Politicizing EU Competition Policy

Policy programme areas

II. STRATEGIC POLICY AREAS

The collateral damage for EU foreign policy is also significant.

policy programme areas in their reports

The greatest success of Europe s external policy has been EU enlargement.

And the development of EU military capacities and EU security policy is an important factor in European and global security.

To provide policy support in related areas.

The EU would appreciate being kept informed of developments in those areas.

Previously, EU policy was to isolate Belarus, which itself was seeking isolation.

This means that EU policy must be tailor made for individual countries.

EU environmental policy has thus become a core area of European politics.

But, as these institutions mature, a more coherent EU foreign policy should emerge.

Its policy of opting out keeps Britain on the sidelines of the EU.

Romania welcomes the recent confirmation of such a policy by the EU Council.

How much worse can things get before the EU abandons its counter productive policy?

No policy area better illustrates this EU preference for talk over action than Pakistan.

The EU accession process has also underpinned a shift in Turkish policy on Iraq.

The EU is diligently echoing the criminal policy of collective punishment imposed by Israel.

We urge policy and action in the following areas

4. The main strategic policy areas for development are

In other words, this strategy is compatible with EU accession only if the EU strengthens its own capacity for concerted action on foreign policy.

As an organ of the EU, the EIB should be pursuing an ethical investment policy.

The EU has been working for a decade on a common foreign and security policy.

EU accession remains a dominant policy goal for a number of countries in the subregion.

But this advantage does not extend to other policy areas.

The report identified those areas of public policy intervention where their impact in other areas is greatest

putting a stop to Moscow s divide and conquer politics by adopting a common EU energy  policy

For its part, the EU would have to reconsider, for example, its policy on GM foods.

putting a stop to Moscow s divide and conquer politics by adopting a common EU energy policy

The group could then extend cooperation to three other policy areas

United Nations policy making organs are mandating new areas for research.

It is clear that all areas of social policy affect families.

The EU urgently needs to build a common energy policy and a single market for natural gas.

And only a united EU can bring Russia on board for a harmonized policy towards the Balkans.

Rarely has a leadership change in one EU member state created expectations of a real policy shift.

She has so far visited Tunisia and Egypt without declaring an EU policy position that commanded attention.

The development of renewable energy sources should play a major part in any integrated EU energy policy.

The rest have strong and well established relationships with the EU, mostly through the European Neighbourhood Policy.

The National Health Policy now places a renewed emphasis on rural areas.

There are plenty of areas in which common action at the EU level is both appropriate and efficient.

But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.

First, the EU should work to Finlandize Ukraine, whose foreign policy, like Tito s, is now officially non aligned.

Such a policy would stop trade between Iran and the EU in its tracks, and Ahmadinejad knows it.

Similarly, EU competition policy has stood firm for many years against monopolies and abuse of dominant market positions.