That summit comes at an auspicious time, as the EU reviews its European Neighborhood Policy (launched in 2004) and the Eastern Partnership (launched in 2009), ahead of a second grand summit in Budapest under the Hungarian EU presidency in May 2011.

In that context, the timely holding of a second EU Africa summit, as foreseen in the Cairo Declaration, remains an important objective of the EU Africa dialogue.

The place to start is Ukraine. Fortunately, the EU Ukraine summit on September 9 in Evian, France, provides the perfect opportunity.

Sarkozy regards an EU economic government as a way to preserve his leadership in the EU beyond France s Council presidency, which is now ending. Although the Czech Republic will assume the EU presidency in January, this has not prevented the French President from convening a new EU summit under Sarkozy s leadership in the first half of 2009.

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In the wake of Turkey s fraying relations with Russia, the decision to proceed with the planned EU Turkey Summit is an important one.

In the context of the upcoming September summit, the EU attaches importance to including strong language in the outcome document which condemns terrorism.

Within days of the votes, they failed to agree on the EU budget for 2007 13. French and British leaders engaged in a heated quarrel that derailed the subsequent summit, before Britain assumed the rotating six month EU presidency in July.

The EU strongly endorses Security Council resolution 1624 (2005), adopted by the Council during the summit, urging all States to make incitement of terrorism illegal and to combat extremist ideologies.

The drubbing that many governments suffered in the recent elections to the European Union Parliament places them in a difficult position as they maneuver ahead of this week's EU Summit. Only an incurable optimist can hope that the summit will bring glory to any of them.

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At the UN World Summit, a strong and unambiguous commitment to achieve the Millennium Development goals had been given, and the EU was considering further innovative sources of financing for development.

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Statements by new EU members leaders at the summit indicated that they were aware of such a possibility. They were worried about the EU s future certainly more so than their Western counterparts.

As its hard power ebbs, its soft power, as illustrated by the Copenhagen summit, seems to be very weak. This in part arises from a failure to provide the EU with political power.

This tension between Europeans goals and their ability to achieve them is playing out again in the wake of the recent EU summit. Europe s leaders now agree on a vision of what the EU should become an economic and monetary union complemented by a banking union, a fiscal union, and a political union.

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None of this will be easy, not only because Europe s relationship with Russia has grown so chilly, but also because Putin is understood to despise the EU as politically impotent. Russian leaders may have misinterpreted as a sign of weakness Europe s representation at last month s EU Russia summit by two Portuguese politicians European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose government currently holds the revolving EU presidency.

The EU underscores its support for stronger United Nations wide coherence, starting with the implementation of the measures identified at the summit to promote coherence of policy, operational activities, humanitarian assistance and environmental activities.

Our commitment will be total. Our intention is to work with our EU colleagues, to build upon the success of the Luxembourg presidency and to deliver a strong European Union contribution to the summit.

The G 20 Summit in Antalya, held on November 15 16, was to cement Erdoğan s triumphant return to the world stage, ending a period of relative isolation by the West that reflected disapproval of his authoritarian tendencies. And a joint EU Turkey summit was scheduled for November 29 to formalize the action plan.

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We welcome the OAU apos s endorsement, at its summit in Ouagadougou in June 1998, of the EU apos s proposal to hold, in the first half of the year 2000, a summit of the heads of State and Government of the European Union and of Africa. We are intensively working on the preparation of the summit in order to achieve a successful outcome. The summit will offer a unique opportunity to debate political and economic subjects of common interest at the highest political level.

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In the EU, deadlines for the application of HACCP depend on national endorsement of the EU regulations.

But the EU has so far failed to prepare the Western Balkans for accession, in line with its leaders promise at their Thessaloniki summit in 2003 to admit the Western Balkan states when they meet the Union s standards.

Bearing in mind the call in the 2005 World Summit Outcome for stronger system wide coherence among agencies, funds and programmes, the EU welcomed the progress made in the implementation of the Cooperation Agreement between UNIDO and UNDP.

Noting with appreciation the Secretary General's recent letters of invitation addressed to Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission and Mr. Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for Common Foreign Security Policy, and his fruitful discussions with the EU Commissioner for External Relations, Mrs. Benita Ferrero Waldner, on the sidelines of the 17th Arab League Summit in Algiers.

First, the EU has to accept at least a million asylum seekers annually for the foreseeable future. And, to do that, it must share the burden fairly a principle that a qualified majority finally established at last Wednesday s summit.

The commitments from the Gleneagles G8 Summit built on Africa's own efforts as set out in NEPAD and by the African Union, and the EU remained committed to supporting the former to fulfil its potential to further Africa's development.

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