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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10556
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SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) regions

State aid - Islands call for greater flexibility

Brussels, 17/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 17 February, the representatives of the islands commission of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) met EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia to discuss the application of new European rules on state aid to the island regions. Leading the delegation, the president of the Region of Sardinia, Ugo Cappellacci, called on the commissioner for greater flexibility in the state aid regime and conditions to put the islands on an...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: For a reflection and a revision of relations between the EU and the Mediterranean world
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) ECOFIN: 2nd Greek bailout and reinforcement of Stability Pact on menu
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) HUNGARY: Infringements - Budapest replies in time
SECTORAL POLICY
(AE) JHA: Rutte unlikely to agree to accept EP invitation on PVV site
(AE) JHA: Stanleybet hails historic decision in Costa-Cifone cases
(AE) FISHERIES: Negotiations on mackerel quotas for 2012 break down
(AE) GMO: A-la-carte crops - Danish Presidency seeks to overcome stalemate
(AE) SPACE: Parliament wants GMES to be brought back into EU budget
(AE) REGIONS: CoR wants more territorial cooperation grouping
(AE) REGIONS: State aid - Islands call for greater flexibility
(AE) REGIONS:
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EDUCATION
(AE) SOCIAL: EU somewhere between rigour, social protection and job creation
(AE) WOMEN: Quotas in key posts fail to win over council
(AE) SOCIAL €: 1.6 million to help construction workers in Spain
(AE) EDUCATION: Declaration on chess in schools - just four signatures to go
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) SYRIA: United Nations condemns crackdown much to EU satisfaction
(AE) JORDAN: First EU-Jordan task force in Amman on 22 February
(AE) IRAQ: Camp Ashraf - EU calls on Baghdad to ensure residents' safety
(AE) IRAN: SWIFT inter-bank system ready to cut out Iranian banks
(AE) BURMA/MYANMAR: Council lifts 87 visa bans
(AE) HUMAN RIGHTS: EP concerns over Egypt, Belarus and Japan
(AE) ZIMBABWE: EU eases sanctions
(AE) SENEGAL: Dan Preda to head EP delegation for election observation
(AE) ALGERIA: Pressure from Europe on energy
(AE) TRADE: China - public procurement - De Gucht presses Beijing
(AE) TRADE: China - market economy status - Liberals say no
(AE) TRADE:
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) CJEU: Italian betting rules remain discriminatory
(AE) CJEU:
EVENTS CALENDAR
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(AE) Other events 20-25 February: