Q&A: The Reform Treaty
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Key questions answered on the EU's planned Reform Treaty, and the intergovernmental conference that will negotiate it.
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US questions about how Japan and the European Union would retaliate against a law that has handed more than $750 million in customs duties to US companies stalled World Trade Organization approval of the sanctions today.
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Hopes grew for a breakthrough in negotiations for a new treaty to reform the European Union on Friday as Germany, France and Poland thrashed out a possible compromise involving the core problem of voting rights.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Alex Chadwick talks to NPR&#39;s Andrea Seabrook for an update on the intelligence reform bill currently under consideration in Congress.
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EU leaders have overcome Polish and Italian objections to the EU reform treaty, opening the way for an overall agreement, European officials said Thursday.
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LONDON - The government called Friday for the European Union to "move on" to real reform after agreeing a new treaty, but eurosceptics threatened to keep the wrangling going with fresh demands for a referendum.
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European Union leaders will sign the  'Treaty of Lisbon' on Thursday to modernize the bloc's  institutions and put behind them a difficult reform process  that has lasted nearly a decade.
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An agreement reached on Saturday by  congressional negotiators on post-Sept. 11 intelligence reforms  was thrown into doubt by resistance by some Republicans in the  House of Representatives.
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WASHINGTON, January 27 (RIA Novosti s Arkady Orlov) - A draft resolution on support for democracy and reform in Ukraine has been submitted to the US Senate, RIA learned in the Senate Foreign Relations ...
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 11--It's perfect gridlock. Congress won't pass the immigration reform bill presented by George W. Bush, and the president vows to veto any of the versions Congress seems barely able to pass. So the stalemate continues.
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In May 2004 the European Union of 15 expanded to 25. It was the most ambitious and challenging enlargement of the European project since the signing of the Treaty of Rome 47 years ago.
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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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THE EU CONSTITUTION: The landmark document, achieved after 28 months of negotiation, aims to provide simpler voting rules to end gridlock in the European Union. It includes a charter of fundamental rights and ends national vetoes in 45 new policy areas.
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A House of Lords committee is to carry out an inquiry into the potential impact of the EU reform treaty, ahead of the forthcoming parliamentary debate on its ratification.
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The French parliament is to meet at Versailles to change the country's constitution to approve the EU reform treaty.
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There's    troubling news (FT subscription reqd, alternate copy here)  coming from Japan, where the Kyoto protocol on Greenhouse Emissions was born in 1997.  It seems that the Japanese aren't going to be able to meet their emissions targets specified in  the agreement in time.  Indeed, unless they buy a "large quantity" of emissions credits from other countries, they're not going to be able to meet their commitment at all.     Taishi Sugiyama, a climate expert at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, said emissions were rising 1 per cent a year due to a larger-than-expected impact from vehicles and households. That made it impossible to cut real domestic emissions by the required 16 per cent within a few years, he said.      Is this the last nail in the coffin for the Kyoto protocol?  And if so, which way do we go when it's buried?  Was GWB right to pull out, and where would John Kerry take us, in either case?
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EU leaders at a summit in Lisbon reach a deal on a landmark treaty to reform the 27-member bloc.