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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10654
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) asean

Merkel backs bloc-to-bloc free-trade agreement

Brussels, 12/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was on a visit to Indonesia on 11 July, said that the EU should “hurry up and put a free-trade deal in place with the ASEAN region to maintain competitiveness”. Region-to-region negotiations, which were launched in 2007 between the EU and the ten South-East Asian economies - Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma/Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - were put on hold in 2009 because...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: EU/Mediterranean: Laurent Fabius and others express their opinions
ECONOMY - FINANCES
(AE) ITALY: Italian Senate ratifies Budget Pact
(AE) TAXATION: Cypriot Presidency's taxation priorities
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) ROMANIA: Victor Ponta under pressure in Brussels
(AE) RELIGION: Intergenerational solidarity at centre of meeting
(AE) BUDGET: Tougher sanctions against fraudsters
(AE) ADMINISTRATION: EU looks to recruit Croatian officials
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) COHESION: A package without “macro-condition” or performance reserve
(AE) COHESION: EP states its position on ERDF and Cohesion Funds
(AE) ENERGY: Adoption of energy efficiency directive underway
(AE) JHA: MEPs still want truth about CIA flights
(AE) JHA: Asylum - EASO wants to know more about Afghan exile
(AE) DIGITAL AGENDA: Kroes announces new high-speed digital measures
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: Presidency aims to solve patent problem
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Fruit and vegetables, crisis adaptation measures
(AE) ANIMAL HEALTH: Two organisations decry lack of progress made
(AE) FISHERIES: Delay on plans to end bottom trawling
(AE) FISHERIES: EP fisheries committee adopts recommendations on CFP reform
(AE) FISHERIES: Agreement on sanctions for overfishing
(AE) NATURAL DISASTERS: DIPECHO programmes allocated €35 million
(AE) CLIMATE:
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) SERBIA: Cyprus supports opening of negotiations in December
(AE) BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: EU pays homage to victims of Srebrenica
(AE) CENTRAL ASIA: High level dialogue on security in the autumn
(AE) CHINA: Beijing accuses EU of discrimination
(AE) PHILIPPINES: Partnership and cooperation agreement signed
(AE) ASEAN: Merkel backs bloc-to-bloc free-trade agreement
(AE) HUMANITARIAN AID: Cyprus Presidency priorities - Sahel and Horn of Africa
(AE) DEVELOPMENT: EU says middle-income countries must look after their poor
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Structuring Euro-Mediterranean economic integration
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) CJEU: Fees to Vodafone and France Télécom are illegal in Spain
(AE) CJEU: Obligation to place vegetable seed in catalogue varieties