• The treaty - formally passed at the end of 2009 - created the position of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs to oversee the EU's foreign affairs responsibilities.

    BBC: Security and Defence Committee

  • But Guilfoyle, who set the deadline after warning that the club could not be financed after the end of the season, is now confident of a positive resolution to affairs off the field at least.

    BBC: Crystal Palace in talks with potential new owners

  • This may offend Labour's devolution purists, who insist that the whole point of the exercise is to end the Westminster parliament's interference in Scottish affairs.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish devolution

  • The behind-the-scenes turmoil at Grace Road first came into the public domain when chief executive David Smith resigned at the end of June, citing the reason as Davidson's interference in team affairs.

    BBC: Leicestershire chairman Neil Davidson refuses to resign

  • In the case of Greece, the EU's commissioner for economic affairs, Olli Rehn, recently said "by the end of this year, all of the competitiveness loss experienced by Greece between 2001 and 2009, relative to the rest of the euro area, will have been recouped".

    BBC: Eurozone: A very overcast outlook

  • Not since the end of the Cold War has the world seen such a degree of transformation in global affairs.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on US-EU Summit with Herman Van Rompuy and President Jos�� Manuel Barroso | The White House

  • The Tories, according to Mark Oaten, the Lib Dems' slick home affairs spokesman, have been left behind by changes in society the end of deference, the decline of organised religion, the rise of multi-ethnic cities and so on which they are powerless to influence.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • He said the government was considering the judge's decision and Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones would provide a written statement on the mater by the end of the week.

    BBC: First Minister's questions

  • The end of the cold war and its membership, since 1995, of the European Union have brought Sweden into European security affairs.

    ECONOMIST: Sweden's neutrality

  • There are flashpoints on the periphery (an Iran or Iraq gathering weapons of mass destruction), but the end of the cold war has made the Arab-Israeli conflict far less likely to cause a big explosion in world affairs.

    ECONOMIST: Israel at 50

  • Senator Freddie Cohen was appointed Assistant Minister with special responsibility for foreign affairs by the Chief Minister at the end of 2010.

    BBC: Jersey's foreign minister role criticised

  • "All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs, " reflected the Conservative politician Enoch Powell.

    BBC: Miliband joins list of political 'nearly men'

  • These pushcart affairs can be found anywhere - at the east end of the backpacker ghetto on Lebuh Chulia, in the Red Garden center behind the Hotel Continental, on the seafront esplanade.

    BBC: Penang: Malaysia in miniature

  • The contribution reflects Germany's ambition, 56 years after the end of World War Two, to take a more prominent role in world affairs that matches its economic might.

    CNN: German troops to join terror war

  • Mr Holbrooke was drafted to end the Bosnian war in his capacity as America's assistant secretary of state for European affairs.

    ECONOMIST: Peace-making in Bosnia

  • "To end up back in this country without an expedition on the horizon is a deadly state of affairs, " he said.

    BBC: The explorer who refuses to grow old

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