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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7640

24 January 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 36 / 37
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library
N° 398

*** CAROLINE BROSSAT: La culture européenne: définition et enjeux. Etablissement Emile Bruylant (67 rue de la Régence, B-1000 Bruxelles. Tel: (32-2) 5129845, fax: 5117202, Bruylant@pophost.eunet.be, http: //www.bruylant.be). 1999, 548 pages, FEB 2,700. ISBN 2-8027-1187-3.

There are books so rich, so filled with enlightening information that trying to present them in a few lines is doubtless a form of betrayal particular to journalism. And this will necessarily be the case for Caroline...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: essay to summarise the new elements that have changed igc and institutional reform by imposing fundamental debate on the aims and ambitions of europe
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Council has difficulties establishing a position
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Speaking to Fifteen, Yasser Arafat urges for firm and continued Union participation in Peace Process - Syrian Foreign Minister to be invited by Fifteen
(EU) EU/INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: Council takes note of provisional IGC programme
(EU) EU/SERBIA:
(EU) EU/PORTUGUESE PRESIDENCY/SECURITY AND DEFENCE: According to Gama, the debate opened in Council, demonstrates the will to balance the military and civilian dimensions - Informal meeting of Defence Ministers end February (for which Solana hopes to have more precise elements of the "headline goals")
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE/CHECHNYA:
(EU) EP/HUMAN RIGHTS: Parliament takes a stance over Egypt, China, Iraq and the Chad-Cameroon oil project
(EU) OSCE/EU: Priorities of the Austrian Presidency
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/LIBYA: Conditions for Colonel Gaddafi's meeting with President Prodi not yet met
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: State of Commission deliberations on German aid to Leuna refinery (CDU-ELF affair)
(EU) EU/SOUTH EAST EUROPE: Action plan to promote social and civil dialogue in South Eastern Europe and thus prepare region for accession
(EU) EP/HUMANITARIAN ACTION: Parliament calls on Commission to take measures to improve safety of humanitarian personnel
(EU) EP/CHOCOLATE: Lannoye anticipates a tough second reading on chocolate directive
(EU) EP/COMMISSION/REFORM: Mixed reactions by EP groups to the Kinnock plan
(EU) COURT OF JUSTICE: An EU national, deported from the UK for having facilitated the illegal entry of immigrants, challenges a specific feature of British immigration law
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Commission proposes recommendation designed to do away with final obstacles to mobility in education and training
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Commissioner Busquin launches scientific experiment in Kiruna on ozone depletion
(EU) EU/YOUTH: European Youth Forum asks the Council to break deadlock on Youth programme - Meeting of EP/Council conciliation committee on Thursday
(EU) EU/AUTOMOBILES: ACEA states price differences between Member States are due to lack of tax harmonisation and not to exclusive distribution agreements - Argument in favour of keeping these agreements
(EU) EU/SOUTH AFRICA: Situation deadlocked
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: President Clinton suspends operational provisions of Helms-Burton Act for a further six months
(EU) EP/INFORMATION SOCIETY: Towards creation of "Foundation for European Network Society"
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: European Organisations for the Elderly protest against retention, by European Commission, of discrimination based on age
(EU) EU/CONFERENCES: European seminars and other events in late January and February
(EU) NEWS OF THE WEEK: 17 to 23 January 2000
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