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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/epp/convention/defence

Angela Merkel in favour of Commission President/President of European Council - Foreign policy: seeking common positions before defining national positions - Mini-summit on defence gives "wrong sign"

Brussels, 29/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - The presidents of the CDU and CSU, Angela Merkel and Edmund Stoiber, plan to explain their position to Chairman Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, on Wednesday, on the proposals made to date by the European Convention. This was announced on Tuesday in Brussels by Angela Merkel after the "Grand Conference of the Presidents of the CDU and CSU political groups" (at the federal level and in the Länder), with the president of the EPP-ED Group at the EP, Hans-Gert...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Can Convention reach consensus for text on institutional reform? Perplexities and hopes
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: "Mini summit of the four" on defence presents seven concrete initiatives for "strengthening European pillar of NATO" and suggestions to Convention for developing strengthened cooperation
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Javier Solana in Moscow on Wednesday
(EU) EP/DEFENCE:
(EU) EP/TURKEY:
(EU) EU/CFSP/CFDP/UNITED STATES:
(EU) EP/EPP/CONVENTION/DEFENCE: Angela Merkel in favour of Commission President/President of European Council - Foreign policy: seeking common positions before defining national positions - Mini-summit on defence gives "wrong sign"
(EU) EU/CONVENTION:
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(EU) EU/CZECH REPUBLIC:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/WTO/SERVICES: EU unveils "ambitious" offer protecting European public services and genuinely open up markets for developing countries in particular
(EU) EU/BALKANS/FRAUD:
(EU) EU/STATE AID:
(EU) EU/ECB: Unanimous approval for Gertrud Tumpel-Gugerell's nomination to ECB Governing Council on Parliament's Economic Affairs Committee
(EU) EU/ECB: ECB considers it accomplished its duty in 2002 - Papademos sees improvement in economic conditions
(EU) EU/JUSTICE: Dutch Justice Minister proposes creation of European jurisdiction with right to carry out investigation and judgement, but limited to several crimes of transnational dimension
(EU) EU/JUSTICE: Call for better cooperation between Member States at inauguration of Eurojust premises
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Commission adopts action plan to increase research in Europe
(EU) EU/EPIDEMICS: Chicken flu epidemic to cost at least EUR 70 million
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Plan to establish integrated EuroMed energy market (gas, electricity and oil) is being considered
(EU) EP/ENERGY:
(EU) EP/SOCIAL: Smet report calls on Convention for clarification of open coordination method and its incorporation into future Constitutional treaty
(EU) EP/PETITIONS/EDUCATION: Foreign lecturers in Italy protest against discrimination suffered
(EU) EP/CONSUMERS:
(EU) EP/INTERNAL MARKET: Frits Bolkestein presents dossiers in progress
(EU) EP/DRUGS: Marco Cappato hopes that Commission will discuss with United States end to 'prohibitionist' practices
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(EU) PE/CUBA:
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