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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7891

29 January 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 45 / 55
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) banks

The Belgian-Dutch insurance banker FORTIS has sold to American HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES (assets under management amounting to around $183 billion) its subsidiary FFG - FORTIS FINANCIAL GROUP, a fully owned FORTIS INC subsidiary, the strong American arm of FORTIS, through a share transaction worth around $1.12 billion. With this move, HARTFORD will also take on FORTIS ADVISERS INC, another fully-owned FORTIS subsidiary.

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Having feared that the new political class in Germany would be "less European" than the former, it is absurd to complain now if it proves the contrary - Objective of the Franco-German Summit
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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) CFI/EP: Court of First Instance authorises Le Pen to resume his parliamentary functions while awaiting the ruling as to substance - According to Fontaine, the decision will have far-ranging effects in the perspective of enlargement
(EU) EU/BURMA: EU Troika to meet Aung San Suu Kyi
(EU) EU/FRANCE/CONSTITUTION:
(EU) EU/DRC: Union's Special Representative meets Joseph Kabila
(EU) EU/KYRGYZSTAN: EU concerned at trial of opposition leader Felix Kulov
(EU) EP/EUROPEAN PARTIES: Radicals explain their opposition
(EU) EP/TURKEY/PRISONS: Appeal by United Left/NGL
(EU) EP/EPP/CORRIGNDUM:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE COUNCIL/MAD COW: Only solution, if EU budget is not to explode, is to cut back on production, Commissioner Fischler tells ministers
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Commission hopes that interim Galileo management structure will be rapidly established - ESA meeting on Tuesday
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/COURT OF AUDITORS/AGRICULTURAL SPENDING:
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/HUMANITARIAN AID: Commission immediately frees EUR 3 million in emergency aid for earthquake victims in India
(EU) EU/HUMANITARIAN AID: EUR 5.5 million freed for Belize, Mongolia, refugees in Afghanistan and DRC
(EU) EU/EGYPT: New Association Agreement finally signed
(EU) EMU/BUNDESBANK:
(EU) EU/MEXICO: Meeting between Lamy and Derbez
(EU) EU/AERONAUTICS: Busquin and European aeronautics sector set themselves ambitious aims for 2020
(EU) CORRIGENDUM - EU/EP/BIOETHICS:
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: White Paper expected for early-March should improve balance between modes of transport, says de Palacio
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Liberalisation of electricity not comparable in Europe to California, says Commissioner de Palacio
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Monti welcomes progress made in FIA/Formula One affair prejudging positive solution to dispute
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Adoption of Objective 2 programme for East Midlands
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/ROMANIA: Verheugen calls on new Romanian government for concrete results in order to prepare country for accession
(EU) EU/POLAND: Commission and Poland sign declaration on speeding up reforms in Polish employment systems
(EU) EU/MEXICO/ECB:
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Commission proposes public participation in drafting of certain environmental programmes
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: European railways await establishment of future transeuropean freight network, but want more funds for "bottlenecks"
(EU) COURT OF JUSTICE: Maintaining workers rights in Finland, VAT on processing of cross border waste and European Social Funds in Portugal
(EU) EU/EUROJARGON:
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/ORGANISED CRIME: Mr Vitorino underlines need for close cooperation with United States
(EU) EP/JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS: According to a working document by EP "Beginnings of a repressive federal system" are progressively appearing
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Euro-zone external trade surplus but deficit for EU15 in November 2000
(EU) EP/ECB:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL:
(EU) FAO/FISHERIES:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL:
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
(EU) Postal services:
(EU) Cleaning services:
(EU) Banks:
(EU) Banks:
(EU) Agencies:
(EU) Equipment:
(EU) Leisure:
(EU) Leisure:
(EU) Energy:
(EU) Colour-printing:
(EU) Automobiles:
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: N° 444
VALUE OF THE EURO IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES 29/01/2001: