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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8213

17 May 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/latin america
Parliament calls for Euro-Latino-American free trade area by 2010 and calls for Madrid Summit to be pro-active

Strasbourg, 16/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament called for the creation of a Euro-Latino-American free trade area by 2010, in a short resolution adopted on Wednesday and targeted at the EU/Latin America/Caribbean Summit, on Friday. According to the EP, this free trade area would add an institutional support and a complete geographic cover to the content of the strategic bi-regional partnership (agreed upon at the Rio Summit in 1999). The parliamentarians welcome the end of...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Short account of Convention - Strengthening of CFSP is obvious, but methods raise many problems
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/CONSTITUTION: Parliament adopts with significant majority report by Mr Lamassoure in favour of supple demarcation of power between EU and Member States - Commissioner responsible for subsidiarity, chamber within Court of Justice - regions with legislative powers: report from Constitutional Committee
(EU) EP/CONVENTION/UEN:
(EU) EP/COUNCIL: Mr Solana and Mr Barnier underlined possible improvements not requiring Treaty revision - Mr Solana ready to share his experiences on CFSP with Convention and IGC - Role of European Council and Council Presidency - Fears from several MEPs
(EU) EU/FRANCE: Pierre Sellal new Premanent Representative
(EU) EP/NETHERLANDS: Success of right-wing Pim Fortuyn party recently announced
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/CRISIS MANAGEMENT/JUSTICE: Fifteen promise to commit close to 300 judicial experts to crisis management in 2003
(EU) EU/KALININGRAD: EU rules out establishment of corridor between Kaliningrad an Russia - Russia reacts firmly
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Bolkestein in United States next week
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Internal market "Scoreboard" shows that, although there has been progress, many shortcomings remain
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Commission publishes recommendation on independence of statutory auditors
(EU) EU/OECD/UNITED STATES: Condemnation of protectionism during Ministerial in Paris
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Monti and James give details about cases currently under investigation, during conference on world competition policy - FXAII, Sogecable, Visa, Microsoft
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY: Commission seminar in July
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Inflation in April in euro zone upwardly reviewed
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Equal conference on "NetWorking for Inclusion"
(EU) EU/MEDIA: 8 films backed by EU Media in Cannes - Ms. Reding to hand over Media Prize
(EU) EU/EURO/UNITED KINGDOM:
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Infringement procedure against Germany over light quadricycles
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: "Energy" labelling of electric ovens and air-conditioning equipment compulsory in 2003
(EU) EP/NUCLEAR: Initiative by several EPP members to rid EU of nuclear
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EP/LATIN AMERICA: Parliament calls for Euro-Latino-American free trade area by 2010 and calls for Madrid Summit to be pro-active
(EU) EP/MEXICO: President Fox would like "strategic association" with EU
(EU) EP/FOOD SAFETY: Modification of controls of salmonella and zoonosis, to give greater weight to combating resistance to antibiotics
(EU) EP/FOOD SAFETY: Parliament in favour of simplification of rules for marketing products of animal origin
(EU) EP/ECONOMY: Despite vain attempt by Socialists to gain greater flexibility, Parliament calls for full compliance with Stability Pact
(EU) EP/BEPG 2002: Parliament seeks to strengthen coordination of economic and social policies to prevent recession
(EU) EP/OMBUDSMAN:
(EU) EP/MEDITERRANEAN: Parliament stresses Euro-Mediterranean area cannot be reduced to little more than free trade area
(EU) EP/FISHERIES: EP refuses to take hasty stance on control of deep sea species
(EU) EP/FISHERIES: EP accepts one year extension of EU/Guinea protocol
(EU) EP/FISHERIES: EP approves new EU/Seychelles fishing protocol
(EU) EU/INDIA:
(EU) EP/UKRAINE:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: COFACE calls for explicit mention of family dimension in Treaty
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/AGRICULTURE: Towards integrating equal opportunities between men and women in EU agricultural sector
(EU) EU/CULTURE/RESEARCH: Commission conference on safeguarding cultural heritage
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
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