Thanks to the consistent position of Austria during the meeting of EU foreign ministers, a long period of instability and the questioning of the determination of the Croatian government to surrender war criminals has ended successfully.

The negotiations that led to the decision ended in a compromise between the EU and Japan, in that Japan was promised 20 % of the research staff on the French location of ITER, as well as the head of the administrative body of ITER.

He was Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs in the governments of Ruud Lubbers three times and was in 1991 one of the EU negotiators of the Brioni Agreement, which ended the ten day war in Slovenia.

Jadranka Kosor signed an agreement with Borut Pahor, the premier of Slovenia, in November 2009, that ended Slovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession and allowed Croatian EU entry negotiations to proceed.

He was Minister for Education 1985 – 1987, Minister for Foreign Affairs 1987 – 1992 ; in that role he was one of the EU negotiators in Brioni Agreement that ended ten day war in Slovenia in 1991 ; Member of the European Parliament and European Commissioner.

Apart from the EU Presidency in 2002 during which the enlargement of the European Union was decided, the main issues for the cabinet were the so-called tax freeze, which ended the upward drift in municipal income tax rates, tax cuts, law and order, limiting the number of refugees and immigrants coming to Denmark as well as the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This ended all discriminatory restrictions on civilian flights to Gibraltar International, including the prohibition of flights over Spanish soil, and exclusion of Gibraltar from all EU agreements on air transport, allowing civilian flights from all nations into Gibraltar International.

The Council of the European Union decided against Belarus in 1997: The PCA was not concluded, nor was its trade-related part ; Belarusian membership in the Council of Europe was not supported ; bilateral relations at the ministerial level were suspended and EU technical assistance programs were frozen.

It has experienced rapid economic growth, even though its income level remains the lowest within the EU with an average monthly wage of 754 leva ( 386 euro ).

The European Union fully implemented the Basel Ban in its Waste Shipment Regulation ( EWSR ), making it legally binding in all EU member states.

Although for instance the EU ( as well as many other developed countries ) has a balanced monetary balance of trade, its physical trade balance ( especially with developing countries ) is negative, meaning that a lot less material is exported than imported.

The Kosovo declaration of independence is supported by the majority of EU member states, but disputed by Serbia, which continues to regard Kosovo as its own territory, and most other countries.

Turkey has recently, as a move towards EU membership, undergone a reform of its legal system.

Following the 2008 revision of the EU Regulation that governs European political parties allowing the creation of European foundations affiliated to Europarties, the EFA established in September 2007 its official foundation / think tank, the Centre Maurits Coppieters ( CMC ).

ECMWF, through its partnerships with EUMETSAT, ESA, the EU and the European Science community has established a leading position for Europe in the exploitation of satellite data for operational numerical weather prediction, and in the exploitation of satellite data for operational seasonal forecasting with coupled atmosphere-ocean-land models.

France generally has worked to strengthen the global economic and political influence of the EU and its role in common European defense and collective security.

Most EU laws do not apply to Greenland ; however, owing to its connection with Denmark, Greenland continues to enjoy preferential access to EU markets.

The EU mission's spokesman in Guinea-Bissau said the EU had to suspend its programme when the mastermind of the mutiny, General Antonio Indjai, became army chief of staff.

In order to classify a business as a service, one can use classification systems such as the United Nations's International Standard Industrial Classification standard, the United States ' Standard Industrial Classification ( SIC ) code system and its new replacement, the North American Industrial Classification System ( NAICS ), the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community ( NACE ) in the EU and similar systems elsewhere.

The EU, however, is pressing ahead with its plans to include aviation.

In its comprehensive advice to EU policy makers, The EFSA BIOHAZ Panel looked at the efficacy and microbiological safety of the process, and the CEF Panel looked at possible risks arising from the formation of chemical substances as a result of food irradiation.

Like all EU Directives, this is an instrument which requires member states to enact its provisions in national legislation.

Macedonia ’ s external trade struggled in 2010 due to the slow recovery from the economic crisis of its main trading partners, particularly EU members.

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.

Now part of the Eurozone, but not the EU, Monaco mints its own Euro coins.

Since the late 90s in Austria, slow release oral morphine has been used alongside methadone and buprenorphine for OST and more recently it has been approved in Slovenia and Bulgaria, and it has gained approval in other EU nations including the United Kingdom, although its use is not as of yet not as widespread.

The EU court said the southern Dutch city of Maastricht was within its rights when it introduced a " weed passport " in 2005 to prevent foreigners from entering cafes that sell marijuana.

As early as 1996, 70 % of its trade was with EU members, and neighboring Germany today is Poland's dominant trading partner.

All missions to the United Nations are known simply as permanent missions, while EU Member States ' missions to the European Union are known as permanent representations and the head of such a mission is typically both a permanent representative and an ambassador.

European citizens in need of consular help in a country without diplomatic or consular representation of their own country may turn to any consular or diplomatic mission of another EU member state.

" The EU mission thinks this is a breach in the constitutional order.

The state institutions collapsed and an EU military mission led by Italy was sent to stabilize the country.

Despite the presence of an EU observer mission, canceled ballots and illegal voting took place, the majority of which in RPT strongholds.

The EU will establish a European Security and Defense Policy Rule of Law mission to focus on the policing and justice sectors.

Much of the UN powers in Kosovo were transferred to the Kosovo Government and the EU policing mission in Kosovo called EULEX.

Reportedly the UN will give way to the EU mission in Albanian areas, but retain control over police in Serb-inhabited areas and set up local and district courts serving minority Serbs.

* EU mission in Kosovo

As the ‘ Bank of the European Union ’, the EIB ’ s mission is to make a difference to the future of Europe and its partners by supporting sound investments which further EU policy goals.

In November 2008, Serbian media reported Pierre Mirel, director of the EU enlargement commission's western Balkans division as saying: " The EU has accepted that the deployment of EULEX has to be approved by the United Nations Security Council, and that the mission has to be neutral and will not be related to the Ahtisaari plan ," Mirel said, following his meeting with Serbia's vice-president Bozidar Djelic.

In July 2007, however, when the EU, Russia and the United States agreed to find a new format for the talks, Ahtisaari announced that he regarded his mission as over.

It's mission is to find a common security culture for the EU, to help develop and project the CFSP, and to enrich Europe ’ s strategic debate.

It was the first such mission undertaken by the EU within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Following an invitation by the Bosnian authorities, the EU decided to establish a follow-on police mission with a modified mandate and size.

COREPER, from French Comité des représentants permanents, is the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union, made up of the head or deputy head of mission from the EU member states in Brussels.

Evans was an election observer for the European Parliament, and was Chair of the mission to observe the Pakistan elections in 2008 and EU Chief Observer to Cambodia in 2003.

It soon broadened to an EU-led mission with France as the framework nation providing the bulk of the personnel and complemented by contributions from both EU and non-EU nations.

As well as in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the EU has maintain its deployment of peacekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of EUFOR Althea mission.

The EU returned to the DRC during July – November 2006 with EUFOR RD Congo, which supported the UN mission there during the country's elections.

On 28 January 2008, the EU deployed its largest and most multi-national mission to Africa, EUFOR Tchad / RCA.

The UN-mandated mission involves troops from 25 EU states ( 19 in the field ) deployed in areas of eastern Chad and the north-eastern Central African Republic in order to improve security in those regions.