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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8333

4 November 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/media
Greens/EFA Conference on media and democracy

Brussels, 04/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Greens/European Free Alliance Group is organising, on 13 November, at the European Parliament in Brussels, a conference entitled "Media, power and democracy". Four round tables will successively cover: (1) media concentration and globalisation with, notably, German Green member Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Christine Ockrent (France 3) and Shella Cassells (BskyB); (2) "Media and politics: who controls whom?" with Italian Green member Reinhold Messner, Freimut...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Lively exchange of ideas between Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair suggests profound differences regarding European agriculture - rights and wrongs on the two sides and what's at stake
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TURKEY: EU's cautious response, who's going to judge government's action - AKP reasserts its European commitment
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Next plenary to hold first debate on social Europe and discuss coordination of economic, security and justice policies, and related policies
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/ITALY:
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/ITALY:
(EU) EP/GERMANY:
(EU) EU/BALKANS: Provisions of agreement govern working of police mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina
(EU) EU/ARMAMENTS: Colloquium on 5 November with Robertson, Solana, Patten, Cox and representatives of the arms industry
(EU) WEU/DEFENCE/UNITED STATES:
(EU) EU/EUROMEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT/POLAND: Truszczynski cautiously confident EU financial offer could be improved
(EU) EU/MOROCCO: Visit by Morocco's Foreign Minister is postponed again
(EU) EU/COMPANY LAW: Chairman of Expert Group Jaap Winter presents report on corporate governance to Ecofin Council
(EU) EU/USA: Mr Ridge and Commission discuss co-operation against terrorism
(EU) EU/GCC: EU expects Ryad to join WTO before relaunching negotiations with the Gulf
(EU) EU/Vietnam: Negotiations on WTO accession
(EU) EU/WTO/SHIPYARDS:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: PROCEDURE AGAINST MICROSOFT CONTINUES
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: With lack of evidence, Commission closes cartel proceedings against Carlsberg and Heineken
(EU) EU/VAT: Commission takes Italy to Court of Justice for refunding delays
(EU) EU/CLIMATE CHANGE: For the Union, COP8 improved chances of seeing the Kyoto Protocol enter into force, but this result is insufficient
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY: IST 2002 conference opens
(EU) EU/EMU: Greece expected to have a budget deficit in 2002 and 2003
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Production prices rise 0.3% in the euro zone
(EU) EU/EMU/UNITED KINGDOM:
(EU) EU/STABILITY PACT/FRANCE/GERMANY:
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/RUSSIA:
(EU) EU/DISASTERS/ITALY:
(EU) EU/BUDGET 2001: In its last report, Court of Auditors calls on Commission to reform its accounting system as soon as possible
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Additional aid intended for Kahla is illegal
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Inflation up 0.1% in October
(EU) EU/COMPETITION/ARMAMENTS: Go-ahead for a joint venture between SNPE and MBDA
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Finmeccanica authorised to acquire Marconi Mobile
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Karel Van Miert maintains that the Court failed to provide sufficient arguments for last week's judgements
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: Commission working on an e-confidence label
(EU) EU/ENTERPRISES/CONVENTION: UEAPME calls for independent representation of the crafts industry and SMEs in interprofessional social dialogue
(EU) EU/TRADE DEFENCE/CHINA: Partial review of antidumping measures
(EU) EU/COLLOQUIA: Conference on Asean on 25and 26 November
(EU) EP/PLENARY SESSION IN BRUSSELS: Declarations on Middle East, Iraq and North Korea, solidarity funds
(EU) EP/ENERGY: Budget increase allocated to "intelligent energy for Europe" programme
(EU) EP/SOCIAL: Van den Burg report calls for greater protection for temporary workers
(EU) EP/MEDIA: Greens/EFA Conference on media and democracy
(EU) EU/SWEDEN: Sven-Olof Petersson is new Head of Permanent Representation
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE: European Youth Ministers meet in Thessaloniki
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Conference on cultural policies in towns
(EU) EU/MEDICINES:
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