These organisations typically lobby for closer European integration, bigger EU budgets and more EU regulation.
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The EU delegation head told me even the EU's negotiating capacity was stretched to breaking.
But the EU Commission is now asking the EU's trading partners to do the same.
In other EU-related news overnight, reports said Spain has asked the EU for banking sector relief.
The Schengen zone covers 22 EU states and three non-EU countries - Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
An audit has found that EU-funded energy efficiency projects are not cost-effective in EU member states.
For we have an EU 15 number of 0.3 and an EU 27 number of 0.3.
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But the basic idea is to access EU markets without paying EU regulatory costs.
According to EU data, about 12 million animals are used in EU countries' lab experiments each year.
Following the vote, EU officials said that EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg would "consider the next step".
The European Union (EU) could still exist, just as as the EU is separate from the EZ.
The EU's first military initiative was driven by France and Britain, the EU's two major military powers.
The EU, by contrast, is methodically regulating sector by sector, starting with the creation of EU-wide supervisors.
The SPS does not operate in 10 EU countries, which joined the EU in 2004 and 2007.
The EU is threatening legal action against Sweden over a wolf hunt that allegedly breaches EU law.
MEPs were joined in the session by parliamentarians from national parliaments from EU and non-EU member states.
Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bagis said the EU assessment, published in October, was "one-sided and baseless".
He said some countries of the EU have levels of poverty not seen in the EU before.
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Ireland, which has benefited enormously from EU economic ties, turned down a treaty concerning EU expansion in a recent referendum.
Of course, this being EU law then exactly the same applies in all 27 of the EU countries.
Since 2004, EU membership and access to EU structural funds have provided a major boost to the economy.
All EU member states have been informed of the Dutch discovery, EU spokesman Frederic Vincent told the BBC.
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Turkey wants non-EU NATO members, such as itself, assured of closer participation than the EU aims to grant.
The EU Commission, which drafts EU laws, has called for an increase of 4.8% on the 2007-2013 budget.
If EU officials write off Greek debt, then other financially troubled EU countries would likely want the same.
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Those EU-membership benefits include tariff-free access to Europe's markets, plus EU development funding.
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The EU Commission, which drafts EU laws, has called for an increase of 4.8% compared with the 2007-2013 budget.
If EU officials write off too much Greek debt, then other financially troubled EU countries will want the same.
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Last month the EU extended a visa ban to over 200 people, and all EU countries withdrew their ambassadors.
Some EU leaders had pledged will take serious steps this week to get the EU debt crisis under control.
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