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...Diego Ramos Rodríguez’s score also evokes the best of thrillers past....
...Indeed, no communiqué has even been circulated among national delegations, so the dinner is likely to wrap with only a press statement from Herman Van Rompuy, the evening’s host....
...He was speaking after a meeting in Madrid with Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council....
...However, according to the draft conclusions sent to governments on Thursday by Herman Van Rompuy, the EU’s president, EU leaders will agree “concrete proposals” by next month so that the fund will have “...
...In a joint letter the two countries’ prime ministers – Silvio Berlusconi and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – accused the 10 states of being overly hasty....
...The arrival of Herman Van Rompuy and Lady Ashton as the EU’s president and foreign affairs chief respectively meant that Spain was obliged to hand over the helm on the two most visible issues: the handling...
...Herman Van Rompuy, EU president, said after the summit that the test results would be published in the second half of July....
...What about the various proposals on macroeconomic surveillance, including that of the task force chaired by Herman van Rompuy, president of the European Council?...
...Along with José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, this pair would presumably have been in Madrid to greet Obama....
...Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union’s first full-time president, is getting down to business. Hitting the ground running? Not exactly....
...back seat while Herman Van Rompuy and Lady Ashton, the two new EU supremos, built up their offices....
...EU heads of governments are due to discuss the 2020 strategy at an extraordinary summit that Herman Van Rompuy, EU president, has called for February 11....
...Spain’s presidency is the first under the Lisbon treaty, which is meant to downgrade the role of national presidencies in favour of a new, full-time president, the Belgian Herman Van Rompuy....
...The EU now has its first full-time president, Belgium’s Herman Van Rompuy, and a new foreign policy supremo, the UK’s Lady Ashton....
...The hurried climbdown, announced by Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spanish foreign minister, followed criticism from Rainer Brüderle, the German economy minister, and a comment from Herman Van Rompuy, the EU’s...
...Thank God for José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister....
...As Herman Van Rompuy, the EU’s new full-time president, puts it, the vaunted European social model is unsustainable without higher economic growth and less wasteful public expenditure....
...But Spain’s six-month presidency has been overshadowed by the EU’s adoption of its Lisbon Treaty, which puts greater powers in the hands of a full-time president, currently Belgium’s Herman Van Rompuy, and...
...But he carefully prepared the initiative, discussing it before Christmas with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s premier, and other leaders....
...The British campaign suffered another blow when José Luis Rodríguez, Spain’s prime minister, and José Sócrates, his Portuguese counterpart, indicated that they did not support Mr Blair....
...About four, to judge from the speed with which Germany and the UK have shot down a proposal from José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, to introduce binding mechanisms to enforce economic...
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s socialist premier, leads a minority government that cobbles together deals with small parties, such as moderate Basque and Catalan nationalists, to stay in power....
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, consulted colleagues and reported back to Mr Brown they wanted a woman: the consensus was for Lady Ashton....
...It made William Forsythe’s spirited Herman Scherman pas de deux, which followed, look like a prim essay in classical dance....
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