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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7708

3 May 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 30 / 40
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) banking

Belgian insurance company MERCATOR & NOORDSTAR has acquired 67% of the capital of the family bank HBK SPAARBANLK, an operation which gives the bank a value of BF 4.44 billion. MERCATOR will then make a public bid on the balance of the capital held by various private investors.

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Lessons to be learnt from last month's wave of attacks against the Prodi Commission
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/GERMANY: Prodi-Schröder meeting Thursday evening in Brussels
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Solana's meetings with US Administration - Solana takes part in conference on South East Europe organised by EastWest Institute (whose award goes to Cem and Papandreou)
(EU) EU/AUSTRIA: Susanne Riess-Passer, elected FPÖ leader, calls for sanctions imposed by Fourteen to be lifted
(EU) DISARMAMENT: The five nuclear powers reaffirm their commitment to eliminating nuclear weapons
(EU) EMU/DENMARK: Extraordinary Social-Democrat Congress in favour of entering Euro Zone
(EU) EU/GERMANY/ENLARGEMENT:
(EU) EU/BARCELONA PROCESS: Seminar of WEU Security Studies Institute highlights divergence over Euro-Mediterranean Peace and Stability Charter
(EU) EU/LISBON SUMMIT/FOURTH WORLD: According to Fourth World, with this summit "a door opens" in the fight against exclusion
(EU) EU/LISBON SUMMIT/CEPS: Conference with Antonio Guterres
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/EMU: On Wednesday, Commission to provide its positive opinion on Greece's accession to single currency and adopt convergence reports relating to Greece and Sweden
(EU) EU/JUSTICE/HOME AFFAIRS: Council Presidency organises a high-level conference to pave the way for common policy in crime prevention
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telecom Council broadly supports Commission's approach on "Telecom package"
(EU) EU/CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: Informal Convention meeting on 3 and 4 May
(EU) EP/FRAUD: In Olaf affair, President of Court of First Instance considers that respect of MEP's rights is not guaranteed by EP decision and suspends its execution
(EU) EU/BUDGETS: Commission to propose amending "multi-annual financial perspectives" to increase budget for Balkans
(EU) EU/ROAD TRANSPORT: Commission to give view next week on draft compromise for reducing transit through Austria by using Ecopoint system
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Preparation of a new industrial co-operation strategy in the context of the Barcelona Process, to revitalise this essential aspect of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Mr. Bolkestein invited Europeans and Americans to take lead in a "regulated multilateralism" and called for revision of discriminatory American banking rules
(EU) EU/YEMEN: Joint committee discusses EU support for continuation of reforms in Yemen
(EU) EU/MOROCCO: Financing of a hydro-agricultural project
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission approves takeover of Robert Bosch GmbH's mobile telephony operations by Siemens AG
(EU) COMPETITION: Commission authorises acquisition of Hoesch Spundwand und Profil Gmbh by Salzgitter AG
(EU) EU/ACCESSIONS/ECONOMY: GDP per capita in 48 regions out of 50 in CEECs remains below 75% of Community average
(EU) EU/PUBLIC HEALTH: Commission adopts decision to reinforce epidemic surveillance of BSE by national rapid testing programmes
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: European Commission creates 47 new Jean Monnet Professorships in EU universities
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Conference on "Education for the Knowledge Economy" - Mrs Reding's views
(EU) NEWS OF THE WEEK: 24 April to 1 May 2000
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
(EU) Insurance:
(EU) Banking:
(EU) Software:
(EU) Telecommunications:
(EU) Food processing:
(EU) Water:
(EU) Aeronautics equipment:
(EU) Energy:
(EU) Agro-chemicals:
(EU) Construction:
SUPPLEMENT
EUROPEAN LIBRARY: N° 412
VALUE OF THE EURO IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES 02/05/2000: