Every year the European Commission assesses progress by would-be members of the European Union.

每年欧洲委员会都会对申请加入欧盟的国家取得的进展进行评估。

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The European Union won a promise that Russian gas supplies would resume, only for them to be cut off again; the European Commission spoke of taking legal action.

俄罗斯向欧盟承诺仅在天然气被再次掐断的情况下才恢复天然气的供应；欧盟则表示有可能采取法律行动。

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The European Commission has asked European Union countries to submit plans by the end of the year to improve living conditions for Roma people.

欧洲委员会要求欧盟各国在年底之前递交关于改善罗姆人生活条件的计划。

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But Professor Cengiz Aktar, head of European Union studies at Istanbul's Bachesehir University, says such reports from the commission are becoming just an academic exercise.

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In Brussels, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission - the European Union's executive branch - told reporters that aid the EU has already pledged must be delivered quickly.

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Amidst a series of downgrades to the euro zone economic forecasts by the European Commission, the governing body of the European Union on Wednesday actually raised its forecast for Poland's economic growth in 2008, to 5.4%, from 5.3%.

FORBES: Market Scan

Last month the Commission wrote to 24 of the European Union's 27 member states, spelling out how each is infringing European railway directives and threatening proceedings.

ECONOMIST: German railways

Also speaking were the representatives of China, Libya, Viet Nam, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Panama, Russian Federation, Japan (in his capacity and as Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission), Liechtenstein, Ghana, Slovenia (on behalf of the European Union), Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Israel, Iceland (also on behalf of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), Nigeria, Brazil, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, Ecuador, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Austria, Argentina, Colombia, United Republic of Tanzania, Germany, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Rwanda, Philippines, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Tonga (on behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Myanmar, Tunisia, Benin, Mauritania and San Marino.

UN: Security Council