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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10749

12 December 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 37 / 39
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) central america
Parliament go-ahead to association agreement

Brussels, 11/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - The way is provisionally open for free trade between the EU and its Central American partners, pending ratification by national parliaments.

On Tuesday 11 December, in Strasbourg, the European Parliament approved by 557 votes to 100 and 21 abstentions the association agreement between the EU and Central America (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Salvador) concluded in 2010 and signed on 29 June this year. The association agreement...

Contents

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: European Parliament pushes unitary patent forward
(AE) TRANSPORT: MEPs hostile to airports package day before vote
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) PATENT: Advocate general proposes rejecting Spanish and Italian pleas
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Clarity in short-term, but long-term remains vague
(AE) BUDGET: Final 2013 budget approval on Wednesday but without Greens
(AE) ITALY: Support for Monti at Parliament, EPP rejects all populism
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) RESEARCH: Council adds stone to “Horizon 2020” edifice
(AE) RESEARCH: Council determines EIT priority areas
(AE) RESEARCH: Completion of European research area closer
(AE) PUBLIC MARKETS: Political agreement at Council on 3 legislative texts
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: Adoption of conclusions on “new growth”
(AE) CONSUMERS: Informal agreement on extrajudicial litigation resolution
(AE) DIGITAL: Commission suspends Czech termination rates project
(AE) DIGITAL: Commission suspends Polish broadband project
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Commission consults on how to improve air quality
(AE) EDUCATION: Study reveals advantages of school partnerships
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Report calls for phasing-out of milk quotas
(AE) AGRICULTURE: French Gruyère is granted PGI status
(AE) TRANSPORT: Council closes file on safer and more ecological motorcycles
(AE) TRANSPORT: €120 million for TGV Est in France
(AE) JHA: More money transferred by migrants to their country of origin in 2011
(AE) JHA: Rules adopted on chemical precursors for home-made explosives
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) GREECE: Successful buy-back paves way for aid disbursement
(AE) STATE AID: Spain fined for failure to recover illegal aid from Indosa
(AE) COMPETITION: Antitrust proceedings against OPCOM and Transelectrica
(AE) GREECE: New EIB loans totalling €370 million
(AE) EIB: Portugal, Italy and Germany get money to lend to small business
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) SYRIA: EU encourages Syrian coalition
(AE) ISRAEL:
(AE) YEMEN:
(AE) FYROM: Tension on opening negotiations with Skopje
(AE) FOREIGN AFFAIRS: European Parliament calls for digital freedom
(AE) SERBIA/KOSOVO:
(AE) MALI: EU wants prime minister's appointment and watches situation closely
(AE) DRC: East of Congo - external support to M23 is unacceptable, says EU
(AE) COLOMBIA/PERU: European Parliament endorses free trade agreement
(AE) CENTRAL AMERICA: Parliament go-ahead to association agreement
(AE) LATIN AMERICA: Parliament and Commission confident about free trade
(AE) TRADE: