In coastal areas like Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a town in the south near Cádiz, as fishermen struggle to repay the mortgages on their vessels, many say they resent that bloc policies distorted their financial incentives and then left them high and dry once Spain's economic crisis hit.
The bloc's policy has come under fire; a former adviser to Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, said the EU "is in disarray because of its inconsistent policies".An Italian judge has suspended the trial of former CIA agents and Italian spies accused of kidnapping a terrorist suspect and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.
Mr Cameron wants cuts to business regulation, protection for the non-eurozone single market, and a UK opt-out from the bloc's policy of "ever closer union".
As if to underline the challenge, the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday rejected E.U. efforts to give greater roles there for Mr. Van Rompuy and the bloc's policy chief, Catherine Ashton.
China has focused on trying to turn the S.C.O. from a security-focused organization into an economic bloc, a policy predicated on the knock-on effect that a stable and prosperous Central Asia would have on China's underdeveloped Xinjiang Province.
Another European Union official, who, in accordance with the bloc's policy on background briefings, spoke only if not identified by name, said some companies that regularly use the system had acknowledged that their employees could be implicated in the thefts.
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders agreed Friday on a timetable for overhauling the bloc's policy on migration and asylum just hours after the scale and urgency of the challenge were brought into stark focus by the rescue of more than 700 refugees overnight near Sicily.
And the European Commission, the bloc's policy-making arm, warned this month of deepening economic imbalances between the richer north and the crisis-ridden south.
BRUSSELS — Jeered by angry protesters demanding an end to austerity and shaken by a resounding rejection of their economic strategy from Italian voters, European leaders gathered for an economic summit meeting Thursday amid few signs that the bloc's policies were healing the twin blights of rising unemployment and recession.
The European Commission, the bloc's policy-making arm, still needs to draft the final legislation, and the 11 states in favor of the law will have to give their unanimous approval before it becomes law — two more than the minimum required for legislation to be drafted.
