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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7655

14 February 2000
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/austria
Michel announces Belgian initiatives to avoid a repeat of the Austrian situation

Brussels, 14/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - At the lunchtime meeting of the General Affairs Council, Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel returned to the political situation in Austria, announcing that his country would be taking initiatives, in the framework of the IGC and negotiation of the Charter on Fundamental Rights, "to try to prevent and respond more effectively" to problems of this kind (see next page for Mrs Ferrero-Waldner's remarks). Apparently with little backing by his colleagues...

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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
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WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
EUROPEAN LIBRARY: N° 401
VALUE OF THE EURO IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES 14/02/2000: