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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10938

9 October 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 37 / 38
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) epp
Wilfried Martens leaves head of European conservatives

Brussels, 08/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 8 October, former Belgian Christian Democrat prime minister Wilfried Martens announced that he was temporarily stepping down from his function of leader of the European People's Party (EPP) for health reasons. He will delegate his responsibilities as leader of the EPP to the leader of the European Parliament's EPP Group, Joseph Daul (France), “until further notice”. Martens has been head of the EPP since 1990. According to the Belgian...

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