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...GCAP is being developed at the same time as a rival Franco-German programme that has been plagued by political and industrial tensions between the partners....
...Keeping valuable things within Moldova is a message that seems to have been understood by at least one former EU official, previous European Council president Herman Van Rompuy....
...“They want to see if [the Baring Vostok partners] are going to get out,” said Emmanuel Quidet, chair of the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who attended the roundtable with Mr Putin....
...He also denies the charge that Belgian council presidents are Franco-German “puppets”....
...On the plus side, the blueprint did some early sketching out of a joint euro-area budget, or at least some form of “fiscal capacity,” an idea that is at the heart of current Franco-German discussions on...
...Still, Herman Van Rompuy, the former EU president, says that if Mr Macron makes progress, Germany should develop joint plans after its September parliamentary elections....
...His reluctance to open up trusts to full public scrutiny is made clear in a letter to Herman Van Rompuy, then the European Council president. You can read it here....
...Especially given the chill in EU-Russia relations, some analysts think it would highlight the Franco-German imbalance in defence spending, forcing Berlin to consider a more assertive role....
...The annual joint Franco-German government meeting also agreed on the first active overseas deployment of a joint Franco-German military brigade set up several years ago....
...Here’s where the Franco-British dispute could get interesting. As of now, the draft conclusions are pretty much what they were when first circulated nearly two weeks ago....
...from her victory in Germany’s parliamentary elections, and relishing her responsibilities as the pivotal decision maker in the eurozone crisis, there is a supremely well-qualified candidate to replace Herman...
...That experience will surely prove invaluable for Herman Van Rompuy, the first president of the EU Council, as he tries to stitch together a budget deal that allows 27 leaders, with competing demands, to...
...The budget proposal put forward by José Manuel Barroso already froze CAP spending in nominal terms, he said, and Herman Van Rompuy, the council president, wanted to cut it further....
...Before the three leaders met, Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, described patent reform a “difficult issue psychologically” but insisted a deal would be possible....
...In its citation, the Nobel committee recounted the contribution of the EU and its predecessor organisations to postwar Franco-German reconciliation; securing young democracies in Portugal, Spain and Greece...
...An increasingly strong Franco-Italian alliance, backed by the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund, has been urging quick steps to fight panic....
...A French move to use the Van Rompuy effort for more immediate crisis measures could exacerbate Franco-German tensions....
...Both ministers stressed that in spite of differences between them, Franco-German co-operation was essential in ensuring that Europe as a whole could make progress....
...Ms Merkel and Herman Van Rompuy, the EU president, objected to Mr Cameron’s initiative, saying it was a eurozone issue....
...EU president Herman Van Rompuy told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that the UK’s veto would complicate the task of implementing new, stricter fiscal rules, reports the WSJ....
...But one person wasn’t happy about it: Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini....
...“The markets will be watching very closely,” says Daniela Schwarzer, a specialist in Franco-German relations at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin....
...Behind closed doors, senior officials have had more detailed discussions about plans for creating a “core euro” as part of consultations with Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president who is preparing...
...European negotiators say momentum is building towards making a highly touted new treaty on budgetary discipline extremely narrow, enabling its smoother passage through national parliaments but hindering Franco-German...
...Bloomberg reports that with just four days before the summits that are supposed to announce a solution, there was Franco-German tensions appear to be persisting....
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