Mr Cameron discussed the eurozone situation with Mr Hollande, Mrs Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and EU officials in a conference call ahead of the forthcoming G8 summit in the United States.
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There were reports Friday that EU officials are preparing a plan in case they are forced to kick Greece out of the EU. Spanish and Italian bond yields were above 6% most of the week, which is also stressing the EU financial system.
She attended a meeting of EU officials from countries affected in Brussels, which had been called by the Republic of Ireland which currently holds the EU presidency.
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Research published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology in 2010 highlighted this risk, and EU officials warned last year about serious problems in verifying whether horses killed in Mexico were drug-free.
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When the French and Dutch voted against the EU constitution in 2005, Brussels officials muttered that it was nonsense to put the complex legalese of an EU treaty to ordinary people.
Just look at the recent agreements between the French and German leaders, say officials in other EU countries.
As ever, foreign affairs issues are likely to occupy much time at the summit, and Berlusconi -- who has just returned from Saudi Arabia -- will be calling for backing for the Saudi Middle East peace plan, seen by some EU officials as the only game in town at present.
The EU officials conceded the package was, in effect, a structure or box and the contents were yet to be clearly defined.
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Officials in Brussels say EU rules allow neither the setting of a minimum income nor the expulsion of undesirables from one member to another, save in very restricted cases.
Chinese officials will meet with their EU counterparts in Japan for the annual IMF and World Bank meetings this week.
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The doubts about the whole austerity strategy - made in Germany and policed by EU officials - are openly expressed.
That, at any rate, is the view of Tunisia's bravest human-rights campaigners who, earlier this summer, badgered officials in Spain, which then held the EU's rotating presidency.
But Milica Delevic, director of Serbia's European integration office, points out that, with Serbia blocked by the Mladic affair, it is becoming harder either to motivate officials or to maintain popular enthusiasm for the EU in a country that has been hearing the mantra of Europe ever since the fall of Milosevic in 2000.
European Central Bank officials said Friday that strains on the EU banking system have eased in recent months, but said more work needs to be done in the coming months.
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U.S. and EU officials have said Iran hasn't formally responded to a request in October to return to talks with the international community, represented by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.
This is obviously a very serious event, but with 2 senior representatives on the panels, it is also a lobbying opportunity for the company "Total", the corporate co-organiser of the event, putting it in touch with the EU Development Commissioner, high EU officials, MEPs, etc.
While U.S. economic data has been weak recently, which is U.S. dollar-bearish, the one factor that could work to support the dollar and pressure the Euro currency in the near term would be a significant deterioration in the EU sovereign debt situation that EU and IMF officials are working hard to contain.
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Palestinian officials said EU Middle East peace envoy Miguel Moratinos would visit the militants in the Flamingo Beach hotel on Saturday.
The uncertainty surrounding the latest efforts by European officials to solve the EU debt and financial crisis have limited buying interest in the precious metals this week.
The uncertainty surrounding the latest efforts by European officials to solve the EU debt and financial crisis have been limiting buying interest in the precious metals this week.
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Rates of migration westwards from the new members of the EU, in 2004 and since, far exceeded the expectations of most experts and officials.
The plan proposes that European officials and diplomats should be involved in monitoring implementation of laws, managing EU funds and supervising courts, prosecutors and investigators.
The UK faces a "big battle" in the EU institutions over rules governing access to benefits, accusing EU officials of trying to "take control" of policies previously left to member states.
Speaking in New York before a new round of talks with UN officials on ways of resolving the Cyprus issue, Mr Denktash said the EU summit in Helsinki made a wrong decision because of what he described as Greek blackmailing.
And that, in a phrase, reveals the big gulf between Britain and so many EU officials.
Officials are attempting to turn the page on the sovereign crisis the EU has been embroiled in for the past 3 years, and which has been eating away banking profits and confidence in the wider European banking sector.
As well as providing new internet space, officials in Brussels hope the new domain name will help promote the identity of the EU itself on the electronic media.
Early next week the EU debt crisis will be in keener focus, as there is a meeting of Euro zone officials next Tuesday on when to disburse the next tranche of bailout money to cash-starved Greece, and on what terms Greece will be held in order to receive the money.
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Google-owned Motorola Mobility abused its position in Germany's mobile market when it filed a patent injunction against Apple, EU officials have said.
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