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The prime ministers of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are to meet on Friday to seek a common position of defiance towards the pressure from Berlin and Brussels, especially on the question of obligatory quotas.

They are considering giving more force to their code of conduct on arms sales (which is politically rather than legally binding), by making it formally a "common position" of the EU.

NORMAN is actively contributing to this process, helping the construction of a common position of the European experts on the use of bioassays in the regulatory framework of the WFD and, more recently, in the drafting of the EU policy instrument for Water Reuse.

A: UNICEF has spearheaded a common position of all health development partners on user fees: Ensuring the unconditional implementation of the existing policy of free services for under-five children and pregnant women.

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa said healthcare, education, defence, domestic security and universities were the main areas for reform, and with liberalisation the economy could achieve "much more" than last year's 2% growth in GDP.The European Union has failed to find a common position on the future of Kosovo.

He is pleased to be part of a common position on Palestinian statehood.

Reprints Related items Wanted: new rules of the roadJun 7th 2001 Economics focus: Still brokenJun 7th 2001In the approach to the Gothenburg meeting, the Spaniards were threatening to prevent the EU from adopting a common position on the free movement of labour in an enlarged EU unless they got guarantees about regional aid.

Reprints Related items Canada's relations with the United States: Stop, border aheadMay 28th 2009Talk of setting a common position on climate change looks ambitious.

The three also stopped short of reaching a common position on membership in the World Trade Organization, something Russia as an individual country has been trying to negotiate since shortly after the Soviet collapse in 1991.

But if we cannot get a common position out of the European Union, we are open to the possibility of the UK acting unilaterally".

"I commend all those whose efforts have made this possible... they kept the future of Kenya always in their sights and reached a common position for the good of the nation".