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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8393

5 February 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 38 / 47
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) privatisation

- Czech Republic/Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Supreme Court has suspended the sale of the historic operator, BTC, as it considers the agreement "unfavourable" and marred by "excessive power". In October, the offer to purchase 65% of BTC by ADVENT INTERNATIONAL for the sum of EUR 250 million had been accepted. Furthermore, the Czech government cancelled the sale of 51% of CESKY TELECOM to DEUTSCHE BANK. The latter has not managed to come to an agreement with KPN and SWISSCOM for buying up their 27%...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The students of Louvain-la-Neuve have not understood the role of the EU in general and that of Pascal Lamy in particular in preparing the new round of world trade negotiations
TEXTS OF THE WEEK
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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: After agreement with Poland, final version of Accession Treaty should be approved on Wednesday
(EU) EU/IRAQ: Papandreou raises Iraqi crisis with Middle Eastern leaders (and with Powell) - Prodi insists on a single European voice
(EU) EU/FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM: Barnier and Patten stress "special responsibility" of Paris and London regarding external action
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Silvio Berlusconi in favour of creation of "consultative, permanent even, body"
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/REGIONS/COMMISSION: Prodi places emphasis on dialogue with territorial authorities, while respecting internal organisation of States
(EU) EP/CONVENTION/REGIONS: Luciano Caveri calls for cultural and linguistic differences to be recognised in the future Constitution
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/EUROPEAN MOVEMENT: European Movements of France and Germany stress "institutional efforts" are not enough
(EU) EU/CAUCASUS: EU again calls for release of Médecin sans frontières member kidnapped in August in northern Caucasus
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/SERVICES/WTO: Commission to present its initial offer on services on Wednesday
(EU) EU/TAKEOVER BID: Germany and United Kingdom will make common stand on takeover directive - First Council inventory on 3 March on discussions relating to multiple voting rights
(EU) EU/IRAN: Chris Patten reminds Iranians that negotiations in view of trade agreement are closely linked to progress over talks on other issues, in particular political dialogue
(EU) EU/IMMIGRATION/POLICE: Commission proposal for shouldering costs of desporations undertaken by one Member State on request of another
(EU) EU/JHA/ELDR/SEMINAR:
(EU) EDUCATION COUNCIL: Ministers to discuss Europe of knowledge, European benchmarks and eLearning multiannual programme on Thursday
(EU) EU/ECONOMY/FRANCE: Increase in France's deficit in 2002 - Commission ready to launch new procedure in case 3% is exceeded
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: France presents its contribution to the debate on the simplification of rural development programmes
(EU) EU/FISHERIES/SPAIN:
(EU) EU/ARGENTINA: Argentina should be authorised to market wine treated with malic acid - imminent signing of EU/Argentina "wine" agreement
(EU) EU/HUMANITARIAN AID: Commission grants additional 5 million euro to emergency food aid operations in Ethiopia
(EU) EU/TRADE:
(EU) EU/POLLUTION/BALTIC:
(EU) EU/JUSTICE:
(EU) EU/TERRORISM:
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT/Space: Ulrich Stockmann proposes Galileo compromise to Italy and Germany
(EU) EP/PALESTINE: MEPs who call for investigative committee on aid to Palestinian Authority assure initiative aimed neither against Palestinians nor Commission
(EU) EU/ECB/ENLARGEMENT: Council forwards recommendation for amending voting system to ECB Governing Council
(EU) EU/EDUCATION/SOCIAL PARTNERS:
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/FSC:
(EU) EP/INFORMATION SOCIETY: During public hearing consumer and industrial policy makers express opinon on third generation mobile communications
(EU) EP/SOCIAL/CONVENTION: Discussion day on general interest services demonstrates need for 'constitutionalising' services
(EU) EP/VIETNAM: According to Marco Pannella, EU/Vietnam agreement should have been denounced long ago
(EU) EP/PRESIDENT COX:
(EU) EU/COLLOQUIA: Programme of European seminars in February 2003
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Eurostat counts on fall in inflation to 2.1%
(EU) UN/NORTH KOREA:
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
(EU) Privatisation:
(EU) Investment:
(EU) Agri-foods:
(EU) Agri-foods:
(EU) Chemicals:
(EU) Environment:
(EU) Electronics:
(EU) Internet:
(EU) Real estate:
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 04/02/2003: