peter Mandelson, and his counterpart from the United States, Robert Zoeller, started discussions Monday.
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Liverpool&#39;s plans to build a new 60,000-seater have been approved by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. The Premiership club received planning approval in July but needed Prescott to rubber stamp the project
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The incoming president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, is to meet party leaders in the European Parliament. This morning&#39;s meeting is a bid to avert a crisis over the nomination of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner.
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The new European Commissionpresident, Jos Manuel Barroso,has stressed the role of IT in making the 25-nation European Union more economically competitive.
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The European Union's new executive commission took office after a three-week delay facing yet another fierce row over one of its members.
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"We will respect the conclusions of the council of economic and finance ministers of the EU"  Russia has nominated Josef Tosovsky, a former Czech prime minister and head of that country's central bank, to head the International Monetary Fund, a move that puts the Kremlin and the European Union at odds. via The Jersey Journal
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BRUSSELS, Jul 10 (IPS) - The European Union's finance ministers have  decided that Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn should head the  International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite calls for the post to  be opened up to candidates from poor countries.
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The deputy prime minister, John Prescott, 69, has been taken to a high-dependency unit.
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Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will lead a delegation to a three-day Southern African Development Community-European Union (SADC-EU) ministerial conference at The Hague in the Netherlands.
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ROME - Foreign Minister Franco Frattini was today named Italy&#39;s next European commissioner following the withdrawal at the weekend of the initial candidate, Rocco Buttiglione.
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John Prescott says Alan Milburn's Cabinet role planning election strategy is a proper use of taxpayers' money.
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Dutch Foreign Minister and chairman of the council Bernard Bot, right, talks with Sweden&#39;s Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds during an EU foreign ministers council in Luxembourg, Monday, Oct. 11, 2004.
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Comment is free: Lance Price: John Prescott was Blair's ideal deputy - behind the old Labour image, his influence was negligible.
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Latvia's Deputy Ambassador to the European Union (EU), Eduards Stiprais will be the Latvian Ambassador to the EU, Saeima Foreign Affairs Commission Chairman Aleksandrs Kirsteins (People's Party) informed LETA.
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been diagnosed with pneumonia and has been moved to the high-dependency unit of the hospital where he is a patient, his office said Tuesday.