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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8215
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/stability pact

21/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - France will naturally respect its commitments under the Stability and Growth Pact and it would be a totally unfounded argument to imagine the contrary, President Chirac said in Madrid last Friday. "France plans to return to a balance in its medium-term public finances", he said, on the fringe of the EU/Latin American Summit. Nonetheless, he added, "the growth and competitiveness policy also means reducing taxes and charges that today paralyse our production system" and "France is among the European countries where taxes and charges are the highest".

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: In framework of present wide ranging debate on EMU, institutional reforms that Commission submits to Convention would make co-ordination of economic policy stronger and more democratic
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/COMMISSION/CONVENTION: Commission on Wednesday to approve its "plan for the European Union" for the Convention - Ambitious plan for CFSP, Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and EMU
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: After week of debate, EU agrees on status and countries for 13 deported Palestinians
(EU) EU/PRESIDENCY/SPAIN: Mr Aznar in favour of European Council President with five year mandate, assisted by five or six peers
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Javier Solana meets Colin Powell - Tony Blair wants meeting forum
(EU) EU/ESDP/GREECE:
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: First EU military exercise begins on Wednesday
(EU) EU/IRAQ: EU supports Kofi Annan's initiatives for finding a solution to problem of weapons of mass destruction
(EU) IRELAND:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: Views differ in Council on proposal of regulation on "sales promotion" - majority current would prefer directive
(EU) EASTERN EUROPE/EBRD:
(EU) EU/PATENT: Council adopts conclusions on Community Patent, but without reaching political compromise on question of competent jurisdiction
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Council reaches political agreement on "traditional" public procurement directive
(EU) EP/COMPETITION:
(EU) EP/ECB: To provide boost to economic recovery, Mr Duisenberg calls on Member States to show wage moderation and respect stability pact
(EU) EU/JHA: Tony Blair hopes Seville Summit will "relaunch" common asylum and immigration policy by making link between development aid and fight against illegal immigration - Speech by Peter Hain
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Commission prepares to sound alarm regarding fall in productiveness of work in EU
(EU) EU/PAKISTAN: Commission adopts five-year strategy
(EU) EU/LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN: Madrid Summit tackles American protectionist traits - Latin American countries call for EU to open markets
(EU) EU/ANDEAN COMMUNITY: Relative satisfaction from Andean countries, after promise for co-operation agreement preparing for possible free trade negotiations tied to Doha results
(EU) EU/MEXICO: Madrid Summit confirms strengthening of relations
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Green light to Innogy acquisition by RWE (electricity)
(EU) EU/CULTURE/BROADCASTING: EU to debate cultural co-operation in enlarged Europe and storage of digital content - Exchange of views on Television without Frontiers Directive
(EU) EU/MEDIA: Eight candidate countries admitted to MEDIA programme
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Verheugen defends his financial and budget plans: "Total expenditure for enlargement would, in the end, be even higher than the EUR 40 billion which the Commission proposed by taking the 2004-2006 reference period" - The Nice Treaty coming into force remains necessary precondition to conclusion of enlargement negotiations
(EU) EP/ENLARGEMENT: Reimer Böge's restrained report on funding enlargement
(EU) EU/SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Parliament fears failure of Johannesburg Summit - concrete suggestions so Union can prevent fiasco
(EU) EU/STABILITY PACT:
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS/SESSION: Debates on immigration, racism, transport and meeting with ESC President
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN MUTUALITY:
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 506
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