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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport/environment

Informal Council to focus on aims and means of more environmentally-friendly transport policy

Brussels, 13/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - Thirty European Transport and Environment Ministers will be meeting as planned on Saturday and Sunday in Louvain, for an Informal Council devoted to sustainable development in the transport sector. According to the programme proposed by the Belgian Transport Minister, Isabelle Durant, and the Environment Minister, Magda Alvoet, debates will essentially focus on three issues: 1) the environmental targets to be reached by the year 2010; 2) the economic...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Are Europeans finally discovering the real face of united Europe?
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/ATTACK ON UNITED STATES: MEPs call for greater cooperation to combat terrorism (and even an extraordinary EU/United States summit) - Appeal not to confuse terrorist fanaticism and Islam, and to keep calm
(EU) ATTACKS ON UNITED STATES/EUROPEAN MOVEMENT:
(EU) NATO/ATTACKS IN UNITED STATES: Allies express total solidarity on basis of Article 5 without deciding on concrete military action
(EU) EU/ATTACKS IN THE UNITED STATES: EU repatriates its humanitarian personnel in Afghanistan
(EU) EU/NEPAL: EU welcomes talks between government and CPN-M but calls for end to intimidation
(EU) ATTACKS IN THE UNITED STATES/TURKEY:
(EU) ATTACKS IN THE UNITED STATES/ACP:
(EU) EU/TERRORIST ATTACKS ON UNITED STATES/SOCIAL PARTNERS: Employers and trade unions call for solidarity
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Extraordinary meeting of Committee of Ministers to examine ways of stepping up fight against terrorism
(EU) EP/MACEDONIA: In Skopje, Ms Fontaine confirms EP's solidarity
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Extraordinary formal Council on Friday evening to coordinate air safety measures - a European text may be presented to the ICAO, announces Ms de Palacio
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT/ENVIRONMENT: Informal Council to focus on aims and means of more environmentally-friendly transport policy
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT/TRANSPORT: On eve of joint Council, European Environment Agency says transport pressures on environment are growing, in contradiction with EU's objectives
(EU) EU/FOOT AND MOUTH: Restrictions on UK extended to 30 November
(EU) EU/OPEC/TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST UNITED STATES:
(EU) EU/ECB: ECB decides on Thursday to leave interest rates unchanged and to increase liquid assets by EUR 40 billion
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL MARKETS: Public hearing on Directive concerning investment services
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Commission gives more time to reply to consultation on barriers to free movement of industrial goods
(EU) EP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM: Goebbels report rejects Tobin Tax
(EU) EU/SPORT: Commission and IOC want to promote Olympic values in schools
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY: Mr Liikanen at Tokyo e-commerce conference
(EU) EU/RESEARCH:
(EU) OECD/STEEL:
(EU) EU/CHILE: Chilean President announces that two sides intend technically concluding negotiations on free trade in December
(EU) EU/MERCOSUR: European and Mercosur trade unions co-ordinate to ensure that future free trade agreement comprises a social chapter
(EU) EU/COLOMBIA:
(EU) EU/WTO/UNITED STATES: Three new WTO panels on American countervailing measures imposed on European steel producers
(EU) EU/MOROCCO: Agreement on tomatoes for the next marketing year
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EMU/ENLARGEMENT: Budapest Conference on candidate countries and single currency
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Monti gives speech on the need to apply competition rules to certain sectors of the new economy
(EU) EU/BUDGET 2001/CORRIGENDUM:
(EU) ER/SECOND SESSION IN SEPTEMBER: Focusing on the future of cohesion policy, women's rights, refugees' status, pollution, Galileo and e-commerce
(EU) EP/ENLARGEMENT: Mr Folias asks for information about irregularities in management of ISPA pre-accession instrument
(EU) COURT OF JUSTICE: Advocate General Stix-Hackl rules in two cases concerning foreigners' right to stay in the EU
(EU) EU/MACEDONIA:
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Cable sector concerned about compulsory measures in Electronic Communications Package
(EU) EP/DATA PROTECTION: Conference of Data Protection Officers (24-26 September, Paris)
(EU) EP/EURO:
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
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(EU) Energy:
(EU) Cables:
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SUPPLEMENT
"EUROPE"/Documents No. 2251: Transport White Paper: European Transport Policy for 2010: Time to Decide
VALUE OF THE EURO IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES 13/09/2001: