The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

The United States-along with the European Union-has restricted the travel of President Alexander Lukashenko and members of his inner circle, as well as imposing economic sanctions.

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.

Government officials in charge of foreign policy include the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, currently Gordan Jandroković, and the President of the Republic, currently Ivo Josipović.

On 2 December 1823, US President James Monroe specifically addressed Cuba and other European colonies in his proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine.

He also stated that French President Sarkozy is like any other European elite: he has profited through the murder, rape, and pillaging of those less fortunate and he refuses to allow equal opportunity for those men and women from Africa.

The European Council is similar to a configuration of the Council, it operates in a similar way and but is composed of the national leaders ( heads of government or state ) and has its own President, currently Herman Van Rompuy.

The European Council deals with the major issues such as the appointment of the President of the European Commission who takes part in the body's meetings.

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.

* 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

* Alexander Plahr ( FDP, Germany ): President, European Liberal Youth ( LYMEC )

* The President of the European Liberal Youth

The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( the predecessor of the present day European Parliament ) first met on 10 September 1952 and the first Christian Democratic group was unofficially formed the next day, with Maan Sassen as President.

It is mandatory for the flag to be used in every official speech made by the President of the European Council and it is often used at official meetings between the leaders of an EU state and a non-EU state ( the national flag and European flag appearing together ).

Following the 2004 Summer Olympics, President Romano Prodi pointed out that the combined medal total of the European Union was far greater than that of any other country and called for EU athletes to fly the European flag at the following games alongside their own as a sign of solidarity ( which did not happen ).

However, because the constitution still stipulates only that the President leads foreign policy and the government internal policy, the responsibility over European Union affairs is not explicitly resolved.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating that new central bank regulations, allowing political intervention, " seriously harm " Hungary's interests, postponing talks on a financial aid package.

The Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal despite French and British opposition ; he estimated a European answer was most unlikely to happen.

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

The executive at the central level, is divided between the President, and a Prime Minister appointed by him / her from the party having the majority of seats in Parliament.

Kamitatu has since left both the MLC and the Parliament to create his own party, and ally with current President Joseph Kabila.

Parliament meets for one eight-month session each year ; under special circumstances the President of the Republic can call an additional session.

Even though the powers of the Parliament have increased since the 1980 Amendments of the Constitution, the Parliament continues to lack the powers to balance the extensive powers of the President.

The Parliament elects a President, who can be in office for a five year period for a maximum of two terms in succession.

In particular, Parliament elects the President of the Commission, and approves ( or rejects ) the appointment of the Commission as a whole.

Helen Clark said that the Fijian constitution only allowed the President to request the dissolving of Parliament if the Prime Minister no longer had the confidence of the Parliament and that this was clearly not the case.

Before 2000, the President had the right to enact regulations on matters not governed by parliamentary law, but this power was removed, and existing regulations were converted into regular statutes by the Parliament.

There is also a High Court of Impeachment for criminal charges ( for an offence in office ) against the President of the Republic, the justices of the supreme courts, members of the Council of State, the Chancellor of Justice and the Ombudsman of Parliament.

In 2008, Parliament voted to dismiss President Preval's Prime Minister following severe rioting over food prices.

::: The President is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, shall preside over the Supreme Council of Defense established by law, and shall make declarations of war as have been agreed by Parliament.

::: The President of the Republic may, after consulting the Prime Minister and the Presidents of the Houses of Parliament, declare the National Assembly dissolved.

::: Where the institutions of the Republic, the independence of the Nation, the integrity of its territory or the fulfilment of its international commitments are under serious and immediate threat, and where the proper functioning of the constitutional public authorities is interrupted, the President of the Republic shall take measures required by these circumstances, after formally consulting the Prime Minister, the Presidents of the Houses of Parliament and the Constitutional Council. He shall address the Nation and inform it of such measures. The measures shall be designed to provide the constitutional public authorities as swiftly as possible, with the means to carry out their duties.

The Constitutional Council shall be consulted with regard to such measures. Parliament shall sit as of right. The National Assembly shall not be dissolved during the exercise of such emergency powers. After thirty days of the exercise of such emergency powers, the matter may be referred to the Constitutional Council by the President of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate, sixty Members of the National Assembly or sixty Senators, so as to decide if the conditions laid down in paragraph one still apply.

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

In October 1999, the People's Consultative Assembly ( MPR ), which consists of the 500-member Parliament plus 200 appointed members, elected Abdurrahman Wahid, commonly referred to as " Gus Dur " as President, and Megawati Sukarnoputri as Vice President, for 5-year terms.

Although the changes gave the President the power to dissolve Parliament, it also more clearly defined Parliament's powers.

Parliament's presidency was once again divided between the People's Party and the Socialists, with Jerzy Buzek elected as the first President of the European Parliament from an ex-communist country.

On 17 February, Parliament's Conference of Presidents ( the President of the Parliament and the leaders of the political groups ) approved JURI's request to restart the process, and agreed to pass the request to the European Commission.

Lebanon specifies the religious affiliation of several of its high officers, such as the President ( Maronite ), the Prime Minister ( Sunni Muslim ) and the Parliament's Speaker ( Shia Muslim ).

Constitutionally, it functions as an electoral college to choose Fiji's President ( a largely honorary position, modelled on the British Monarchy ), the Vice-President, and 14 of the 32 Senators, members of Parliament's " upper house " which has a veto over most legislation.

Since June 2007 she has served as Vice President of the European Parliament's Socialist Group, is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and currently sits on the Temporary Committee on Climate Change.

However in order to take up their role in the Commission, in particular as a Vice President, the High Representative has to appear before Parliament for questioning and then be subject to Parliament's vote of approval on the proposed Commission.

The President chairs debates and oversees all the activities of the Parliament and its constituent bodies ( ensuring the Parliament's rules of procedure are applied ), in this the role is similar to that of a speaker in a national parliament.

When the European Council meets, the President addresses it to give the Parliament's position on subjects on the Council's agenda.

The Parliament's President meanwhile articulates the EU's values such as democratic elections in other countries.

During the European Parliament's session on 14 March 2007, Parliament's President Hans-Gert Pöttering reprimanded Maciej Giertych for the content of his pamphlet in accordance with Rule 147 of the EP's Rules of Procedure.

This reflects the fact that the Parliament's President is not part of the executive branch but still ranks higher in ( symbolic ) importance than the Chancellor.

The Ground Forces reluctantly became involved in the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 after President Yeltsin issued an unconstitutional decree dissolving the Parliament, following the Parliament's resistance to Yeltsin's consolidation of power and his neo-liberal reforms.

The Commission also isn't direct elected although future appointments of the President must take into account of results of Parliament's elections.

During this term, he served as a Vice President of the Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs ( L. I. B. E.

Outside of the European Parliament's chamber and committee rooms, David Hallam was the President of the monthly Prayer Breakfast.

Raffaele Lombardo ( born on 29 October 1950 in Catania ) is an Italian politician, President of Sicily and former Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for Autonomies and has sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

From 1994 to 1999 he was president of the European Parliament's Scientific and Technological Options Assessment, as well as President of the " Intergroupe Ciel et Espace Européen ".

COSAC was founded in 1989 on a proposal of Laurent Fabius, then President of the French National Assembly and at the same time an MEP on the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee.