* Adrian Severin ( born 1954 ), Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament

* 2003 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament ( b. 1941 )

The Sakharov Prize, which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honor.

In December 1985 the European Parliament established the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to be given annually for outstanding contributions to human rights.

The Sakharov Prize, established in 1988 and awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, was named in his honor.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

After many buffetings and, finally, after the catastrophic results of the June European Parliament election, 2004 Špidla resigned after a revolt in his own party and the government was reshuffled on the same basis.

The Council of the European Union ( sometimes just called the Council and sometimes still referred to as the Council of Ministers ) is the institution in the essentially bicameral legislature of the European Union ( EU ) representing the executives of member states, the other legislative body being the European Parliament.

The primary purpose of the Council is to act as one of the two chambers of the EU's legislative branch, the other chamber being the European Parliament.

It monitors and co-ordinates work and deals with the Parliament on co-decision legislation ( along with leading the non – EU defence organisation, the Western European Union ).

It elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election, and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001, and by author James Bamford in his books on the National Security Agency of the United States.

The European Parliament stated in its report that the term ECHELON is used in a number of contexts, but that the evidence presented indicates that it was the name for a signals intelligence collection system.

The UKUSA intelligence community was assessed by the European Parliament ( EP ) in 2000 to include the signals intelligence agencies of each of the member states:

The report to the European Parliament of 2001 states: " If UKUSA states operate listening stations in the relevant regions of the earth, in principle they can intercept all telephone, fax and data traffic transmitted via such satellites.

The report to the European Parliament points out that interception of private communications by foreign intelligence services is not necessarily limited to the U. S. or British foreign intelligence services.

Most reports on ECHELON focus on satellite interception ; testimony before the European Parliament indicated that separate but similar UK-US systems are in place to monitor communication through undersea cables, microwave transmissions and other lines.

In 2001 the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the US intelligence agences.

The European Parliament ( abbreviated as Europarl or the EP ) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union ( EU ).

The Parliament is currently composed of 754 Members of the European Parliament, who represent the second largest democratic electorate in the world ( after the Parliament of India ) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world ( 375 million eligible voters in 2009 ).

Azerbaijan also maintains good relations with the European Union, in the framework of its Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy ( See Azerbaijan and the European Union ).

The Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

However, Germany is giving increasing attention to coordinating its policies with the European Union through the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Within the context of the European Union's " European Neighbourhood Policy " the EU and Jordan have jointly adopted an Action plan to reinforce their political and economic interdependence, and further implement their current Association Agreement.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.

Moldova currently aspires to join the European Union and is implementing its first three-year Action Plan within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy ( ENP ) of the EU.

The Dutch also pursue defense cooperation within Europe, both multilaterally-in the context of the Western European Union and the European Security and Defence Policy of the EU-and bilaterally, as in the German-Netherlands Corps.

" The Corporatist Character of Bismarck's Social Policy ," European History Quarterly, Oct 1981 ; vol.

The privileges mentioned herein covers — few of which — the economical and education aspects of Malaysians, e. g. the Malaysian New Economic Policy ; an economic policy recently criticised by Thierry Rommel — who headed a European Commission's delegation to Malaysia — as an excuse for " significant protectionism " and a quota maintaining higher access of Malays into public universities.

On the one hand, agricultural funds the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union ( CAP ) is spread across more countries ( the Eastern Europe countries have a significant agricultural sector ), on the other, the structural and cohesion funds have declined inevitably due to the Spanish economic success ( since their income has progressed strongly in absolute terms ) and due to the incorporation of less developed countries, lowers the average income per capita ( or GDP per capita ), so that Spanish regions relatively less developed, have come to be in the European average or even above it.

* European Neighbourhood Policy

Since the end of the Cold War, WEU tasks and institutions have been transferred to the Common Security and Defence Policy which is being framed for the geographically larger and more comprehensive European Union.

Among them there is the Centre for European Policy Studies ( CEPS ), Bruegel, the Global Governance Institute ( GGI ), the European Policy Centre ( EPC ), ThinkYoung, the Friends of Europe, the Lisbon Council, the European Centre of International Political Economy ( ECIPE ), and the Centre for the New Europe ( CNE ).

" All will be released into the wild near Mount Kenya. In 2004 Woburn Safari Parks ' Dr. Jake Veasey ; the Head of the Department of Animal Management and Conservation at Woburn Safari Park and a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums Population Management Advisory Group, with the assistance of Lindsay Banks took over responsibility for the management and coordination of the European Endangered species Programme ( EEP ) for the eastern bongo.

After the dissolution of the OSS in 1945, Marcuse was employed by the US Department of State as head of the Central European section, retiring after the death of his first wife in 1951.

The State Gallery shows the European Art from the 11th to the 20th century, the Nature Department shows the zoology, geology, botanic, geology and a Vivarium with fishes, insects, reptiles and amphibians.

Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917 – 1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany.

The group is on the U. S. Department of State's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and the European Union and Canada likewise describe it as a terrorist organization and prohibit providing funding or other financial support.

SYSTRAN has done extensive work for the United States Department of Defense and the European Commission.

* Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages

The concept, referred to as " Dollar Diplomacy ", called for the State Department to coordinate loans to the countries for infrastructure improvement from the largest banks in the U. S. Strategically, this was designed to strengthen security for the Panama Canal, increase American trade, and diminish the presence of European nations in the area.

French foreign minister and former UN Kosovo chief, Bernard Kouchner, warned that a unilateral declaration would split the European Union over recognition of the independence, whilst US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack commented that, ' There is nothing to be gained by short-circuiting the diplomatic process that is under way.

In 1995, the European Patent Office ( EPO ) granted a patent on an anti-fungal product derived from neem to the US Department of Agriculture and W. R. Grace and Company.

According to a 2010 census conducted by the Sociology Department of Tehran University in many districts of Tehran across various socio-economic classes in proportion to population sizes of each district and socio-economic class, 63 % of people in Tehran were born in Tehran, 98 % know Persian, 67 % identify themselves as ethnic Persian, and 13 % have some degree of proficiency in a European language.

However, the deal did not go through because of pressure from the US Department of Justice and the European Union on concerns of it creating a monopoly.

MRTA was considered a terrorist organization by the Peruvian government, the US Department of State and the European Parliament but was later removed from the U. S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations on October 5, 2001.

However, many competition agencies — including the Justice Department antitrust division and the European Commission Directorate General for competition — lack authority over consumer protection.

The new immigrants were unwilling ( or perhaps unable ) to cooperate with the Relief Committee: among the list of 1, 153 victims treated at the makeshift hospital in the Central High School, prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, no names of Eastern European derivation are listed.

The explorer-geographer David Thompson ( 1770-1857 ), working as head of the North West Company's Columbia Department, became the first European to explore the Inland Northwest.

His father, Ernest Walter Jones, was a domiciled European who worked in the Telegraph Department in India ; his mother, Merlyn Edith Jones ( née Jones ), was an Anglo-Indian woman, daughter of a Postmaster of Madras.

* Department of Public Policy, Central European University

The United States Department of Energy and the European Union recently committed to related research projects.

The respective national authorities, the U. S. Department of Justice ( DOJ ) and the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) in the United States and the European Commission's Competition Directorate General ( DGCOMP ) have formed international support and enforcement networks.

" Colloquium, CERI / GMF, February 2 – 3, 2004, POLITICS, IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES Department of Politics and Center for European Studies New York University PDF document

The university is home to a number of internationally renowned research centres and schools, including the Birmingham Business School, the oldest business school in England ( which is accredited by both AMBA and EQUIS ), the University of Birmingham Medical School, which produces more medical doctors than any other university in Britain, the International Development Department, the Institute of Local Government Studies, the Centre of West African Studies, the European Research Institute, the Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications and the Shakespeare Institute.

In a report issued by the State Department, Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat noted that the United States accepted only 21, 000 refugees from Europe and did not significantly raise or even fill its restrictive quotas, accepting far fewer Jews per capita than many of the neutral European countries and fewer in absolute terms than Switzerland.