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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10702

4 October 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 6 / 29
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) state aid
Prolongation granted for OPAP's exclusive rights and licence

Brussels, 03/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - On 3 October, the European Commission authorised Greece to prolong until 2030 exclusive rights granted to OPAP, the Greek public gambling operator, to operate 13 games of chance, and to grant an exclusive licence to the same operator to operate 35,000 Video Lottery Terminals (VLT) until 2022. Greece actively cooperated with the Commission to determine the market value of these exclusive rights and the VLT licence and increased the fee that OPAP will pay...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Verhofstadt/Cohn-Bendit project for tomorrow's EU is bold and ambitious but unrealistic - the Delors project remains current
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) EMU: EU27 gets down to work ahead of European Summit
(AE) ECB: Goebbels responds to Goulard and Dati about women at the ECB
(AE) BANKING: Industry concerned but Liikanen Report welcomed at EP
(AE) STATE AID: Commission to investigate FranceAgriMer dairy levy
(AE) STATE AID: Prolongation granted for OPAP's exclusive rights and licence
(AE) STATE AID: Italy may continue to provide aid for 'interruptibility services'
(AE) STATE AID:
(AE) EIB: Credit Cooperatif gets €100 million loan for French small business
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) BUDGET: No more payments to Erasmus and European social fund
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: Commission at work until end 2013
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: Online gambling, operators get serious
(AE) CLIMATE: Rivasi says HFO-1234yf gas proven hazard
(AE) WOMEN: No agreement among EU27 on quotas but Reding will fight
(AE) AGRICULTURE: France wants to keep help for poorest
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Divergence between countries on direct aid convergence
(AE) REGIONS: CEMR wants more decentralisation, development and democracy
(AE) TRANSPORT: Too many barriers to regional airlines
(AE) TRANSPORT: Better application of social rules on road
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) DEVELOPMENT: Support for resilience is vector in fight against hunger
(AE) FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Better supporting countries in democratic transition
(AE) GEORGIA: EU calls on government and opposition to work together
(AE) UKRAINE: Special envoys' mission suspended during elections
(AE) IRAN: Tehran will not back down on nuclear programme
(AE) TUNISIA: Jebali reassures EP over Embassy security
(AE) NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY:
(AE) PALESTINE:
(AE) DEFENCE: EDA organises combined military exercises in Belgium
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
(AE) RUSSIA: Monitoring procedure kept in place for Russia