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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8412

4 March 2003
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention/epp
EPP wants European foreign minister and opposes idea of full-time President of the European Council

Bonn, 03/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - In a meeting behind closed doors in Petersberg (close to Bonn) on Friday to Sunday, the European People's Party (chaired by Wilfried Martens) confirmed its opposition to the Franco-German idea of a full-time President of the European Council, calling for a strengthening of the role of the President of the European Commission and the creation of a European foreign minister with their own diplomatic corps. Both Wilfried Martens and Elmar Brok, President of...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: For Valery Giscard d'Estaing, neither defence Europe nor, most likely, the common foreign policy, will be achieved among 25
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/EPP: EPP wants European foreign minister and opposes idea of full-time President of the European Council
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Commission confident that Polish crisis and election of Vaclav Klaus in Czech Republic will not have a negative impact on ratification of Accession Treaties
(EU) EU/CYPRUS: UN wants both sides to respond by 10 March so reunification referendum can be held before signing of EU Accession Treaty
(EU) EU/SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO:
(EU) EU/TERRORISM:
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Additional informal sessions to continue discussing draft articles - Lively debate over sharing of competences
(EU) EU/INSTITUTIONS/SPAIN/UINTED KINGDOM: Proposals to strengthen institutions before giving Council more continuity
(EU) EU/JORDAN: Steps to prevent economic consequences of war against Iraq
(EU) WEU/ASSEMBLY: Seminar in Athens on transatlantic relations
(EU) EU/IRAQ/SEMINAR:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS: Council reaches political guidelines for creating Community patent
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS: Council adopts contribution to Spring Summit
(EU) EU/SPRING SUMMIT: France insists on recognition of services of a general interest in contribution to European Council
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT/UNITED STATES/DATA PROTECTION:
(EU) EU/AVIAN FLU/NETHERLANDS:
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS: France and United Kingdom present contribution in perspective of action plan on entrepreneurship
(EU) EU/STABILITY PACT: On 17 March, Eurostat should certify the figure of a deficit of -3.02 announced by France, assuring that it is "keeping on course", despite the economic situation
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Environmental liability, protection of forests, preparation of Spring Summit, quality of bathing waters and GMOs on agenda of Tuesday's Council
(EU) EU/PRESTIGE DISASTER: On Wednesday, Commission to approve report on Community measures taken following sinking of Prestige
(EU) EU/EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Postponement of the communication on "neighbours of the enlarged Europe"
(EU) EU/RUSSIA/ENVIRONMENT: European Troika goes to Russia to convince Government of swiftly deposit its draft ratification of Kyoto Protocol
(EU) EMPLOYMENT/SOCIAL COUNCIL: Ministers to tackle preparation of Spring Summit 2003, institutionalisation of tripartite Social Summit and temporary work on Thursday
(EU) EU/TRADE UNIONS: Action day throughout Europe the same day as the Spring Summit
(EU) EU/TOBACCO: David Byrne hails "historic WHO agreement" on combatting dangers of smoking
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: Agreement to harmonise to some extent the penalties on attacks on computer systems
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL/FINES:
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL/SCHENGEN/NORWAY/ICELAND:
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL/SCHENGEN:
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL/LUGANO CONVENTION:
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL/EUROJUST:
(EU) EU/GMOS: On Wednesday, Commission to discuss a paper by Fischler recommending leaving it up to Member States to deal with the problem of co-existence - Only Denmark has properly transposed the "dissemination" directive
(EU) EU/EDUCATION/INFORMAL EDUCATION COUNCIL: Brussels Summit calls for education policy independent of economic side - Viviane Reding believes education should remain under Member State responsibility
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: European information in Arab
(EU) EU/SOCIAL:
(EU) OECD/SOCIAL:
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Viviane Reding to officially launch of PLOTEUS Portal in Brussels on 5 March
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Berkshire Hathaway and Converium authorised to acquire joint control of GAUM
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission clears TotalFinaElf's acquisition of UK gas supply business of Mobil Gas Limited
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL DIALOGUE:
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