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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8322
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EUROPEAN UNION

 19/10 -  DUBLIN: - 2nd Irish Referendum on Nice Treaty 
 21/10 -  LUXEMBOURG: - General Affairs Council - External Relations (also 22/10) 
 -  LUXEMBOURG: - EU - Israel Association Council 
 -  LUXEMBOURG: - High level meeting on Nordic Dimension 
 -  STRASBOURG: - European Parliament plenary session (until 24/10) 
 -  STRASBOURG: - EP: Committees: Budget; Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Economic and Monetary, Industry, Foreign...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Pascal Lamy's thoughts and Romano Prodi's remarks rekindle the debate on the revision of the Stability Pact
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Elmar Brok welcomes appointment of Joschka Fischer
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: First Praesidium exchange of views on structure of Constitutional Treaty that will be discussed by plenary on 28 October
(EU) EU/EPP: Wilfried Martens re-elected to head EPP
(EU) EU/CONVENTION:
(EU) EU/EPP CONGRESS: EPP leaders insist on "sui generis" nature of European institutions and on "Christian values" on which Europe is based - in favour of new Treaty of Rome - Berlusconi contemplates Russia's accession
(EU) EU/GENERAL AFFAIRS: Monday, discussions on Middle East, Iraq, Balkans, Iran, Cote d'Ivoire, Indonesia and arms trafficking
(EU) EU/IRELAND/NICE TREATY: 19% "Don't knows" ahead of Saturday's referendum - National Forum on Europe organising meetings
(EU) EP/PES/THE NETHERLANDS:
(EU) EU/ISRAEL/HUMAN RIGHTS:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/GENERAL AFFAIRS: Danish Presidency to submit to Fifteen, on Tuesday, draft conclusions for the Brussels Summit focusing on enlargement and Kaliningrad
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Little progress during negotiating meetings on Friday
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Sweden reaffirms its opposition to direct farm aid to future Member States
(EU) EU/ISRAEL: Europeans envisage arbitration procedure or duties on "Made in Israel" products from colonies
(EU) EU/SWITZERLAND: Negotiations on cooperation on fraud make headway, except regarding "dual criminality" and "laundering"
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/GMO:
(EU) EU/STABILITY PACT: Prodi, who "doesn't regret a word" of what he said over Pact's rigidity, at EP on Monday - Unease in EP and in capitals
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Political agreement at Council on rules to transpose into the EU the Cartagena Protocol on linking future EU GMO labelling and traceability regulations (agreement on which is expected in December)
(EU) EU/FRAUD: Olaf opens 552 new cases - increase in suspicions of fraud at Commission
(EU) EU/BUDGET/JUSTICE: Convention on the protection of the Communities' financial interests took effect on 17 October
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: Gplus pulls out of contract with DG Press
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: Threat of strike action over "phoney" exams
(EU) EU/CHINA: Lamy expects intense dialogue with China
(EU) EP/SECOND OCTOBER SESSION: Shimon Peres to attend on Thursday - Goebbels report on market manipulation - Podesta report on Disaster Fund - Sakharov Prize
(EU) EU/WTO: Director General's report on the state of progress of negotiations toward Doha process
(EU) EU/WTO/MACEDONIA:
(EU) EU/TEXTILES:
(EU) EU/TECHNOLOGIES:
(EU) EP/CULTURE: Fraisse report calls for a European Conference on cultural policies and for expansion of theatre and entertainment
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: In favour of greater stability of ships carrying passengers
TIMETABLE
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SUPPLEMENT
EUROPE/Documents No. 2291/2292 EU: Enlargement: reports on Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey
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