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EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, shakes hands with China's vice President Xi Jinping, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.

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  1. EU leaders pose during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. Front row left to right, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Finland's President Tarja Halonen, Lithuania's Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias, Romania's President Traian Basescu, French President Nikolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
  2. EU leaders pose during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. Front row left to right, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Finland's President Tarja Halonen, Lithuania's Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias, Romania's President Traian Basescu, French President Nikolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
  3. EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, poses next to a Greenpeace installation, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  4. Spanish farmer Fernando Jose Llobell Bisbal, left, talks with EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  5. A Thai farmer hands over a petition to EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, right, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  6. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (L) holds the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Polish President Donald Tusk (2ndL), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (C), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR), President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  7. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (c) holds the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Polish President Donald Tusk (L), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (2ndL), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR), President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  8. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (c) holds the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Polish President Donald Tusk (L), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (2ndL), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR), President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  9. China's Vice President Xi Jinping (R) and Belgium's King Albert II (L) attend the "Son of Heaven" exhibition as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions celebrate the diversity of Chinese culture by hosting hundreds of events in the next months.
  10. China's Vice President Xi Jinping (L) and Belgium's King Albert II (R) attend the "Son of Heaven" exhibition as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions celebrate the diversity of Chinese culture by hosting hundreds of events in the next months.
  11. China's Vice President Xi Jinping (C) and King Albert II attend the "Son of Heaven" exhibition as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions celebrate the diversity of Chinese culture by hosting hundreds of events in the next months.
  12. Belgium's Queen Paola (L), China's Vice President Xi Jinping (C) and King Albert II attend the "Son of Heaven" exhibition as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions celebrate the diversity of Chinese culture by hosting hundreds of events in the next months.
  13. China's Vice President Xi Jinping (L) inaugurates the exhibition "Son of Heaven" as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions will celebrate the diversity of Chinese culture by hosting hundreds of events in the next months.
  14. China's Vice President Xi Jinping (L) and Belgium's King Albert II (R) inaugurate the exhibition "Son of Heaven" as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions will celebrate the diversity of Chinese culture by hosting hundreds of events in the next months.
  15. China's Vice President Xi Jinping (L) and Belgium's King Albert II (R) inaugurate the exhibition "Son of Heaven" as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions will celebrate the diversity of Chinese culture by hosting hundreds of events in the next months.
  16. China's Vice President Xi Jinping (L) chats with Belgium's King Albert II during an official dinner at the Royal castle of Laken, near Brussels, October 8, 2009. Xi Jinping is on a three-day official visit to Belgium.

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