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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8412

4 March 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Berkshire Hathaway and Converium authorised to acquire joint control of GAUM

Brussels, 03/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control by the US holding company Berkshire Hathaway and the Swiss reinsurance company Converium of the UK undertaking Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers Limited ("GAUM"), previously jointly controlled by the UK insurance companies Aviva and Royal & Sun Alliance. Berkshire Hathaway is a US based holding company engaged in various business activities, the most important of which are...

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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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