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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10029

28 November 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council
EU to scrap visa requirements for three Balkan States

Brussels, 27/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - At the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council in Brussels on Monday 30 November and Tuesday 1 December, the European Union will scrap the short-stay visa requirements for people holding a passport from Serbia, Montenegro or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) who wish to travel to the EU. The ministers' meeting will be unusual in that the first day (on Home Affairs) will take place under the Nice Treaty and the second (Justice) on the day...

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(EU) EP/VIETNAM: Parliament criticises repression in Vietnam
(EU) EP/LAOS: Laos must put its money where its mouth is on human rights
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(EU) EU/TUNISIA: Human rights associations criticise Commission
(EU) EU/EUROMED: Civil society forum next March in Barcelona
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE/MEDITERRANEAN: Inter-cultural dialogue
(EU) EU/CROATIA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/CHINA: Nanjing summit focuses on climate and yuan
(EU) EU/WTO/DOHA: 7th WTO ministerial conference will seek to take Round forward, with view to 2010 agreement
(EU) EU/AUDIOVISUAL: Member states back French proposal on setting up committee of wise to settle problems related to digitisation of cultural works
(EU) EU/CULTURE COUNCIL: European Year of Volunteering 2011 given go-ahead
(EU) EU/CULTURE: Council recognises need to develop children's creativity and recommends better media education
(EU) EU/YOUTH: Council adopts recommendation on new, more ambitious European cooperation framework
(EU) EU/MULTILINGUALISM: Turnover in languages sector set to increase by at least 10% annually in EU, report says
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Ministers to discuss macroeconomics of financial supervision and good fiscal governance
(EU) EU/JHA Council: EU to scrap visa requirements for three Balkan States
(EU) EU/EMPLOYMENT: Lisbon II, parental leave, equality of treatment between self-employed men and women, tackling discrimination on Council agenda
(EU) EP/WOMEN's RIGHTS: EP calls for clear rules to help tackle violence against women
(EU) EP/SOCIAL AFFAIRS:
(EU) EP/FOOD SECURITY: Parliament says common agricultural policy must remain cornerstone of food security
(EU) EP/SMOKING: While recommending more effective anti-smoking efforts, Parliament tries to maintain certain economic interests
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Airlines from Djibouti and Congo banned from European airspace
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Poland warned about application of asymmetric termination rates in favour of P4
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Second call for proposals in innovative medicines initiative
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Formal proposal on denunciation of EU-Guinea Agreement
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Spirits continue to lift a little
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main acts published in EU Official Journal
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