To some, routing the extra spending through an EU agency rather than putting it through the books of member governments smacked of creative accounting.
Annual inflation for the 12 nations using the euro fell from 1.7% in September, the EU Eurostat agency said.
Belgian pensions actually tend to be less generous than pensions in other European nations, according to data from Eurostat, the EU statistics agency.
Enthusiasm for strengthening Europol, a pan-EU police agency, and Eurojust, which brings together European public prosecutors, has been diminished, says a senior official.
Classic examples include a report by Nick Witney, a former head of the EU's defence procurement agency, pointing out that the problem with the EU is not that its member countries spend small sums on defence.
In June 2011 the EU anti-fraud agency Olaf said it had found no evidence of fraud on the part of Mr Zalba and closed its investigation into him.
Greece's debt figure shot up by 7.8% of GDP in 2010 when Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency, reclassified bus, railway and other public companies in the government accounts.
The EU's statistical agency Eurostat estimates that from 2011 to 2012, CO2 emissions increased by 3.9% in the UK. The rise is most likely to be due to increased coal burning.
Bulgaria has given the EU's police agency the names of two people it suspects of involvement in the bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a bus driver last July.
The refugee agency would like EU countries to live up to their promise to adopt a more coherent Europe-wide asylum policy, she says.
The FSA said it had submitted a "full file" on its horsemeat investigation to Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, with information being analysed in 35 countries in Europe and elsewhere.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee (on Thursday at 9.30am) investigates the pros and cons with witnesses from the Environment Agency, the EU Commission Environment Directorate-General, and Energy Minister Greg Barker.
The FSA said it has submitted a "full file" on its horsemeat investigation to Europol - the EU's law enforcement agency - and the information is being analysed in 35 countries, in Europe and elsewhere.
Havana's response came in a letter sent this month to the EU headquarters in Brussels, the agency reported.
The EU's anti-fraud agency, OLAF, has complained loudly and crossly about the near-total lack of co-operation from its Bulgarian counterparts.
The consultation conducted by Defra and the Food Standards Agency is looking at EU powers over animal health, animal welfare and food safety.
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The suspects' names were put into Europol's database to find out whether they had been to other EU member states, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.
The Fitch credit rating agency Wednesday warned about a deteriorating EU debt crisis.
In Operation Delego the US authorities co-operated closely with EU crime-fighters, including the justice agency Eurojust and police agency Europol.
Greece has become the major entry point into the EU for illegal migrants and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has complained that Greek reception centres are inadequate.
First is the importance of EU membership to people who yearn for some agency of economic progress, and their distrust of local politicians like Srdoc who take a more cautious view of the benefits versus the risks of EU membership.
Bulgaria has also established a new national-security agency, with staff vetted by the EU, to handle cases of high-level corruption in the state administration.
Frontex, a Warsaw-based agency created in 2004 to manage the EU's external borders, will open a pilot office in the Greek port of Piraeus in October.
After the recent debacle in Greece, the latest EU debt crisis issue is Portugal, amid fresh credit agency rating downgrades and warnings.
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In fact, in 2004, EU members agreed to the creation of the European Defense Agency that was then charged with implementing this agreement.
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The agency borrows boats, planes and personnel from EU member states.
Turkey objects to this because of a Greek and Cypriot block on its own participation in EU military planning, and on its putative membership of the European Defence Agency.
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Now the agency faces a rush to meet the 30 June deadline set by the EU for issuing 96% of last year's payments.
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Labour says the cap, which was introduced recently, will only cover 20% of non-EU migrants and the government is cutting 5, 000 staff at the UK Border Agency.
An unconfirmed report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) indicated it was the result of a European Union (EU) directive.
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