There are several states which believe that some measures, currently operated at EU level, could be returned to national governments.
"I think these cases which were widely reported clearly demonstrate weaknesses in the corporate taxation situation internally and at EU level, " said EU Tax Commissioner Algirdas Semeta.
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said he wants Wednesday's meeting in Brussels to discuss "whatever steps may be necessary at EU level to comprehensively address this matter".
The current rules mean that any crop that's approved at EU level can be grown anywhere in the Union unless countries have specific scientific reasons for blocking it.
The Greens held on to third place in Germany, but at EU level the movement remains limited by its internal incoherence: some Euro-Greens are quasi-liberals, others are allied with the extreme left.
The directive was first adopted at EU-level in 1993, though the UK did not implement it until 1998.
There has been tension between MEPs supporting the "Community method" of deals being done at an EU level, and those who support the "intergovernmental method" of decisions being taken by national governments.
We know that regulation is costly, can take years and is often only determined at an EU-wide level anyway.
Negotiations must begin at both the EU and OECD level to obtain new rules on the allocation of taxation power and change bilateral tax treaties.
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As the European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia approaches the second half of his time in office, in spite of the continuing economic crisis, practitioners expect no softening for antitrust enforcement at the European Union (EU) level.
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The EU employment level was reported at the lowest number of workers in seven years during the fourth quarter of 2012.
MEPs from centre-left, centre-right and the centre reliably favour action at the European level, a bigger EU budget, more public spending, more EU regulation and generally grabbing power from national governments and the commission.
The Agriculture Committee has already published a report saying that funding for the CAP after 2013 should be "at least maintained" and kept on an EU level, rather than being returned to national governments.
Fisheries, which are commercial fish catching areas, will still be subject to EU law but decisions will be able to be taken at a regional level.
EU's much-flouted principle of subsidiarity (acting at the lowest level of government).
But that is the level of intellectual discourse among our Lords and Masters in the EU at present: poor us.
Organised by conservation groups IUCN and Birdlife, the high-level debate at the European Parliament in Brussels will consider measures that could be taken within the EU policy framework to mitigate the present and future threats from invasive alien species.
In a review of global discarding, the UN noted that the north-east Atlantic had the highest discard level in the world, estimated at 1.3 million tonnes - the majority attributed to the EU. The Commission estimates that 23% of all fish caught by EU vessels are discarded.
The German foreign minister went out of his way to say that he hoped the UK would continue to play an "active" and "constructive" role in the EU. He offered a concession: he agreed that not everything decided in Brussels needed to remain at a European level.
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