European Council on foreign policy
The European Union has been trying for a long time to synchronise the foreign policies of its 27 Member States into a common one. After the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the Union is getting closer to the achievement of this goal, because the Treaty has allowed the creation of the European External Affairs Service, which is almost entirely developed. In order to put additional weight on the importance of a common EU foreign policy, the president of the European Council Herman van Rompuy organises a special European Council (the meeting of the leaders of the Member States), dedicated to foreign policy. The main issues on the agenda of the first of its kind foreign policy Council will be: EU's relations with the Asian countries, the situation in Pakistan after the disastrous floods there, the G20 summit in Seoul in November and the transatlantic relations.
| © European Parliament- Audiovisual ServiceMEPs will hear publicly the nominees for key EU ambassadors
European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee has invited the nominated for EU ambassadors in China, Cambodia, Japan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Sudan for hearings in October. The interviews with the Heads of European Union Delegations in strategic regions, was one of the conditions of MEPs to supp ...
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The European Commission's president Jose Manuel Barroso and the European Council president Herman van Rompuy will be the face and the voice of the common European foreign policy. This is the feeling that the press conference, after the end of the first European Council, dedicated on foreign poli ...
| © The Council of the European UnionChanges in the Lisbon treaty? May be, but unlikely
A change in the Lisbon Treaty, after all, is not excluded in relation to the imposition of sanctions on countries violating the Stability and Growth Pact, as it became clear from the words of EU President Herman Van Rompuy after the European Council on Foreign Policy. Asked whether the task forc ...
| © European CouncilForeign policy as a tool of economy
Foreign policy has always been on the agenda of the European Councils (the summits of the leaders of EU Member States), but in most cases - as last points. Exceptions were made for big events or, unfortunately, for disasters somewhere around the world. With the entering into force of the Lisbon ...
| © Wikimedia CommonsPhilip Dimitrov has received the strategic position Head of EU Delegation in Georgia
Philip Dimitrov has been appointed as an EU ambassador to Georgia. Such a good news and such a recognition Bulgaria hasn't received for a long time, especially given the fact that the race for the 29 vacant positions for Heads of EU Delegations worldwide was tense. Moreover, after the entry into ...
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