Others don't like Europe's environmental policies so they want to pull out of bloc-wide agreements.

Trading in endangered plants or animals must also be punished bloc-wide.

It is also opposed to the early introduction of a bloc-wide bank deposit guarantee scheme.

More euro zone rumblings are in store for sure, but there's little to change the big, bloc-wide picture.

European Union leaders are aiming to agree on a bloc-wide mechanism for dealing with failing banks by the end of the year.

The European Union has bloc-wide ambitions to decarbonize the economy by the middle of the century.

Oettinger has called on member states to coordinate political capital with the aim of setting bloc-wide energy policies by 2014.

Oettinger told the European Parliament this week, however, that national projects were moving ahead of bloc-wide ambitions.

A separate bloc-wide stress test - to see if banks are prepared to deal with economic and financial shocks - will also be completed by October 2014.

Dutch lawmaker Jan Mulder said bloc-wide rules were needed in order to ensure access to potential precursors was restricted.

Semeta said a bloc-wide financial transaction tax would cut economic growth by a "negligible" 0.01pc annually and raise €10bn for a cash-strapped UK treasury.

He told a news conference after the meeting that some EU states wanted to give the market more time to provide total broadband coverage before any bloc-wide intervention.

The European Union's top executive on Tuesday refused to rule out a bloc-wide tax on its half-billion population, in remarks sure to raise eurosceptic hackles.

Here, too, there was bad news on Tuesday when the EU’s top court said draft plans for an bloc-wide patent court would not be compatible with European law.

The European Commission in September proposed a bloc-wide exoneration of VAT charges on such CO2 quotas.

EU finance ministers delayed agreeing tough new bloc-wide regulation of hedge funds on Tuesday after opposition from Britain, home to 80 percent of the industry in Europe.

In particular there was no standing shoulder-to-shoulder when it came to the bloc's wish to ink in December a bloc-wide deal on slashing greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

Lagarde gave little away in her interview, sidestepping a question on whether leaders from Eurogroup countries would opt for a bloc-wide rescue fund based on that of the United States.

He said it was too early to say if EU funds should be used and that bloc-wide proposals should not become an 'escalation or race in terms of public funding' or subsidy.

Elsewhere, Britain spiked European Commission plans for bloc-wide financial supervision, delaying proposed legislation setting up a European Systemic Risk Board until at least a December summit.

EU Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has proposed a more pan-European Union approach to managing freed up radio bands so they can be offered for bloc-wide mobile services.

The one in six Europeans with a disability should be able to cross EU borders carrying a single card offering bloc-wide entitlements from next year, the European Commission said Monday.

He says although the EU said the interests of all countries should be taken into account in implementing new bloc-wide banking rules, western national regulators are, in practice, tempted to put their own countries first.

They are in particular to demand "rapid progress" on legislative proposals for taxes on energy and savings, a bloc-wide corporate tax alternative for multinationals, a French-led financial transactions tax sought by nine states.

Germany opposed a decision by European Union agriculture ministers in March to allow a bloc-wide increase in production of two percent as part of a larger plan to phase out dairy subsidies by 2015.

The Van Rompuy proposals recommend central oversight through a European Union bank supervisor covering all financial institutions except insurance companies, and a blocwide deposit-insurance program to ensure that there is no run on banks in Greece or other troubled countries.