Canada rejected the European Union's application for observer status due to a long-running dispute over seal hunting and a ban by Brussels's of seal products, such as hide.
As she arrived for Thursday's meeting in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it would take time to make an agreement with the EU that did not shut out some NATO allies.
EU's Brussels-based negotiators sound pleased with Slovenia's progress towards membership.
The BBC's Matthew Price in Brussels says Europe's exasperation with Greece's economic woes is all too clear.
Undercooking presents a different set of challenges, keeping the Brussels sprout's flavors concentrated inside its veiny leaves and thick root.
Brussels prosecutor's spokeswoman Anja Bijnens said the thieves were masked and well armed, and used two black vehicles with police markings.
It is hard to enforce policies limiting state-aid without a member state's backing, says Stephen Kinsella, a lawyer in Herbert Smith's Brussels office.
He said UKIP should also be judged on its performance in May's local council elections and next year's Brussels elections - in which the party came second to the Conservatives in 2009 in terms of the popular vote.
Then, in early-morning raids Wednesday, some 250 Belgian police officers arrested 24 people in the Brussels area, said Anja Bijnens at the state prosecutor's office in Brussels.
WSJ: Police Detain Suspects in Brussels Airport Diamond Heist
Then, in early morning raids Wednesday, some 250 Belgian police officers arrested 24 people in the Brussels area, said Anja Bijnens at the state prosecutor's office in Brussels.
WSJ: Police Detain Suspects in Brussels Airport Diamond Heist
At the same time, by consistently refusing to permit Turkey to join the EU, despite Ankara's moves to placate its political correctness, Brussels discredited still further Turkey's secularists.
There is a sense of frustration across the eurozone that last week's summit in Brussels seems to have done little to calm the financial markets, the BBC's Chris Morris reports.
At Monday's meeting in Brussels, the foreign ministers are expected to consider nominating a German diplomat as the EU's special envoy to Afghanistan in a bid to give the bloc a higher profile as reconstruction efforts gather pace.
He fears cheap Brazilian sugar, decisions from Brussels and China's demand for steel, which is pushing freight rates higher.
Eurostar services were suspended at 0830 GMT after a Eurostar train travelling from Brussels to London's Kings Cross station was delayed for an hour inside a tunnel.
Mr Blair had been particularly annoyed, the spokesman said, because the government had been lobbying Brussels on BMW's behalf while the company was taking steps to dismember Rover.
And if we get as far as a "no" result, the usual response from Brussels (let's negotiate again, and find another form of words that the people might accept if we ask them again) is unlikely to withstand the markets' impatience and intolerance of political risk.
How to achieve that was the subject of some hard talking this week between Mr Xhaferi and Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign-policy spokesman, who has been shuttling between Brussels and Skopje, Macedonia's capital.
The BBC's Maddy Savage in Brussels says he will now be looking to build on the party's success in local elections to take on Belgium's socialist Prime Minister Elio di Rupo in national elections in 2014.
Ulster's game against Stade Francais in Brussels has been called off, and Northampton's clash with Treviso in northern Italy has been put back an hour until 1430 GMT.
The U.S. and EU have implemented progressively tougher economic sanctions on Iran in recent months, including an embargo on Tehran's oil exports, which Washington and Brussels believe are increasingly draining the government's finances.
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Kadima's leaders will have open invitations to travel to Washington and Brussels to delegitimize the Netanyahu government's policies toward the Palestinians and the Syrians, and more likely than not, they will use them.
Their staffs had little time to flesh out details before the next day's summit in Brussels.
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The Ukrainian pipped Farah to win the gold in last year's championship in Brussels.
Fourth, ending the Parliament's commute between Brussels and Strasbourg is just not complicated enough.
In the event, that has not stopped diplomats in Brussels carping about Austria's inexperience.
He has already had to postpone his plan to pull out of the centre-right European People's Party in Brussels.
Speaking recently in Brussels, the IMF's Nemat Shafik compared such a process of internal devaluation to painting a house.
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