presidency of the European Union

Britain is the current holder of the presidency of the European Union.

Greece holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

The time of the Slovenian presidency of the European Union.

A verdict could come in the summer or fall, during Italy's six-month turn in the rotating presidency of the European Union.

In the words of the presidency of the European Union: ' We deplore the practice of torture.

Other West Europeans asked the French, who hold the rotating presidency of the European Union, to minimize the damage that the Palestinian resolution might cause.

Belgium, my country, was called upon to assume the rotating Presidency of the European Union after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon.

At a time when it is responsible for the Presidency of the European Union, this is a harsh blow to the role and credibility of the Union.

Mr President, two of the four main priorities the Irish presidency of the European Union has set for this six-month period concern economic issues: efficient finance and employment.

"Our talks today showed that we are not cooperating very intensively," Mrs. Merkel, the current holder of the rotating presidency of the European Union, said Friday.

Even the current practice of a six-month presidency of the European Union by each nation in turn will become almost ludicrous with 25 countries, probably including Poland, Hungary and others.

He was the Director of Ireland's participation at the Expo 2000 world fair and acted as Cultural Programme Commissioner during the Irish Presidency of the European Union in 2004.

Ernst Sucharipa, the representative of Austria, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said that the Europeans had concluded that the resolution would not set new legal precedents for the organization.

What is your feeling, Mr Fischer, about this instrument and what is your assessment of the Troika, which is already the first sign of a stable presidency of the European Union?

The 26th of January in 2012, Sinne Eeg, with the Danish Radio Big Band, sang in Brussels for the beginning of the Danish Presidency of the European union council.

The Republic of Ireland takes over the presidency of the European Union, succeeding Italy, whose presidency is widely criticised as having been a failure due to the collapse of efforts to adopt a European constitution.

The agreement "shows the great importance that the European Union attaches to its relations with Russia," said Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece, which now holds the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union.

At the same time as it asked these three things of the Berisha government, the presidency of the European Union invited the opposition parties not to estrange themselves totally and refuse to participate in any way in Albanian political life.

Austria, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said in a statement on Sunday that the Union "is appalled by the violence used against demonstrators" and called for the release of Mr. Kazulin and the other protesters.

George Papandreou, the foreign minister of Greece, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union, worked the telephones during the day to put together a European Union summit meeting later this month that would try to reach a consensus on Iraq.

On 1 May 2004, during Ireland's six-month presidency of the European Union, Áras an Uachtarain was the Venue for the European Day of Welcomes (Accession Day) in which ten new members joined the EU.

While acknowledging this, I respectfully advise you, whatever opinion you may have about Hungarian internal politics, not to associate your criticisms and actions related to Hungarian domestic politics with the following six months of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union.

We all know that the Cyprus question has dragged on for years and successive presidencies of the European Union have attempted mediation to reach a solution, but so have the United Nations and various governments, in particular the government of the United States.

"If I were on the Security Council, which I'm not, I would in the next days sleep with my eyes open and the boots on," said the Danish foreign minister, Per Stig Moller, whose country currently holds the presidency of the European Union.

The issue of where Britain's heart lies has taken on some urgency because starting Jan. 1, Mr. Blair will assume the rotating presidency of the European Union for six months, giving him a significant platform to expound his views while speaking in the name of a united Europe.