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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10938

9 October 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 38
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) transport
Railworkers strike on Wednesday 9 over railway reform

Brussels, 08/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 9 October, railway workers are expected to carry out a number of different activities to demonstrate against the 4th railway package. The European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) is organising a day of action ahead of the “Transport” Council on 10 October. This Council will be looking at the safety dimension in the 4th Railway package before the European Parliament's transport committee votes on the entire package on 26 November. The...

Contents

PLENARY OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
(AE) HEALTH: Parliament decides e-cigarettes are not medicine
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Not all plain sailing for shale gas under IEA directive
(AE) PARLIAMENT/BANKING: Confidential Parliament-ECB meetings as required
(AE) WOMEN: Parliament attacks “gendercide”
(AE) FISHERIES: Parliament approves EU-Mauritania fisheries agreement
(AE) FISHERIES:
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) EUROGROUP: No country-specific decisions expected
(AE) GREECE: IMF makes more comments on first Greek bailout
(AE) COMPETITION: Imminent approval of MPS bank restructuring plan
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) JHA: Member states urged to do more in Mediterranean after Lampedusa disaster
(AE) JHA: After Lampedusa, Parliament calls for action from member states
(AE) JHA: Reding refutes social tourism allegations on free movement
(AE) JHA: Budapest wins CEPOL headquarters
(AE) JHA: Rapporteur on phone tapping wants to suspend “Safe Harbour”
(AE) DIGITAL: “Innovation vouchers” for SMEs that go digital
(AE) DIGITAL:
(AE) INFRASTRUCTURE: Committee approves Connecting Europe Facility
(AE) TRANSPORT: Railworkers strike on Wednesday 9 over railway reform
(AE) TRANSPORT: EIB loan for infrastructure upgrade in Sofia
(AE) REGIONS: Eurobarometer on Europeans' perceptions of cities
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EDUCATION
(AE) SOCIAL: Uncertainty over posted workers agreement in Council
(AE) EDUCATION: Low adult skills reveal need to improve education and training
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) SYRIA: EU prepared to help OPCW with information hub
(AE) SERBIA/KOSOVO: Serbian leaders' visit to Kosovo subject to conditions
(AE) YEMEN: EU deplores death of member of German Embassy
(AE) DEVELOPMENT: EU and UNESCO strengthen their partnership further
(AE) DEVELOPMENT: €149 million over 7 years for cooperation with El Salvador
(AE) HONDURAS:
(AE) ARMENIA:
(AE) BRAZIL: Towards strengthened industrial cooperation
(AE) TRADE: Lithuania wants to take disagreements with Russia to WTO
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Le Foll wants coordination on agricultural markets
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Energy future dominated by two opposing logics
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Vassiliou wants to improve quality of training
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) BUDGET: Lamassoure says no vote on MFF without €3.9 billion agreement
(AE) BUDGET: €3.7 million to help redundant workers in Italy find new jobs
(AE) EPP: Wilfried Martens leaves head of European conservatives
(AE) CJEU: New judges at Court of Justice and Civil Service Tribunal