Sentences with phrase «european summit»

Top of the list will be the Prime Minister's report back on Monday, on the latest European summit, where the Brexit transitional deal and Britain's appeal for solidarity against Russia will both be discussed.

Ike Teuling, climate and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Netherlands, said: «It is ridiculous that the Netherlands, as President of the European Union, allows a European summit to be taken hostage by Shell.

Today, EU leaders gathered at a European summit on sustainable finance.

Bercow will this afternoon chair the Commons proceedings, which will include an exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron when the prime minister makes a statement on last week's European summit.

Blair told him on a small jet when they were returning from a European summit in early spring 2002 that the referendum has «got to be in this parliament».

McBride describes one occasion when Brown instructs him to leak at a European summit.

Below is a selection of prominent Lib Dems» reactions to David Cameron's veto at the European summit this week.

When David Cameron vetoed a motion to amend the Lisbon treaty at the 2011 European summit, Labour and the Liberal Democrats agreed with his rationale (which was defending the City) but attacked his modus operandi.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls gives his take on David Cameron's veto in last week's European summit in an interview with the Financial Times:

Cameron was received as a hero by Conservative MPs when he returned to the House of Commons to give his account of the European summit.

He made the pledge in the Commons this afternoon when taking questions about the recent European summit.

Budget talks have been in deadlock since the summer, but the government is keen to secure a deal at the European summit meeting later this month, and before the end of the UK presidency of the EU on December 31st.

Thanks to their Champions League triumph, their fifth in total, the club has re-established itself at the European summit, and at the club's AGM — an event where Wall Street met terrace celebration — executive board member Jan - Christian Dreesen had plenty of good news to convey, namely a record $ 432.8 million turnover for 2012 - 13 and profits after tax of $ 14m, up from $ 11m in the previous exercise.

England produced a masterclass performance to beat Brazil 3 - 1 in front of a shell - shocked crowd at the Salt Lake Stadium here last night to set up a first ever all - European summit clash on October 28 at the same venue.

Not exact matches

Padoan said European leaders will have a wide set of proposals to examine when they convene at the euro summit in June.

Global Citizen's latest European concert was held during the G - 20 summit in Hamburg in July, where leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared on stage in support of empowering women and girls in the fight for equality.

President Donald Tusk of the European Council said Tuesday the EU will adopt its guidelines for the Brexit talks at a summit on April 29th.

Speaking at the same summit, May had denied earlier Friday that the U.K. had increased its financial offer to the European Union as part of its steps to leave the bloc.

The European Union will agree on its common position for negotiations with the U.K. government at a summit on April 29.

«The European Council... decides that it is sufficient to move to the second phase related to transition and the framework for the future relationship,» EU leaders said Friday, following a two - day summit in Brussels.

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for the European Union leaders summit at the European Council on December 14, 2017 in Brussels.

This past January, at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Porat and Schmidt hosted a dinner for European leaders.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a news conference after the first day of a European Union summit, taking place after the Eurogroup meeting Thursday, that a deal was urgently needed.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks to journalists as he arrives for a emergency summit with European Union leaders in Brussels on Thursday, June 25, 2015.

The final statement of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, underlined that the other countries and the European Union supported the Paris climate agreement rejected by Trump.

European Union leaders have agreed on a common position to put to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a bid to curb the migration crisis, Luxembourg's premier said at a Brussels summit early Friday morning.

At a NATO summit in Wales in 2014, months after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, allies agreed to end years of defense cuts that left Europeans without vital capabilities, such as refueling airborne fighter bombers.

Optimism over last week's summit to shore up the European Union (EU) is fading, as evidenced by the December 12 retreat both in stocks and the euro.

Brexit Secretary David Davis held negotiations in Brussels on Monday, which will be followed by a Brussels summit on Thursday and Friday where Prime Minister Theresa May will meet — but not negotiate with — fellow European Union leaders.

Raising the pressure on Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras before a euro zone summit on Tuesday, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to keep a tight grip on funding to Greek banks.

The NATO summit in Brussels on May 25 will be a real test for European allies to demonstrate resolve toward gradually fulfilling the 2 percent spending target while balancing the president's expectations of quick results.

With President Trump's visit to Poland on his way to the July 2017 G20 summit, energy and infrastructure issues will likely be on the agenda as he meets with the leaders of the Three Seas Initiative, a collection of Central and Eastern European states working to increase connections between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas.

The adjustment of shares and voting rights in the IMF was brokered by Britain at a Group of 20 summit in 2010, and European countries ratified it long ago.

The debt deal, which came on Friday after about 19 similar summits since the start of the debt crisis (with few results), called for countries that use the euro to allows two European bailout funds to aid European banks directly, rather than make loans to governments to bail out the banks.

According to one person present at the summit, China's insistence on a reference that the European Union will eventually recognize China as an economy driven by the market, not the state, blocked the final 60 - point statement.

«We are convinced that yesterday's decision by the United States to leave the Paris agreement is a big mistake,» Tusk, who chairs EU summits as the head of the European Council, told a news conference with Li and the EU's chief executive Jean - Claude Juncker.

Euro - area finance ministers are gathering Wednesday in Brussels to prepare the ground for a European Union summit aimed at striking a deal with Greece on financial aid.

Obama urges continued economic support President Barack Obama wants his counterparts at the G20 summit to pledge continued «policy support» for the economic recovery, which could put the United States at odds with European governments that are headed in the opposite direction.

The dramatic developments overshadowed the G20 summit of world leaders in the French resort of Cannes, where President Barack Obama implored European leaders to swiftly work out a eurozone plan to deal with the continent's crisis, which threatens to push the world back into recession.

Greece's caretaker prime minister will convene a meeting of Cabinet members ahead of this week's summit of European Union leaders that's expected to look into spurring economic growth across the continent.

European leaders said at an emergency summit Monday in Brussels that Tsipras is finally getting serious after being criticized for lacking good faith in earlier talks.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras needs to shore up support at home for his plan, while euro - area finance ministers meet Wednesday to prepare the ground for a second, scheduled summit of European Union leaders Thursday.

European bond markets initially welcomed the deal made at the July summit, although the narrowing of spreads for peripheral bonds over German Bunds was relatively muted, perhaps signaling a measure of skepticism among investors about the ability of the eurozone to survive in the absence of a formal mechanism that ensures the sharing of liabilities among member states.

Further sanctions are expected to be a hot topic at a European Union (EU) summit on Thursday, with plans afoot to link sanctions to the full implementation of a Ukraine ceasefire, as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko are reported to have agreed Wednesday.

Prime Minister Theresa May has set a 31 March deadline for invoking Article 50, though there was much speculation this week centering around 9 March, as that date coincides with a European Council summit.

Later Wednesday, leaders of the 27 European Union countries will meet in Brussels for a summit expected to focus on ways to kick start the region's faltering economy.

With the clock ticking toward a June 30 deadline both for the expiry of the European portion of Greece's bailout and payments to the International Monetary Fund, euro - area leaders at a summit in Brussels late Monday stressed that more work needs to be done.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has asked the European Council President, Donald Tusk, on Tuesday to organize a special meeting with top European leaders on the sidelines of the regular EU summit scheduled on Thursday, governmental sources told Efe.

Expectations for the European Union summit that starts Thursday are low.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.