But how would voters register their disapproval when Brussels had the right to dictate changes?
Prior to the mass resignation, Sir Leon had resolved to leave Brussels when the Santer commission was due to end its term in December.
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He says he especially doesn't like it when his mother makes Brussels sprouts for dinner.
The conflict has undermined EU-sponsored talks between Serbia and Kosovo, which looked promising when they began in Brussels in March.
The Balkans is at a critical stage, when negative signals from Brussels could seriously set back reforms and encourage nationalist and extremist forces.
When customs authorities in Brussels confiscated the biggest ever seizure of illegal medicines in Europe last year, it was anti-malaria pills headed for Africa that they intercepted, rather than lifestyle drugs.
It always felt, when you covered a Brussels summit, that Britain was there on sufferance, but the rules said otherwise: technically we were and are an equal member of a 27-nation union whose oft-explained "three pillars" of governance were applied for the common good.
Mr Cameron has been urged to spell out what powers he wants to claw back from Brussels and when negotiations on this might begin but he has appeared to rule out such a possibility in the short term and his Lib Dem coalition partners are wary of such a step.
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But when cooked just right, Brussels sprouts can delight the senses with their nutty, woodsy flavor.
When I eventually arrived at Brussels Midi, home of Eurostar, there was further confirmation of the chaos.
Thus, when President George Bush visits Brussels next month, his counterpart will be Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg.
In overnight news, the Tuesday meeting of Euro zone officials in Brussels, on when to disburse the next tranche of bailout money to Greece, failed to reach agreement.
When prime ministers gather in Brussels next week to try to sort it all out, David Cameron will be by no means the only one under pressure at home not to give an inch.
And while most traffic jams are a result of an accident or too many vehicles (or data packets in the case of the Internet) legitimately trying to get from place to place, they can also be slowed down deliberately, as happened in Brussels last September when about 100 trucks slowed traffic entering the city as part of a planned protest.
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It is this week when European leaders get together in Brussels to come up with a solution to the European sovereign debt crisis.
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The deal - when it emerged from a long Brussels night - may not have been the big bazooka that some had been calling for but it exceeded many expectations.
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But it stands to her credit that when, on her arrival in Brussels in 1995, she was handed responsibility for the fishing industry, she plunged with similar abandon into those dark and deep waters, where a number of her predecessors had virtually drowned and resurfaced still bubbling with enthusiasm, her reputation if anything enhanced.
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The 1961 event in Prague was cancelled after an American delegation was killed when their plane crashed on landing in Brussels.
Lord Howe said he made a speech in Brussels in March 1987, when he was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, in which he called for more European co-operation on defence.
Ministers must refuse expensive gifts and hospitality, they must travel by train when possible (as he did to Brussels on May 23rd) and their cars must respect traffic lights (a novelty for ministerial motorcades).
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In overnight trading, the European markets were quieter and are awaiting the results of yet another key meeting of Euro zone leaders in Brussels Monday, to decide when and how to disburse fresh bailout funds to cash-starved Greece.
Slogans such as "more muscles than Brussels" and "keep perky when you're feeling murky" were used.
What exactly did David Cameron veto when he found himself one against 26 in Brussels last year?
The affair has now become highly political: it was a topic of discussion when Silvio Berlusconi and Jacques Chirac met in Brussels this week.
The answer, thinks Mr Pujol, is plain: when topics affecting Catalonia are at issue in Brussels, let Catalan spokesmen be there, as such, albeit within the Spanish delegation.
But Brussels' enthusiasm for new recruits flags when it casts its eyes eastward.
When it comes to Greece, it seems that Brussels is less optimistic about whether any headway would be made.
And Mike, when we spoke with you yesterday, Rice was in Brussels talking with NATO leaders about Georgia.
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