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Commission calls on France to remove implicit unlimited state guarantee for SNCF - Three other countries in firing line

Brussels, 31/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has given some clarification on the letter it sent the French government on 11 February 2010, in which it asked to be informed, within two months, of the action the French government intended to take to remove the implicit unlimited state guarantee which, the Commission held, French National Railways (SNCF) would enjoy as an “EPIC” (Industrial and Commercial Public Establishment). In the letter, which was revealed by French...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Financial crisis: a few unorthodox remarks made by a non-specialist observer
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/ISRAEL/HUMANITARIAN AID: EU condemns deadly assault against international peace flotilla sailing to Gaza and calls for unconditional lifting of blockade and inquiry
(EU) EU/BALKANS: Ministerial conference in Sarajevo to confirm region's European prospects but also to encourage reform
(EU) EU/NON-PROLIFERATION:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/TELECOMS COUNCIL: Ministers back Commission's ambitious digital strategy for Europe
(EU) EU/TELECOMS COUNCIL: Moving towards code of digital consumer rights
(EU) EU/ENERGY COUNCIL: Commission highlights slow response to modern energy challenges
(EU) EU/INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: No changes to EU patent language system during Spanish Presidency
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: UEAPME deplores Small Business Act's broken promises
(EU) EU/TAXATION:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Recommendations from high-level group on milk and dairy products
(EU) EU/ANIMAL HEALTH:
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Green light to opening negotiations on renewing bilateral fisheries agreement with Seychelles
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission calls on France to remove implicit unlimited state guarantee for SNCF - Three other countries in firing line
(EU) EU/JHA: G6 ministers pledge to step up action against illegal immigration and organised crime
(EU) EU/JHA: Stricter rules on arms trafficking
(EU) EU/JHA: SIS II launch postponed once more
(EU) EU/JHA: EU enhances cooperation with Russia
(EU) EU/JHA: Spanish Presidency hails agreement on interpretation in criminal proceedings
(EU) EU/JHA: Germany to take in Guantanamo detainees
(EU) EU/REGIONS: Europe's outermost regions call for more flexibility in managing European aid and more support from EU
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: French presidency and Marseilles mobilise to counter pervasive pessimism following UfM summit postponement
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Creation of economic “network of networks” in Euro-Mediterranean area with Gulf countries
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main acts published in Official Journal of EU
(EU) EU/SOUTH-EAST HUNGARY:
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(EU) EU/WESTERN BALKANS:
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