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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7711

6 May 2000
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/portuguese presidency
Mr. Guterres asserts that strengthened co-operation will be inevitable in an enlarged EU and that Lisbon Summit has not marked the strengthening of intergovernmental

Brussels, 05/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - I hope that the intergovernmental conference will end in Nice "in a substantial way", announced, on Friday morning in Brussels, the President of the European Council Antonio Guterres, during a conference on the theme of "Building on Lisbon", organised by the CEPS (Centre for European Studies) on the Lisbon Summit. Our problem is the weakness of the political union, felt the Portuguese Prime Minister, who underlined that the IGC must create the...

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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/FEIRA SUMMIT/AUSTRIA: Guterres says that there will be no rounds of the capitals before the summit
(EU) EU/INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: Belgium proposes a mechanism to trigger in case of "democratic alert" in a Member State
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: Mr. Prodi meets Chancellor Schröder and Mr. Fabius
(EU) EU/FRENCH PRESIDENCY: President Chirac undertakes to ensure that "European economic policy" benefits from Euro
(EU) WEU/INSTITUT D'ETUDES DE SECURITE: Seminar on 18 May in Paris
(EU) EU/PORTUGUESE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Guterres asserts that strengthened co-operation will be inevitable in an enlarged EU and that Lisbon Summit has not marked the strengthening of intergovernmental
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE:
(EU) EP/GERMANY:
(EU) EU/EQUATORIAL GUINEA: EU concerned at impartiality of local elections
(EU) CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: Convention does not manage to resolve all editorial problems relating to social rights and horizontal clauses
(EU) EP/TUNISIA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Statement by the Euro Group on the state of the single currency? Negative position on revision of multiannual financial perspectives to finance Balkans aid - Other items on the agenda
(EU) EMU/ECB: Wim Duisenberg gives assurance euro destined to be strong currency
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Galileo operational before 2008 - Russian support of European request for frequency attribution
(EU) EU/EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL POLICY: Employment Council contribution to drafting of broad guidelines of economic policies at centre on Monday's ministerial session
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: "Macro-economic dialogue" (with participation of ECB and social partners) will, on Monday, centre on present economic situation in EU
(EU) EU/BALKANS: With some modifications, EP approves regulation intended to provide Community legal basis for EU funding of entities responsible for implementing peace agreement
(EU) EU/CONSUMPTION: Launch of European Network for Out-of-Court Settlement of Consumer Disputes
(EU) EP/INTERNAL MARKET: Parliament calls for strengthened sanctions and attribution to Europol of powers to fight counterfeiting and piracy - Hypothesis of EU internal border controls rejected
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Commission little affected by "I love you" virus
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Parliament calls for Community contribution to funding of school milk to be equal to 75% of indicative price of milk
(EU) EU/ECUADOR: Seeking new solutions to settle dispute over bananas
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Domestic violence causes more deaths than disease or road accidents and costs the State more, says Anna Diamantopoulou
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: New French Research Minister Schwartzenberg announces initiatives of upcoming French Council Presidency
(EU) EU/CAMBODIA:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION/BEER:
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: First report by European Environment Agency on environmental signals revealing worrying trends - Growing pollution by transports and agricultural pesticides, increase in energy consumption
(EU) EU/MOZAMBIQUE: At International Donors' Conference in Rome, Commission announces another EUR 67.5 million will go to reconstruction aid
(EU) EP/COMMISSION: Vice-President Kinnock responds to Members' questions on appointments of senior officials in Commission services
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