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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7655
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/commission

Negotiations between Parliament and Commission on a code of conduct are making progress, but important aspects remain unsettled

Brussels, 11/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The latest version of the framework agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the Commission, being developed on the basis of the commitments made by President Prodi at the time of investiture of the Commission last September, demonstrates that the negotiations between the two institutions are making progress. The Commission has agreed to a large part of the text proposed by the EP though it is still uncertain whether it will accept a...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The European institutions do not yet seem to have incorporated the summit's political guidelines and new Court of Justice rulings into the EU's attitute to agriculture and agricultural negotiations with third countries
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: Intergovernmental Conference officially opens on 14 February
(EU) EU/AUSTRIA: Michel announces Belgian initiatives to avoid a repeat of the Austrian situation
(EU) EU/AUSTRIA: Ferrero-Waldner reiterates that Austria wishes to continue participating normally in European affairs and urges Europeans not to listen to Jörg Haider alone
(EU) EU/CFSP/DENMARK:
(EU) EU/INSTITUTIONAL REFORM/COMMISSION: Barnier suggests (personally, for now) the possibility of strengthening Article 7 in order to bring in kind of democratic "surveillance"
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/GENERAL AFFAIRS: Council creates interim structures of European security and defence policy - Other points discussed
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Failing Commission proposal on new agricultural prices, Council cancels its session next week - Serious budgetary problems
(EU) EU/CROATIA: EU welcomes new democratic Croatia - Prospects of evolution
(EU) EU/FRY: Council suspends air embargo while boosting pressure on Milosevic regime
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Anna Diamantopoulou considers that the informal meeting of Lisbon clearly demonstrated the political nature of the European Union - Progress in preparing the Lisbon Summit
(EU) EU/BUDGET 2001: Tuesday, Commission to discuss distribution of its staff between Directorates General in relation to political priorities
(EU) EP/ANIMAL HEALTH: Böge Report supports and reinforces new regulation proposed for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
(EU) EP/SESSION: Work opens
(EU) WTO/CHINA:
(EU) EP/COMMISSION: Negotiations between Parliament and Commission on a code of conduct are making progress, but important aspects remain unsettled
(EU) EP/COMMISSION/REFORM: Political groups' first reactions to Kinnock project
(EU) COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE: "La Librairie de Rome" disputes the allocation of the newspaper market within the European Parliament
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Margot Wallstrom to go to Romania and Hungary on Thursday to assess the magnitude of the ecological disaster due to cyanide pollution - Examining possibilities of EU support
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Approval for a joint-venture in paper sector between Neusiedler and Israeli Paper Mills
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: EU rail system needs extending to Central and Eastern European countries candidates for accession
(EU) EU/KOREA: Korean automobile manufacturers respond to European and American accusations of protectionism
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: Announced participation of Jörg Haider causes disturbance on eve of plenary session - Addresses by Prodi and Seixas da Costa - Election of president
(EU) EU/BRITISH BEEF:
(EU) NEWS OF THE WEEK: from 7 to 14 February 2000
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
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WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
EUROPEAN LIBRARY: N° 401
VALUE OF THE EURO IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES 14/02/2000: