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<title>France wants post-EU presidency financial summit</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199197295</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 09:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  France has unveiled plans for a post-French EU presidency financial summit, despite the Czech Republic&#39;s sensitivity  ...  also been floated as candidates for the Lisbon treaty-envisaged job of permanent EU president. But  ...
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<title>Ireland not serving citizens on Lisbon, says Ganley</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199197294</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 09:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  (18 November), Declan Ganley, the head of anti-Lisbon campaign group Libertas, said the Irish government  ...  when Prague takes over the six-month rotating EU presidency from France, otherwise claiming that the central  ...
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<title>Lisbon Yes vote would back &#39;agents of war&#39;</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199135906</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 01:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... OPINION: THERE ARE stronger reasons to approve the Lisbon Treaty than there were last June. It is now more obvious that the EU  ...
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<title>&#39;Institutional limbo&#39; to overshadow 2009 elections</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199033083</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2008 14:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  play a prominent role in the Swedish EU Presidency, which begins in July 2009.  Minister  ...  your presidency may entail resolving the Irish Lisbon Treaty situation, if First of all, let&#39;s  ...
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<title>Retention of commissioner a key Lisbon issue, says Martin</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198930262</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2008 00:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  advance of making a decision on another Lisbon Treaty referendum, Minister for Foreign Affairs Michel  ...  discussions the Government was having with the EU presidency and legal counsel over the past number  ...
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<title>Czech EU presidency to be unusual - Slovak PM in press</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198898977</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 21:22 GMT</pubDate>
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... Czech EU presidency to be unusual - Slovak PM in  ...  country that still fails to ratify the Lisbon treaty, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico says  ...
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<title>Russia FM to discuss new Euro-Atlantic security treaty in Portugal</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198799090</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 10:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is embarking on a two-day visit to Portugal on Monday. He is arriving in Lisbon and on Tuesday he will hold talks with his Portuguese colleague Luis Amado and  ...
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<title>Irish lawmaker blasts Czech leader during state visit</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198779663</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 07:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  The Czech Republic, which assumes the rotating EU presidency on January 1, will have to deal  ...  rejection in a June referendum of the Lisbon Treaty aimed at streamlining the decision- making  ...
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<title>Vaclav Klaus, provocateur from Prague - The Times</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198708466</link>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2008 18:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  week, meeting the local leader of the Lisbon treaty opponents, and to his subsequent clash  ...  recalls that in October &quot;Klaus described the EU presidency as &#39;insignificant&#39;. He likens Europe today with  ...
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<title>&quot;Courage for Europe&quot; &#39; A small future offensive</title>
<link>http://mining.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198655393</link>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2008 05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  EU foreign ministers, mediation missions by the EU Presidency in coordination with the OSCE chair, the  ...  order, as a European competence filter. of Lisbon also shows that Europe has meanwhile learnt  ...
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