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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8132

19 January 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 44 / 48
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) pharmaceuticals

The French group SONOFI/SYNTHELABO has announced that it sold its 42% take in the plant biology laboratories YVES ROCHER (cosmetics: 1.82 bn turnover in 2000) end-December 2001 for 316 million euro. The shares were mainly sold to the Rocher family which took 39% of the capital and thus sees its stake increase to 77%. The remaining 3% were sold to SOCIETE GENERALE.

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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Union condemns Hadera attack, while Josep Piqué continues trip to Middle East
(EU) EU/KOSOVO: Solana condemns Hajdaraj's assassination
(EU) EU/TERRORISM/BASQUE COUNTRY:
(EU) EU/COLOMBIA: EU would like resumption of peace process
(EU) EP/FONTAINE PRESIDENCY: Nicole Fontaine relates her "battles" at head of "largest parliamentary democracy in world"
(EU) EP/EPP-ED:
(EU) EP/WHO:
(EU) CORRECTION:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/CONGO: Echo organises itself to help victims of volcanic eruption in Democratic Republic of Congo - Financing decision imminent
(EU) EU/Afghanistan: EU outlines its contribution to international efforts to rebuild Afghanistan ahead of Tokyo conference
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Towards clarification of bilateral agreement on trade in large capacity civil aircraft
(EU) EU/HUMANITRIAN AID: Commission granted 11 close to million euro in humanitarian aid to several regions of the world end of last year
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: Ministers of Fifteen to discuss minor proposals on Monday on potato starch, movement of pets and examine question of granting aid to Portuguese pig farmers
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Tuesday's ECOFIN meeting to focus on assessment of six Stability and Convergence Programmes, progress on tax issues with third countries and Argentinian crisis
(EU) EU/FOOD: Commission calls for information from Member States concerned by food contaminated by prohibited antibiotic
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Commission proposes partial harmonisation of conditions for registering plant-based medicines
(EU) EU/ASEM: Working more closely together to combat climate change
(EU) EU/CYPRUS: Commissioner Verheugen highlights EU's role and prospect of enlargement in getting Cypriots around negotiating table
(EU) EP/ROAD TRANSPORT: Parliament approves Council common positions on maximum weights and dimensions of buses and on employment of third country drivers
(EU) EP/ENVIRONMENT: Parliament takes stance in favour of integrated policy for products, with clear objectives, a timetable and indicators
(EU) EP/SOCIAL: Parliament calls for European Works Council Directive to be applied to seafarers
(EU) EP/JHA: Parliament approves British, French and Swedish initiative on mutual recognition of pecuniary sanctions
(EU) EU/CULTURE: Viviane Reding says she will unveil draft new "Television without Frontiers" directive on 23 May
(EU) EU/EURO: Confirmation of price hikes for certain products in France
(EU) EU/TERRORISM: Swedish Eurojust representative claims EU played down planned terrorist attacks in EU before 11 September
(EU) EU/TERRORISM:
(EU) EU/EURO:
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: 158 million euro for the Belgian province of Liege
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: 58 million euro for Belgian provinces of Namur and Luxembourg
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Adoption of a programme in favour of Luxembourg
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Interreg EUR 11.4 million programme is cleared in favour of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Mario Monti says liberalisation does not mean privatisation
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Tetra Laval appeal against Commission decision
(EU) EU/ROAD SAFETY:
(EU) EU/TECHNOLOGY/PATENTS: Commission report on impact of conflict between patent protection and publication of papers on research that could be patentable
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Mario Monti speaks about communication on merger corrective measures, announcing publication of document for businesses
(EU) EU/E-COMMERCE:
CALENDAR
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ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
(EU) Investments:
(EU) Insurance:
(EU) Insurance:
(EU) Finance:
(EU) Pharmaceuticals:
(EU) Pharmaceuticals:
(EU) Agri-food:
(EU) Agri-food:
(EU) Consultancy:
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 18/01/2002: