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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10812

22 March 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 35
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Germany is to take in 5,000 Syrian refugees

Brussels, 21/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström welcomed, on 20 March, the decision taken by the German home minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, to allow 5,000 Syrian refugees to settle in Germany in the coming months. She said that the services working under her would work on possible financial support for Berlin. Friedrich explains, as reported by AFP, that Berlin would grant asylum to 3,000 Syrian refugees in June at the latest and then to another...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: The problem of Cyprus - clash of positions and a few remarks
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) CYPRUS: EU27 hastily examines Cyprus' Plan B
(AE) BANKING: Another stage reached in new Basel III bank capital rules
(AE) STATE AID: Commission clears financing of Polish Nauta shipyard
(AE) STATE AID:
(AE) COMPETITION:
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) CLIMATE: Biofuels and ILUC - Council support but considerable doubt
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Stéphane Le Foll presents milk support measures
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Proposed Russian ban on potatoes gives rise to concern
(AE) ENERGY: Cyprus, Poland and Romania in dock
(AE) ENERGY: EU adopts new regulatory framework for infrastructure
(AE) ENERGY: EIB loan to French electricity transport network
(AE) JHA: Schengen - Carlos Coelho wants cost assessment
(AE) JHA: Germany is to take in 5,000 Syrian refugees
(AE) JHA: “Anti-Muslim” racism is widespread, ENAR states
(AE) HEALTH: Tobacco directive - Linda McAvan will not give way to pressure
(AE) EDUCATION: Crisis puts national budgets under pressure
(AE) REGIONS: Romania looking at regionalisation for fund absorption
(AE) TRANSPORT: Transition towards authorised on-board liquids
(AE) TRANSPORT: Rail rapporteurs appointed and work on 4th package under way
(AE) TRANSPORT: Massive support from lobbies for electrification of transport
(AE) TRANSPORT: Portugal and Belgium taken to court
(AE) FISHERIES: EP rapporteur supports end to bottom trawling
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) RUSSIA: Clearing up misunderstandings on energy to ease the tension
(AE) JAPAN: On the way to political and trade cooperation agreements
(AE) SERBIA/KOSOVO: Hopes of progress and an agreement for 2 April
(AE) FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Gymnich dominated by Syrian issue
(AE) SYRIA: Call for investigation into possible use of chemical weapons
(AE) AZERBAIJAN: Baku must make significant further efforts on neighbourhood
(AE) ISRAEL: Greater dynamism in partnership with EU on neighbourhood
(AE) PALESTINE: Reasonable progress on neighbourhood
(AE) LEBANON: Beirut's slow progress on neighbourhood
(AE) CANADA: EU hopes to seal free-trade agreement by summer
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) JHA: Schengen border areas to be given autonomous system
(AE) VAT: France guilty of exempting inland ferries from VAT