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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha

EU puts robust counter-drug policy in place

Brussels, 09/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - At their last meeting on Thursday 3 June, EU home ministers adopted a European pact to combat international drug trafficking. Presented by the French minister of the interior, Brice Hortefeux, the document aims to place in common not only the means but also the measures taken by the EU27 to disrupt heroin and cocaine trafficking routes. In under five years, West Africa has become the preferred transit area for cocaine from Latin America (30-40% of...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Euro-Mediterranean cooperation both necessary and possible but should be relaunched on efficient basis
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/POLAND: Commission and Warsaw agree on priorities of Polish EU Presidency (second half of 2011)
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Prospect of opening 13th chapter in membership talks by end of month
(EU) EU/TURKEY/ISRAEL: Egemen Bagis floats idea of NATO or EU intervention to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/BIOFUEL: Towards new rules to ensure sustainability
(EU) EP/EUROPEAN ENERGY COMMUNITY: European Parliament and national parliaments want faster application of common rules
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Commission advances options for modernising education and vocational training
(EU) EU/DIGITAL: European Commission welcomes launch of supercomputing infrastructure for European researchers
(EU) EU/DIGITAL: Report highlights progress on child safety made by mobile industry
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Commission has doubts over Bulgarian statistics for 2009
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: France and Germany want EU to make faster progress on short-selling and speculation on sovereign debt
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: SEPA bank transfers to be compulsory by 2012
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: Local and regional authorities will shoulder their responsibilities for European integration - Backing for report by Felipe González Reflection Group
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: Mercedes Bresso re-elected President
(EU) EP/REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou reports calls for more flexibility in granting funding to disadvantaged regions
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Blue fin tuna fishing closed early
(EU) EP/FISHERIES: Next week EP will urge greater aquaculture competitiveness
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/JHA: EU puts robust counter-drug policy in place
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission orders recovery of €112 million from MOL in Hungary
(EU) EU/STATE AID/ITALY: Fiat Powertrain investment project gets go-ahead
(EU) EP/TRADE: European Parliament consults industry on future regulation on marks of origin for products imported into EU
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: Council agrees on minimum size for food labels- EP vote on 15 June
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Details of Council compromise on patient rights to payment of healthcare in other EU countries
(EU) EU/HEALTHCARE: Council recommends that people eat less salt
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: General Court overturns Commission decision refusing to send institution documents relating to procedure on company merger
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Advocate General's opinion on “imperative grounds of public security” in case of deportation of EU citizen from Germany
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Meeting of Mediterranean organic farming experts in preparation for new Community rules
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main acts published in Official Journal of EU
(EU) EU/EIB: Loan for modernisation of schools in Serbia
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