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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8237

21 June 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/immigration
Commission weakens its proposal on minimum norms for granting refugee status

Brussels, 20/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - On the eve of the Seville Summit, the European Commission has adopted a new and less ambitious casting of its proposal on the minimum rules for asylum procedures, as requested by the Fifteen at the Laeken Summit last December. The new proposal opens the way to more exemptions and national measures than that submitted to the Member States in September 2000, which the Member States rejected considering it to be too binding. The European Commission hopes...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Short chronicle on the Convention - Members thereof must turn to Prodi's "without altering the treaties" initiative, as it is the indispensable complement to the Commission's "project for the Union"
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF SEVILLE: On eve of Summit, United Kingdom, Spain and France put up common front - Neither Commission nor Luxembourg appreciate idea of penalising countries whose co-operation in combating illegal immigration may be deemed inadequate
(EU) EP/EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Miranda asks Pat Cox to protest against proposal of penalising developing countries
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Next Convention meeting to be exclusively devoted to listening to civil society
(EU) EP/TERRORISM: Mr Patten tries to soothe MEPs' worries about freeze on assets and impact on civil liberties
(EU) EU/GEORGIA: Mr Patten asks for Tacis Project Leader kidnapped on Tuesday to be freed
(EU) EU/BALKANS: Adoption of negotiating mandate for Stability and Association Agreement with Albania pushed back till after summer
(EU) EP/TURKEY: Sükrü Sina Gürel hopes Seville Summit will not adopt discriminatory attitude towards Turkey and regrets lack of progress on EU/NATO agreement
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Euro-Mediterranean Forum focuses work on immigration and appeals for strengthening of Barcelona Process
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: finance Ministers close to compromise on main economic policy guidelines
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Commission won't allow France reduce VAT in hotel and catering
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Commission examines ten "Golden Share" cases
(EU) EU/IMMIGRATION: Commission weakens its proposal on minimum norms for granting refugee status
(EU) EU/TERRORISM: Europol denies imminent nuclear terrorist attack in Europe, announced by Reuters
(EU) EP/PALESTINE: After Patten's hearing, EP Committee on Foreign Affairs agrees to release EUR 18.7 million for the Palestinian Authority
(EU) EU/HUMANITARIAN AID: Commission allocates 22 million euro to Afghanistan to facilitate return of refugees and displaced persons
(EU) EU/ACP: ACP Trade and Finance Ministers prepare summit of ACP Heads of State and trade negotiations with Union
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT: Meeting with representatives of indigenous peoples better to take account of their interests in co-operation policy
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: Food safety, veterinary policy, ethyl alcohol, feta and mid-term CAP review on agenda of the meeting on 27 June
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE:
(EU) EP/ENVIROnMENT/HEALTH: Mr Byrne and Ms Wallström debate with Commission's 2003 work programme Parliamentary Committee
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Commission requests Germany to end national aid for grain brandy producers
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: USA AGAIN LAUNCHES CRITICISMS IN GMO CASE
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission clears acquisition of US advertising agency Bcom3 by Publicis of France
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Green light to Vendex acquisition of Brico Belgium
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Green light to SABIC acquisition of DSMS Petrochemicals
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission approves loan guarantee for Fairchild Dornier
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Netherlands to recover aid to maritime transport
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Aid authorised for two Basque energy projects
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Approval to aid in favour of Zellstoff Stendal in paper sector
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: EUR 55 million in Italian national aid is cleared
(EU) EU/REGIONS: Players in cohesion policy urged to debate future urban challenges -City of Graz is on its second urban project
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Germany should have gone about it in a different way for the European Commission to accept its map of regions benefiting from Community aid
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Ruling in case concerning State aid granted to Spanish firm Santana Motor
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