Europe vote 'early 2006' - Straw
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Jack Straw says the UK is likely to hold a vote on the EU constitution early in 2006, as Tony Blair prepares to sign up to it.
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Jack Straw revealed an 18-month game plan to win a referendum on the European Union&#39;s first constitution yesterday with a vote scheduled for March or April 2006.
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Tony Blair has signed the new EU constitution as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw indicated any referendum on the treaty will not be held until 2006.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today signalled that the governmentâs promised referendum on the new European Constitution would not be held until early 2006.
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Britain expects the European Union to start membership talks with Turkey in January, when Luxembourg assumes the EU&#39;s rotating presidency, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.
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BERLIN, Dec 20 (IPS) - For the European Union, 2007 was a year rich in  events, but poor on results. Next year promises to be as  turbulent as this one, and probably as unremarkable in its  outcome.
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President Bush's search for better relations with Europe in his second term faces an early test next week with a visit by an old ally, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
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A solution to Kosovo's final status will be delayed until early spring, the European Union's enlargement chief was quoted as saying on Thursday, a day after Serbia set a crucial presidential election for January 20.
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LUXEMBOURG - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw yesterday welcomed a disarmament deal with radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, calling it a model for how violence-scarred Iraq could be stabilised before January elections.
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Jack Straw makes the "patriotic case" for the EU constitution as a bill on a referendum is published.
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BEIJING, Jan 21 (IPS) - The new Chinese leadership is set to get a major  boost to its legitimacy and military ambitions as British Foreign  Secretary Jack Straw confirms in Beijing that the European Union  is ready to lift its 15-year-old ban on arms sales to China.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell considers the main items on the EU's agenda for 2007.
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Tony Blair signed up for the new European constitution as it was announced that the British public will vote on its ratification in the spring of 2006.
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Tony Blair has given himself until the spring of 2006 to win round a sceptical British public to a new European constitution, which was signed amid pomp
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French President Jacques Chirac said Friday that France would vote on the European Union's first constitution "before the summer". "In 2005, you will have the future of Europe in your hands," Chirac said in a ...
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has denied reports that his foreign minister, Jack Straw, had warned him a year before the US-led invasion of Iraq that a war could push the country into chaos.
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ANKARA, Dec 20  - Membership talks between Turkey and the European Union are expected effectively to begin early in 2006 and not on October 3 next year as announced Friday after the EU summit in Brussels, a Turkish official said Monday.