The Portuguese, who took over the rotating European Union presidency on July 1st, are making better links with Africa a priority of their six-month presidency.
France, which holds the rotating European Union presidency until Thursday, had brought together foreign ministers in Paris to address the situation in Gaza and in southern Israel.
Both the French government, which currently holds the rotating European Union presidency, and the European Commission's transport directorate are pressing for strict laws to exclude old ships from European ports.
After all, in three months' time France will take on the European Union's rotating presidency.
Sarkozy undertook the role because he holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.
On July 1st the Swedes took over the rotating presidency of the European Union for six months.
But the rich, well-governed Czech Republic, which holds the European Union's rotating presidency, can surely do better.
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The junta insisted that the African Union, whose rotating presidency is currently held by Angola, supports intervention by Angolan forces.
Belgian ministers made a decent fist of their country's six-month rotating presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2010.
Mr Bush has also been in touch with, among others, leaders in Canada, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Denmark, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.
She also spoke with the foreign ministers of India, Britain, France, Germany and the Czech Republic, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, Wood said.
The first six months of this year, when Spain held the rotating presidency of the European Union, was supposed to be the moment when the prime minister could enjoy the limelight.
This group says that Pereira and Gomes signed the deal, and it accuses the African Union, whose rotating presidency is currently held by Angola, of also supporting intervention by Angolan forces.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, later in Jerusalem.
So too and at a time when France holds the rotating presidency of the European Union are his political counterparts in Europe, blaming him for the copycat tactics that have blocked their roads too.
In 2007 Germany assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union (for six months) and presided over the G8 summit of the world's biggest economies, allowing Ms Merkel to display a flair for statesmanship.
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On his own trip to Israel, Mr Cook did much banging of Europe's drum, reminding his hosts that on top of being Britain's foreign secretary he represented the country holding the rotating presidency of the European Union a person, in other words, to whom the Israelis had jolly well better pay attention.
But he or she is expected to chair EU summits, take on some of the functions of the current presidency of the Council of the European Union - held on a rotating six-month basis by EU heads of government - and represent the EU on common foreign and security policy.
EU's system of a rotating presidency, which allows each country a six-month stint at setting the Union's agenda and chairing its main council's meetings.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said it was "the most complete agreement that the European Union has yet signed with a third country".
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