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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10612
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Cecilia Malmström tweets congratulation to Obama on gay marriage issue

Brussels, 10/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 10 May EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström tweeted congratulations to American President Barack Obama for his public support for gay marriage - the first US president to do so. The commissioner welcomed his strong leadership and said that same-sex marriages should be possible in the EU too, but this rests in the hands of the member states. Six EU member states currently authorise gay marriages, including Spain, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands. Eleven allow same-sex civil marriages. The new French president, François Hollande, has promised to make same-sex marriages legal in France before the summer of 2013. (SP/transl.fl)

 

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Greek people have rejected euro discipline, EU must accept this and prepare for Greece's exit from the eurozone - Arrangements under consideration
ECONOMY - FINANCE
(AE) ECOFIN: Greece, Spain, EBRD, CRD IV and savings tax
(AE) GREECE: EFSF provides €4.2 billion of a €5.2 billion cash instalment
(AE) ECONOMY: Swoboda says countries must be forced by law to invest
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
(AE) BUDGET: No 2010 spending discharge for three agencies
(AE) BUDGET: 2010 discharge - EP postpones its decision on Council's budget
(AE) JHA: Media/libel - MEPs want rules clarified
(AE) JHA: Lampedusa - one year on
(AE) INDUSTRY: Exemption for conventionally-bred plants and animals
(AE) TELECOMS: Roaming and data service prices set to fall
(AE) TRANSPORT: EP flies to rescue of regional airports
(AE) TRANSPORT: EP wants fight against piracy to deliver more
(AE) TOTALITARIANISM: EP calls for European Day of Remembrance for Righteous
(AE) IMMUNITY: EP will not support Tudor Parliamentary immunity
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) EFSA: Conflicts of interest - renewed polemic - Commission plays for time
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Regulation is adopted on marketing of biocidal products
(AE) NUCLEAR: Oettinger promises draft revised safety rules by end 2012
(AE) ENERGY: Lithuania on way to energy independence with nuclear and LNG
(AE) COHESION: CoR forum on Common Strategic Framework
(AE) CJEU: Scrapping of Botolist and Botocyl trademarks
(AE) JHA: Cecilia Malmström tweets congratulation to Obama on gay marriage issue
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - CULTURE - SPORT
(AE) SOCIAL: Council ends social dumping by low-cost airlines
(AE) SOCIAL: Demonstration in Brussels against double-speak
(AE) SOCIAL: Informal summit raises trade union hopes
(AE) SPORT: Council wants to combat doping in recreational sport
(AE) CULTURE/AUDIOVISUAL: Council supports “Creative Europe”
(AE) CULTURE: Council wants to step up digitisation
(AE) CULTURE: Council's partial guidelines on Europe for Citizens
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) SYRIA: EU condemns attacks and reiterates support for peace plan
(AE) BURMA: Schulz, in presence of Burmese leader, welcomes reforms
(AE) MEXICO: Progress on protecting human rights defenders
(AE) RIO+20: Parliament decides not to go to Rio due to excessive cost
(AE) UKRAINE: Merkel says country lives under dictatorship and repression
(AE) EGYPT:
(AE) TRADE: De Gucht wants to toughen EU stance on unfair competition
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Trade serving democracy