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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8392

4 February 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 42 / 43
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENTS / European library
No. 537

*** HEINRICH SCHNEIDER, MATTHIAS JOPP, UWE SCHMALZ (Ed.): Eine neue deutsche Europapolitik? Rahmenbedingungen - Problemfelder - Optionen. Europa Union Verlag (32 Bachstr., D-53115 Bonn. Internet: http: //www.europa-union.de/buecher). "Europäische Schriften" series from the Institut für Europäische Politik, No. 77. 2002, 864 pp. ISBN 3-7713-0606-X.

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Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The difference between the Fifteen over Iraq have nothing to do with the work of the Convention on CFSP and must not influence it
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/IRAQ: Greek Presidency may announce initiatives after Security Council meeting - Papandreou to go to Israel and Palestine with Javier Solana - MEPs meet Iraqi parliamentarians, international organisations and NGOs in Baghdad
(EU) EU/FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM:
(EU) EU/TREATY OF NICE: Treaty's entry into force opens way to the largest enlargement in the Union's history, the Greek Presidency underlines
(EU) EP/CONVENTION: Duff-Dini proposal on unified presidency for Union
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: On Wednesday, Presidium to complete drafting of first draft articles
(EU) EU/NATO:
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/REGIONS: Friday's plenary debate on role of Europe's towns and regions - common position of regional associations - British proposals
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN CONVENTION/EUROPEAN MOVEMENT: Gil-Robles prepares "Finnish style solution" for EU Presidency
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Open letter by Fourth World European Committee
(EU) EP/CONVENTION/RELIGION: Olivier Duhamel opposes reference to God in the Constitution
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ALBANIA: Prodi assures Tirana of EU's support in European integration process - First round of negotiations on 13 February
(EU) EU/CHILE: Trade Association Agreement takes effect
(EU) EU/SPACE/UNITED STATES: Philippe Busquin stresses courage of astronauts who died in the space shuttle Colombia explosion
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Yakis points out Turkey hopes to meet Copenhagen criteria from end 2003
(EU) EU/MALTA: Labour opposition calls for "no" vote at referendum
(EU) EU/SWITZERLAND: Swiss Minister confirms Confederation may take stance on requesting membership during next legislature
(EU) EU/ECONOMY/OIL: France and Spain hope for common EU reaction against rise in oil prices
(EU) EU/HEALTH/SOCIAL AFFAIRS: High Level Group on patient mobility co-chaired by Anna Diamantopoulou and David Byrne
(EU) EU/HEALTH/DEVELOPMENT: David Byrne and Poul Nielson participate in round table on combating smoking in developing countries
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Regulation cutting export refunds for live cattle for slaughter comes into force
(EU) EU/ECSC: Council adopts three decisions addressing post-ECSC
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Go ahead for UCB's acquisition of Solutia chemical units
(EU) EU/COMPANY LAW: Following their election victory, Christian Democrats say they are not planning to increase Lower Saxony's stake in VW
(EU) EU/BRAZIL/WTO: Pascal Lamy notes certain hardening in negotiations over EU/Mercosur agreement - Confirmation of differences on access to medicines
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/FSC: Bill Thomas links Washington's attitude to FSC to EU stance on other trade disputes
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Council adopts common position on liberalising gas and electricity markets
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Council adopts common position on Intelligent Energy for Europe
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Commission proposes extending authorisation for use of antibiotic avilamycin as growth promoter in feed for turkeys
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: Commission prepares new legislation on nutritional content of food
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: European Commission hopes to promote car-sharing throughout EU territory and in candidate countries
(EU) EP/PALESTINE: Relevant EP Committees call on Cox to agree to creation of a working group to control aid to Palestine
(EU) EU/BALKANS: European and Macedonian deputies stress need to ratify Association Agreement
(EU) EP/EPP-ED:
(EU) EP/FEBRUARY SESSION: WTO negotiations, Spring Summit, ecopoints, health, information society and consumer policy - EU/Chile agreement
(EU) EU/LANGUAGES: EBLUL proposes creation of agency to promote linguistic diversity
(EU) EU/EIB: Loan to Dominican business banks with view to financing medium-sized projects in the private sector
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Unemployment remains stable in euro zone in December - up 0.1% in European Union
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Industrial producer prices rise in December
SUPPLEMENT
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WEEKLY SUPPLEMENTS
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