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With this timid choice of leaders, the EU may have the faces it deserves Timothy Garton Ash...is provided by Silvio Berlusconi, and that's opera bouffe. Most European citizens like what the EU gives them in terms of freedom of movement, prosperity, security, consumer choice. But they now increasingly take that for granted, even in... In this article: European Union, Baroness Ashton, Herman Van Rompuy, Europe, Gordon Brown, Climate change, and Steroid |
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Yahoo! News | 2 days ago
Berlusconi is named `Rockstar of the Year' (AP)
...of the Year' (AP) Berlusconi is named `Rockstar of the Year' Reuters - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrives at the EU council headquarters in Brussels ahead … ROME - He's Italian premier, media mogul and one of the country's...
In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Rome, Rolling Stone, EU, Roberto Saviano, Italy, Brussels, and Reuters
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BBC News | October 27, 2009
Sick Berlusconi to miss EU summit
...back on trial next month, accused of tax fraud Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has a bout of scarlet fever and will miss this week's EU summit in Brussels, his foreign minister says. The minister, Franco Frattini, said he would...
In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, EU, Tax, Franco Frattini, Tony Blair, Brussels, Rash, Scarlet fever, Italy, and UK
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The Times of India - World | 3 days ago
Italy's Berlo ends Belarus isolation with visit
...visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Minsk on 30 November," he said. In early November, the EU prolonged a freeze on restrictions against Belarus as an incentive for further reforms. The controls, including a visa ban against Lukashenko, were...
In this article: Belarus, Silvio Berlusconi, Alexander Lukashenko, Italy, EU, Minsk, Dmitry Medvedev, Reuters, World Trade Organisation, and Moscow
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Times Online | 5 days ago
Life through a lens: how politics became photogenic
...good-looking politicians. Mara Carfagna, a former Miss Italy contestant, is Equal Opportunities Minister while before the European elections 20 young female Italian "showgirls".were given a crash course in EU politics. After Berlusconi's wife,...
In this article: Caroline Flint, Rachida Dati, Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Spain, Madrid, Miss Italy, and Suicide
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AP Online | November 18, 2009
Dogfight ahead as EU leaders pick new top jobs
...Trichet ended up splitting the ECB chief's first term. And at a December 2003 summit, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi famously vetoed putting the EU food safety agency in Finland. "The Finns," he bristled, "don't even know what prosciutto...
In this article: Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Europe, Wim Duisenberg, Brussels, Allegation, Iraq War, and Jean-Claude Trichet
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | October 27, 2009
Silvio Berlusconi has scarlet fever
...has scarlet fever Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has contracted scarlet fever and will not be able to attend this week's European Union summit in Brussels, Italy's foreign minister said on Tuesday. Published: 6:39PM GMT...
In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Scarlet fever, Franco Frattini, Brussels, Climate change, Rash, Italy, and Luxembourg
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Berlusconi has scarlet fever, to miss summit: minister (AFP)
...… 27 mins ago LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has contracted scarlet fever and will not be able to attend this week's European Union summit in Brussels, Italy's foreign minister said Tuesday. "As you know,...
In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Scarlet fever, Agence France Presse, Brussels, All rights reserved, Climate change, Rash, and Franco Frattini
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Poland joins growing list of countries opposing Tony Blair's bid to be EU president
...because of Britain's absence from the single currency. Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, is the only EU leader to have unambiguously backed the former Labour leader. In his interview, Mr Byrant said the time for arguing over...
In this article: Tony Blair, Chris Bryant, Poland, The Sunday Telegraph, Labour, Brussels, Silvio Berlusconi, and Felipe Gonzalez
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The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community. With almost 500 million citizens, the EU combined generates an estimated 30% share (US$18.4 trillion in 2008) of the nominal gross world product and about 22% of the PPP gross world product.
The EU has developed a single market through a standardised system of laws which apply in all member states, ensuring the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital. It maintains common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries and regional development. Sixteen member states have adopted a common currency, the euro, constituting the Eurozone. The EU has developed a limited role in foreign policy, having representation at the WTO, G8, G20 and at the UN. It enacts legislation in justice and home affairs, including the abolition of passport controls by an agreement between 25 member states which form the Schengen Area.
The EU originates from the European Coal and Steel Community formed among six countries in 1951 and the Treaty of Rome in 1957. Since then, the EU has evolved through a process of enlargement, while new policy areas have been added to the remit of its institutions.
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