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Council of the European Union

Norwegian Government: EU repeals anti-dumping measures against Norwegian salmon

The Council of the European Union decided today to repeal the anti-dumping measures on imports of farmed salmon originating in Norway with effect from 20 July. This means that the measures imposed by the EU on 21 January 2006...

How to keep our Commissioner

IT WOULD be easy for the Government to ensure Ireland retained its Commissioner under the present EU treaties, at least for the next 30 years. According to the ill-conceived Article 4 of Protocol 10, quietly appended to the...

France: No candidate status for Serbia in 2008

Serbia will not become an EU candidate this year, according to a French official. France's State Secretary for European Affairs Jean-Pierre Jouyet told Novi Sad daily Dnevnik in an interview published today that his country...

First Annual Activity Report of the European Court of Auditors

European court of auditors EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS PRESS RELEASE First Annual Activity Report of the European Court of Auditors ECA President Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira today presented the European Court of Auditors'...

Other decisions Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions set...

Operational Issues ECB Guideline on the management of foreign reserve assets On 20 June 2008, the Governing Council adopted a Guideline on the management of the foreign reserve assets of the European Central Bank by the...

Salmon – finally off the hook

The EU decision to lift sanctions against Norwegian salmon exports, give producers the predictabilty they need, says fisheries minister Helga Pedersen. After two decades of disagreement, barriers to against Norwegian salmon are...

Proposed EU policy on illegal immigrants alarms UN rights experts

Ten independent United Nations human rights experts have expressed their deep concern at a proposed European Union policy that seeks to harmonize standards and procedures for returning "irregularly staying third-country...

The EU directives which stamp authority on post offices

I was shocked about Peter Luff (EJ, July 10) stating "the EU has nothing to do with EU closures and is a myth". Dec/97 - EU Directive 1997/67/EC from 1st Sept/99. This opened up our Royal Mail to competition - for all mail over...

Nicolas Sarkozy at the European Parliament: the beginning of the French Presidency

Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Council of the European Union for the next 6 months, presented this Thursday 10 July the objectives of the French Presidency to the members of the European Parliament, gathered in plenary...

Ireland quietly seething over Sarkozy remarks

While Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen played down the significance of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's remarks that Ireland will have to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, the country's 'no' camp found his...