Luxembourg plays down EU Commissioner's Filipino maid row
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Luxembourg's Labor Ministry on Wednesday denied improperly authorizing a work permit for a Filipina housekeeper employed by European Commissioner Viviane Reding.
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The incoming European commissioner for industry has rejected suggestions that lower taxes in new member states will lead to job losses in western Europe.
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The European Commission&#39;s (EC) president-elect, Jose Manuel Barroso, on Tuesday defended his team of commissioners in the European Parliament (EP) in a bid to secure
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ROME : Italy&#39;s disputed nominee for the EU justice and security commissioner&#39;s post denied having made new comments denigrating the role of women and said he was being victimized by the media.
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A senior U.S. official on Wednesday   shrugged off EU threats to impose visa requirements on U.S.   diplomats in retaliation for a U.S. delay in extending a visa   waiver scheme to all EU states.
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The incoming EU industry commissioner rejects suggestions that lower taxes in new member states will lead to job losses in western Europe.
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The new European Union commission chief has full confidence in his team despite the refusal by European Parliament members to endorse Italy's Rocco Buttiglione as justice commissioner because of his views on gays, the EU's executive body revealed.
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BRUSSELS: Luxembourg vowed yesterday to work to secure a compromise deal over the European Union's contested long-term budget during the country's presidency of the 25-nation bloc in the first half of 2005.
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Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM5) are a model to be followed, said Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker at a press briefing in Hanoi on Friday afternoon.
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European commissioner Peter Mandelson on Sunday denied being involved in discussions over the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea as the Conservatives began to put pressure on the British government over ...
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Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot has been trying to defuse a row over a European Union statement on Russia&#39;s handling of the Beslan hostage crisis.
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Government has dismissed speculation that declaring its readiness to serve as a Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) could spark a diplomatic row with certain African countries.
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EU nations rejected a &quot;vague&quot; Turkish offer to ease a trade dispute with Cyprus and thereby stop the European Union discussing a partial freeze of Turkey's membership talks, officials said.
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The Socialist Group in the European Parliament (EP) on Thursday rejected a proposal by incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso designed to defuse a row over
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The European Commission reaffirmed its  attachment to media freedom on Tuesday when asked about a  Polish plan to investigate the Teletubbies children&#39;s  television show for allegedly promoting homosexuality.
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French energy group GDF disagrees with all of the complaints raised by the EU anti-trust regulator about its proposed merger with fellow French group Suez, GDF trade union representives told AFP.
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Officials in Brussels say the formal agenda of the monthly meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday will be largely dominated by issues involving sanctions.