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| | Council of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The President of the Council is a Minister of the state currently holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union; while the Secretary-General is the head of the Council Secretariat, chosen by the member states by unanimity. | | | The Council is assisted by Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER), which consists of the ambassadors or their deputies from the diplomatic representations of the Member States to the European Communities. | | | The Council has a President and a Secretary-General. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union
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| | European Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The role of President of the assembled European Council is performed by the head of government or head of state of the member state currently holding the Presidency of Council the European Union. | | | The inaugural Council was held in Dublin on 10-11 March, 1975 during Ireland's first Presidency of the Council of the European Union. | | | Under the provisions contained in the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, which has yet to be ratified by all member states, the rotating Presidency will be replaced by a permanent 2½-year chair, chosen by the heads of government themselves. |
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| | A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --E-- |
| | The European Council (not to be confused with the Council of Ministers) refers to the twice-yearly, or occasionally more frequent, summit meetings of EU heads of government (plus the directly elected presidents of France and Finland) and the president of the Commission. | | | The ECSC was the institutional model for the EEC, with a Council of Ministers representing the member states, a High Authority (equivalent to the Commission, with Monnet as its first president), an Assembly of national parliamentarians and a Court of Justice, all based in Luxembourg. | | | The decisions of the European Council are normally expressed as Conclusions or Declarations, having no status in law but creating the framework for Community legislation or common action among the member states. |
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| | European Council |
| | The European Council brings together the heads of state or government of the European Union and the president of the Commission. | | | The decisions taken at the European Council meetings are a major impetus in defining the general political guidelines of the European Union. | | | Prime Minister Balkenende about the start of negotiations with Turkey |
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http://www.eu2004.nl/?CMS_ITEM=0B09889824DD4FACA24E29765BB6A571X1X56258X28
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| | European Union Internet Resources |
| | European Body for the Enhancement of Judicial Co-operation | | | Database of questions posed by the European Parliament to the Council and the Commission, searchable by author, political group, etc. | | | Functions as a consultative body, and is asked for opinions on policies and legislation. |
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http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_eu.html
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| | EUROPA - The European Council: Presidency Conclusions |
| | The European Council gathers together the Heads of State or Government of the Member States of the European Union and the President of the Commission. | | | The European Council meets at least once every six months under the chairmanship of the Head of State or Government of the Member State which holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which rotates twice a year. | | | The Council of the European Union exercises the powers conferred on it by the Treaty subject to review by the European Court of Justice, and it adopts Community legal instruments. |
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http://europa.eu.int/european_council/index_en.htm
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| | Η Ελληνική Προεδρία της ΕΕ - eu2003.gr - Spring European Council 2003: Presidency Conclusions |
| | The European Council welcomes the signing, by President Arafat, of the legislation which creates the post of Prime Minister, as well as his decision to appoint Mahmoud Abbas to this post. | | | It strongly supported the determination of the new Prime Minister of Serbia, Zoran Zivkovic, to vigorously pursue the policies promoted by Zoran Djindjic, in particular the relentless fight against organised crime and corruption, the comprehensive democratisation of state structures and the full cooperation with ICTY. | | | As a first step, Member States must make a renewed effort by July 2003 to meet the Stockholm and Barcelona targets for transposing Internal Market legislation; sectoral Councils must report in the run up to the Spring European Council 2004 on progress made in transposing the measures they have adopted; |
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http://www.eu2003.gr/en/articles/2003/3/21/2316
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| | European Council on Refugees and Exiles |
| | In an open letter to the EU Presidency on cooperation with Libya, ECRE urges the Minister Delegate of Foreign Affairs and Immigration to remind Member States of their responsibility to ensure that their actions do not lead directly or indirectly to violations of refugees' rights. | | | ECRE calls upon Justice and Home Affairs ministers meeting on Monday 25 October to renew the commitments made at Tampere to put refugee protection at the heart of Europe's asylum and immigration policy. | | | Recommendations to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on 22-23 January 2004 on the "Safe Third Country" concept now available |
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| | The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk - Meeting of the European Council |
| | In accordance with the conclusions of the Nice European Council, the meeting will be held in Brussels, as part of the efforts for a gradual removal of the meetings of the European Council from the Member State holding the EU Presidency to Brussels. | | | On the basis of the common EU positions, the Danish EU Presidency will continue the accession negotiations, which, as concerns the ten first countries, the Presidency will endeavour to complete prior to the Copenhagen European Council in December. | | | The Danish EU Presidency - eu2002.dk - Meeting of the European Council |
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| | Europe Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ HigherPower.org |
| | Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey are crown dependencies affiliated with the United Kingdom. | | | Kosovo and Metohia (province of Serbia, administrated by UNMIK as per Security Council resolution 1244) | | | However, in many cases monoculture plantations of conifers have replaced the original mixed natural forest, because these grow quicker. |
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http://higherpower.org/encyclopedia/Europe
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| | The Presidency of the Council is held for six months by each member state on a rotational basis. | | | The ministers of the member states meet within the Council of the European Union. | | | The Council is the main decision-making body of the European Union. |
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http://ue.eu.int/cms3_fo/showPage.ASP?lang=en
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| | W.D.F European Council |
| | Executive Meetings shall be held as and when the elected Executive Council deem it necessary. | | | This draft Constitution has now been circulated to all European WDF Member Countries. | | | Any WDF European Member Country that is not a member of the EDC may attend the EDC General Meeting with the status of “Observer”. |
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http://www.welshdarts.org/w_d_f_european_council.htm
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| | European Council of Information Associations |
| | ECIA, The European Council of Information Associations, acts as the voice of the unified opinion and collective expertise of the key European information and documentation associations to major governmental and non-governmental bodies. | | | The Council promotes the exchange of views between the 15000 members of the associations and their 42000 contacts across the countries of the European Union, and encourages the development of a pan-european approach by the information and documentation professions of the needs of the information society. |
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http://www.aslib.co.uk/ecia
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| | European Studies Council |
| | He specializes in competition policy (i.e., anti-trust and merger policy) and represents the Commission in competition cases before the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance. | | | Furthermore, the council supplements the regular Yale curriculum with lectures and seminars by eminent European and American scholars, diplomats, and political officials. | | | The European Union visiting fellow during the 2005-06 academic year will be Peter Oliver, a lawyer who is attached to the Commission’s legal service. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ycias/europeanstudies/about.htm
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| | European Council. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | It is composed of the heads of government of the EU nations and their foreign ministers, in conjunction with the president and two additional members from the European Commission. | | | The council was given legal definition by the Single European Act (1987). | | | Meetings of the European Council often emphasize political as well as economic cooperation among EU nations; for example, the impetus for the move to have the members of the European Parliament elected directly by universal suffrage came out of an agreement reached at the first meeting of the European Council in 1974. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/eu/EuropnC.html
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| | Council of Europe |
| | European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) | | | Romania chairs the Committee of Ministers November 2005 - May 2006 | | | René van der Linden, the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, on Thursday 23 February, called for an end to the isolation of the Belarusian people and proposed the opening of a Council of Europe office in Minsk. |
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| | European Council |
| | Membership in the European Council is open to all University System of Georgia colleges and universities. | | | The European Council is one of four regional councils operating under the auspices of the System Council for International Education of the University System of Georgia. | | | The European Council coordinates semester or year-long exchanges between students at Georgia universities and the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, England. |
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http://www.valdosta.edu/europeancouncil
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| | European Society of Coloproctology - development and training for coloproctologists in Europe |
| | An ESCP Standing Council was elected during the recent ECCP/EACP annual meeting in Bologna and will ensure the day to day running of the new society. | | | The formation of this society is the result of EACP (European Association of Coloproctology) and ECCP (European Council of Coloproctology) having agreed to merge into one united European Society dedicated to promoting and advancing the science, knowledge and practice of coloproctology in Europe with high quality multidisciplinary annual clinical and scientific meetings. | | | It was agreed that there will be equitable representation across Europe at executive level with annual rotation of Presidents from each of three European regions (east, central and west). |
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| | European Business Council in Japan |
| | The reports focus on upcoming changes to the city planning law. | | | EBC Chairman, Richard Collasse, is the European Co-Chair of Working Party I, which focuses on the topic of “Creating an Open Environment for Trade and Investment.” This year's Roundtable was held in Brussels on July 7 and 8. | | | The survey is supported by the European Business Council in Japan (EBC) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ). |
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| | Canadian European Economic Council |
| | We view public policies based upon commercial protectionism and diplomatic unilateralism as impediments to economic growth and social progress: that's why we oppose them vigorously | | | The CEEC brings together academics, corporate, and political leaders from both sides of the Atlantic, eager to strengthen Canadian European cooperation, by fostering cross-border trade and investment | | | he Canadian European Economic Council (CEEC) was founded in 2000 by M. Nicolas Firzli |
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| | European Cricket Council |
| | W Indies 233-8 v N Zealand 324 Close Zimbabwe v Kenya Start delayed S Lanka 200-5 v B'desh 319 England 136-4 v India | | | The opinions and views expressed therein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the European Cricket Council. | | | This photograph by Matthew Allen from Switzerland was adjudged Photo of the Year in the 2005 ECC Development Program awards. |
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| | EUROPE'S HEADQUARTERS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY - The Renewable Energy House | | | The European Parliament has voted in favor of increased deployment of renewable energy sources and called for mandatory 20% targets by the year 2020. | | | EREC also organised a series of workshops in the new Member States, as part of the market penetration strategy for Renewable Energy Sources both within the European Union and Member States. |
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| | Council of the European Union - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Council of the European Union |
| | Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union | | | European Community law is adopted by the Council, or by the Council and the European Parliament through the co-decision procedure, and may take the form of binding ‘regulations’, ‘directives’, and ‘decisions’. | | | Member states are represented at council meetings by the ministers appropriate to the subject under discussion (for example, ministers of agriculture, environment, education, and so on). |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Council%20of%20the%20European%20Union
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| | Council for European Studies |
| | © 2006 Council for European Studies at Columbia University | | | The Fifteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies will be held March 29–April 2, 2006 in Chicago. | | | Founded in 1970, the Council for European Studies is the leading academic organization for the study of Europe, with a membership of more than 100 institutions and 1,000 individuals. |
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| | eu2001.se - CALENDAR - Meeting information |
| | Stockholm summit a major issue for the Ecofin Council on 12 March | | | The European Council in Lisbon therefore decided that there should be a summit meeting every spring in order to give the Heads of State and Government the opportunity to discuss economic and social issues. | | | Presidency conclusions from the Lisbon European Council March 2000 |
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| | ERCEG - The European Research Council Expert Group |
| | The European Council of Ministers in November 2002 invited the Member States and the Commission to continue discussions on the purpose and scope of a European Research Council (ERC). | | | Professor Mogens Flensted-Jensen, Vice Chair, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Danish Research Councils. | | | Mrs Myrsini Zorba, Member of the European Parliament, Member of its Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, and the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport. |
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| | ISOC European Chapters Coordinating Council :: ISOC European Chapters Coordinating Council |
| | This decision follows an agreement reached by the Council at its meeting on 1 and 2 December 2005. | | | Already tested in last year’s regional elections in Liguria, and during the European elections in June 2004, the electronic submission of ballot papers in the forthcoming Italian general election in April is expected to cut processing times by 65% to 70%. | | | The Italian government has just passed a new law allowing for the electronic submission of ballot papers, in selected regions, in the forthcoming Italian general election on 9 April 2006. |
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| | ESA Portal - First 'Space Council' to set course towards a European Space Programme |
| | The meeting will be chaired jointly by Mrs Edelgard Buhlman, German Minister for Education and Research and current chair of the ESA Council at ministerial level, and by Mr Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs and current chair of the EU Competitiveness Council. | | | EU Press Officer for Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council, and Competitiveness Council | | | European Commission White Paper on European Space Policy |
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| | Welcome to the Quaker Council for European Affairs Website |
| | A revised version of the European Prison Rules was adopted on the 11 January 2006 by the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe. | | | New briefing papers on the subject of Peacebuilding and the European Union | | | French versions of documents related to the campaign for a Peace Tax at the Council of Europe are available at: http://www.quaker.org/qcea/briefings/peacetax/fr/index.htm |
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| | European Universities Debating Championships |
| | The 2006 European University Debating Championships will be held in Berlin from 23-36 March. | | | In this case, please contact the Council executive for information on eligibility. | | | Every year in March or April, university students from all over Europe gather to debate and have fun at the European Universities Debating Championships. |
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| | The ELSO Gazette News |
| | The Council’s agreement followed an earlier, informal, meeting in Uppsala (Sweden) of the various national Ministers for research and education and European Union Commissioners Philippe Busquin (research) and Viviane Reding (education). | | | The Stockholm session was the first regular meeting of the Council since the Lisbon summit in March 2000. | | | Michel Claessens, who heads the Communications Unit for the Research Directorate-General of the EU, said the leaders' decision reflected the Presidency's push to see that "Europe must do more to harness research, finance and business talent to ensure that European ideas reach the European marketplace first." |
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| | European DX Council :: The portal for DX Clubs |
| | The decision completes the new organization of the Council allowing individual dxer to join it. | | | The EDXC Board of Deputies has established in 10 Euros the fee for individual members in 2005. | | | European DX Council :: The portal for DX Clubs |
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| | EAC - European Arboricultural Council |
| | The European Arboricultural Council (EAC) is needed to put the necessary pressure on the appropriate governing institutions and individuals. | | | The European Arboricultural Council (EAC) is a forum where delegates from various arboricultural organizations throughout Europe meet with the object of elevating the status and advancing the profession by liaising on matters ranging from research and education to successful tree establishment and improvement of working practices. | | | This will lead to healthier and longer living trees in towns, parks, gardens, or where trees are grown to beautify Europe. |
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| | PEFC Council: PEFC Council submitted the documentation below to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on PEFC member schemes' implementation of changes to the PEFC Council documentation as requested by the Central Point of Expertise on Timber (CPET) for the UK Timber Procurement Policy. | | | To move the debate forward, the PEFC Council has published a position paper, describing key issues and requirements needed for such an approach to be successful and meaningful. | | | The PEFC Council Position Paper explains how the livelihoods of tribal and indigenous people, their local communities and their traditional rights are taken into account through PEFC certification. |
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http://www.pefc.org
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| | European Council of Classical Homeopathy (ECCH) - Home |
| | European Council of Classical Homeopathy (ECCH) - Home | | | We are sure that this document will be under consideration at the current meeting of the HMPWG and we call on all EU Member States Medicines Agencies to await the outcome of these deliberations which should facilitate the continued availability of these essential medicines through reasonable legislation. | | | In response to the situation described above ECCH has revised its own pharmacy report at its recent Council meeting in Athens and attaches it here for reference. |
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http://www.homeopathy-ecch.org
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| | Welcome to the European Payments Council Web Site |
| | This is done in such a way that banks can maintain self-regulation and meet regulators' and stakeholders' expectations as efficiently as possible. | | | The European Payments Council (EPC) is the decision-making and coordination body of the European banking industry in relation to payments. | | | © 2005 European Payments Council - All rights reserved - last updated |
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| | European Publishers Council : welcome |
| | the way we foster competitiveness in the face of competition from outside the European Union, both from new media sources and from incumbent state aided media. | | | Directives and Regulations affecting the media emerge from at least five separate Commission Directorate-Generals. | | | The EPC will continue to work tirelessly to uphold the fundamental freedoms of a free and competitive media on behalf of our members, our audiences and to promote diversity and democracy in an enlarged European Union. |
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| | :: European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship :: |
| | The ECSB is an affiliation to the ICSB (International Council for Small Business). | | | The European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to advance the understanding of entrepreneurship and to improve the competitiveness of SMEs in Europe. | | | :: European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship :: |
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| | Council of Europe - Treaty Office |
| | From 2004, this Series is continued by the "Council of Europe Treaty Series" (CETS No. 194 and following). | | | Conventions and agreements opened for signature between 1949 and 2003 were published in the "European Treaty Series" (ETS Nos. | | | The Council of Europe’s official treaty web site is now available in French, German, Italian and Russian through the links in its upper navigation banner. |
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| | ECCE - European Council of Civil Engineers |
| | ECCE also advises and influences individual governments and professional institutions, formulates standards and achieves a mutual compatibility of different regulations controlling the profession, and formulates standards for a European Code of Conduct of the Civil Engineering Profession and disciplinary procedures applicable throughout the Union. | | | At the European Union level, ECCE aims to promote the highest technical and ethical standards, to provide a source of impartial advice, and promote co-operation with other pan-European organisations in the construction industry. |
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http://www.eccenet.org
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| | European Brain Council |
| | Copyright © 2006 European Brain Council All rights reserved. | | | If you would like to know more about the EBC or were unable to find the information you were looking for on this site, you can get in contact with us at: |
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