That is needed to trigger 10bn euros in rescue loans from the EU and IMF.
Stilton cheese gained a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) from the EU in 1996.
Their fate is being decided elsewhere, by unelected officials from the EU or the IMF.
The tax is a condition for Cyprus to get a loan from the EU and IMF.
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And the weak economic data from the EU raises fears that bloc could slip into recession.
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Traders are awaiting results from the EU Greek debt summit that will conclude Thursday.
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It receives money from the EU and the World Bank and separate European governments.
The money will come from the EU's cohesions funds, which are used to help poorer regions of the union.
UKIP, which wants the UK to withdraw from the EU, came second in June's European elections, taking 13 seats.
The argument that rejection from the EU sent Turkey towards Islamism is an old one in foreign policy circles.
There was some good news for environmentalists from the EU heads of government.
From the EU Mr Maroni sought another deal to allow him to dispatch migrants, but in the opposite direction.
Inspectors from the EU, IMF and European Central Bank, known as the troika, are due in Greece this week.
One idea is to have a new treaty only among the 17 euro-zone countries, separate from the EU's treaties.
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Rangan also notes that the company gets about 40% of revenues from the EU, where he sees ongoing macro risk.
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Admissions body Ucas said the number of non-EU applicants had risen 24.7%, with applications from the EU going up 6%.
The budget needs to be passed in order for funds to be released from the EU-IMF bail-out package for Ireland.
Some want the UK to claw back powers from the EU while others are seeking a referendum on the UK's membership.
The EU has announced that more than 420m from the EU budget will be spent to help the recovery process.
So said David Cameron en route from the EU summit in Brussels to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Perth.
Greece has apparently secured its next round of bailout money from the EU, but some paper work still needs to be signed.
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Spain has yet to formally ask for a fresh bailout package from the EU, to the consternation of many Euro currency bulls.
The safe-haven gold market has and will likely continue to garner at least some underlying investment demand from the EU debt crisis.
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We look forward to completing our offer for Aer Lingus subject to receiving approval from the EU competition authorities in early March.
Portugal's caretaker prime minister Jose Socrates says he has reached agreement on a bail-out from the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
But if a criminal forces a victim already inside the UK or from the EU into servitude, they cannot be prosecuted for trafficking.
It is misleading considering the number of vehicles imported from the EU to Korea increased more than ten times in the last decade.
"The US is the most important partner for Germany, apart from the EU, " said Karsten Voigt, the German-American co-ordinator at the German foreign ministry.
Recent data from the EU's statistical organisation, Eurostat, suggests that in 2009, 3 million people immigrated into the EU, compared with 1.9 million emigrants.
With 1.37 million square miles of ocean holdings, Kiribati has been vulnerable to overtures from the EU to sign a separate, less-stringent access pact.
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