Just as Dortmund was cementing its place as a serious contender on the European stage, Bayern Munich stepped in.
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Even so, he has warned that they are unlikely to be of a standard to improve the club's fortunes on the European stage.
The mood at Blues could not be more contrasting, coach Dai Young having battled through some troubled times to re-establish the Cardiff side as major players on the European stage.
Christian Waldhoff, an expert for constitutional law at Bonn University, said "the rights of the German parliament have been strengthened but without tying the hands of the German government on the European stage".
Firstly, that as a domestic leader, he is a miserable failure, but that in contrast, he is something of a titanic figure on the European stage, after a magnificent six months in charge of the rotating EU presidency.
But on the European stage there has been no sign of that stuttering form and after their opening two group stage wins against PSV Eindhoven and Marseille, Forlan says Atletico will go all out for victory on Wednesday.
But critics say Galileo is more about the projection of European political power and prestige on the global stage, than any hard commercial benefits.
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Each European nation on its own is fairly small, but the European Union has a huge presence on the global stage.
On the European Tour, England's Graeme Storm lead at the halfway stage of the KLM Open at Hilversum Friday, carding a second round 66.
Injury prevented Lennon from taking part in the penalties win over Celtic at Ibrox, but he did star on arguably a bigger stage, as the club embarked on their first and only European adventure.
In the first of the film's dizzyingly orchestrated cat-and-mouse sequences, Bourne steals the reporter out from under a thousand virtual Agency eyes and ears in London's Waterloo Station. (Tip for the terrorists: to avoid detection, when all else fails, tie your shoelaces.) The hack doesn't make it, but Bourne is nothing if not elusive, and it's on to the next stage in his whirlwind European tour.
European officials have long pursued influence on the world stage.
But unlike Bleustein-Blanchet, who was apparently content running a European agency, Levy wanted to play on the global stage.
But unlike Bleustein-Blanchet, who was apparently content with running a European agency, Lvy wanted to play on the global stage.
Meanwhile, Richard Sterne of South Africa has a slender one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic on the European Tour.
Britain should eventually stage an in-or-out referendum on membership of the European Union, one of Labour's shadow cabinet has said.
On Sunday NBC commentators were left to speculate how the U.S. team which looked better on paper could collapse in such grand fashion (or how the European team could stage one of the greatest comebacks in Ryder Cup history).
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That means compared with their U.S. counterparts, European entrepreneurs have to survive on roughly half as much capital, at the most crucial stage of a startup's existence.
Brown, who has rapped on some of his songs, was bold when he hit the stage: He started with the European-flavored "Beautiful People, " where he was backed with futuristic dancers and Auto-Tune.
It lost out on the English Premier League title to its local rival, Manchester City, on the last day of the season, and failed to qualify from the group stage of the European Champions League.
The struggle will determine whether European corporations will have access to the capital and skills they need to continue to compete on the global stage.
Lagarde was able to exercise more autonomy on the international stage, where she used the global experience of her Baker years to act as a mediator during the European debt crisis.
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