* In May 2005, the European Space Agency proposed research in space to achieve femto-kelvin temperatures.

* 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.

In 2005 Bulgaria Air transported 517, 000 passengers to international destinations, including all major European cities

Exports to the European Union were US $ 15. 4 billion, a 63. 7 % increased compared to 2005 ( US $ 9. 4 billion ).

It applied in 2003, and began with accession negotiations in 2005 ( see also: Accession of Croatia to the European Union ).

The European Commission has proposed to assist Croatia's efforts to join the European Union with 245 million euros from PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD aid programs over the course of 2005 and 2006.

The World Bank reported that the European Union was the top food importer in 2005, followed at a distance by the USA and Japan.

* 2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

After an agreement with the European Union in 2005, this tax exempt regime is due to disappear on 31 December 2010.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

* European Petroleum Survey Group ( EPSG ) ( which despite being officially disbanded in 2005 continues to refine a well tested set of Geodetic Parameters )

It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ), and successfully launched on 28 December 2005 by the European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint.

The closing-down of the Guantanamo Prison has been requested by Amnesty International ( May 2005 ), the United Nations ( February 2006 ) and the European Union ( May 2006 ).

In September 2005, a joint political declaration between the European Union and Iraq was signed which forms the basis of regular political dialogue.

July 2005 saw the introduction of EUJUST LEX, the European Union's rule of law operation intended to train Iraqi police and legal officials in human rights along with other issues.

* Grzega, Joachim ( 2005 ), “ Towards Global English via Basic Global English ( BGE ): Socioeconomic and Pedagogic Ideas for a European and Global Language ( with Didactic Examples for Native Speakers of German ), Journal for EuroLinguistiX 2: 65-164.

From 2005 to 2011, there were protracted dealings between Jersey and the United Kingdom over Jersey's " zero-ten " tax regime and whether it would be acceptable to the European Union.

* Grant F. Scott, " Sacred Relics: A Discovery of New Severn Letters ," European Romantic Review 16: 3 ( 2005 ): 283-295.

Geagea was released on July 26, 2005 and left immediately for an undisclosed European nation to undergo medical examinations and convalesce.

On 10 July 2005, after threats of resignation by Prime Minister Juncker, the proposed European Constitution was approved by 56. 52 % of voters.

Two further programmes followed on European painters ; Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse ( 2004 ) and Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi ( 2005 ), about the French artist Henri Matisse and Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi respectively.

" European Legacy 2005 10 ( 3 ): 179-195.

Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) and is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.

It is the only language in Poland with this status, which was granted by an act of the Polish Parliament on January 6, 2005.

Parliament voted for the release of the former Lebanese Forces warlord Samir Geagea in the first session since election were held in the spring of 2005.

In three subsequent elections to the Sejm, he ran all the time from Łódź, each time gaining more and more votes ( from 50 thousand in 1991 up to 146 thousand in 2001 ); he held a seat in Parliament till 2005.

In 2005, despite the support of the Łódź Branch of the Democratic Left Alliance, Leszek Miller was not registered on the election list to the Parliament.

Loku Bandara, Speaker of the Parliament ( 2005 )

On 1 February 2005 King Gyanendra suspended the Parliament, appointed a government led by himself, and enforced martial law.

At the 2005 federal election, the Left Party became the fourth-largest party in the Bundestag, with 54 Members of Parliament ( MPs ) ( full list ), ahead of the Greens ( 51 ) but behind the Free Democrats ( 61 ).

* A Left Party Member of the European Parliament, Feleknas Uca, was the world's only elected Yezidi politician until three were elected to the Iraqi legislature in 2005.

* Perth ( UK Parliament constituency ), a Parliament of the United Kingdom constituency from 1832 to 1950 and again from 1997 to 2005

The circumstances in which Railtrack had been put into administration were highly controversial, with allegations in Parliament on 24 October 2005 that the company had not been insolvent at the time ( 7 October 2001 ) and therefore that the administration order had been wrongly obtained.

The party was returned to power under the same leadership in December 2005, holding the same twelve seats in Parliament.

In 2005 Parliament approved a proposal by the independent Elections and Boundaries Commission to increase the number of seats in the House of Representatives from 36 to 41.

In recent years, Victoria has had to expand out of its original campus in Kelburn, and new campuses have been set up in Te Aro ( architecture and design ), Pipitea ( opposite Parliament, housing the law, and commerce and administration schools ) and Karori ( education )-the Wellington College of Education, established in 1880, merged with the University to become its revived Faculty of Education on 1 January 2005.

In 2005, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Holocaust which included the persecution of homosexuals.

In August 2005, Parliament voted to change the constitution to lift presidential term limits, allowing Museveni to run for a third term if he wishes to do so.

In October 2005, the House of Lords dismissed the Alliance's appeal against this decision, with an unusually large panel of nine Law Lords holding that the 1949 Act was a valid Act of Parliament.

Twenty Scottish Members of Parliament signed a House of Commons motion in March 2005 condemning him for comparing supposed Scottish dominance at Westminster to British rule in India: a " Scottish Raj " was running the UK, said Paxman.

Among the people buried in the cathedral, the most famous is probably Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE ( 1916 – 2005 ), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001, and who lived in the Cathedral Close for the last twenty years of his life.

Members of Parliament ( Sejm ) elected from Kielce constituency in 2005:

In India, a clause to include software patents was quashed by the Indian Parliament in April 2005.

In the Basque elections of April 17, 2005, EHAK obtained 150. 188 votes ( 12, 5 %), entering the Basque Parliament with nine seats ( all but one being women ).

Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th Baronet (; born 9 August 1932 ), known as Tam Dalyell, is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005.

A government minister from 1997 to 2005, he has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Greenwich & Woolwich since 1997, having previously been MP for Greenwich from 1992 to 1997, and for Fulham from 1986 to 1987.