These were things the long-running conference was explicitly meant to resolve, to enable an enlarged Union to function.

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Denbury, Union Inn function room, 1400 GMT to 1900 GMT, 10 December.

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Between now and then, the European Union will continue to function on the basis of the current treaties.

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Barring a radical change in the technological playing field, there will never be an effective cyber equivalent of the International Atomic Energy Agency despite all the aspirations of organizations like the International Telecommunications Union to serve such a function.

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The government files from the founding phase of the monetary union reveal that this construct cannot function.

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It was largely the function of now-obsolete trade union contracts and corporate structure.

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