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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8473

31 May 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto
WTO lacks new meeting over industrial products

Brussels/Geneva, 30/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - The 147 countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will not meet on 31 May, date on which they had hoped set the terms for the negotiations over market access for industrial products in the framework of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA).

'We missed the deadline,' noted the Swiss Ambassador Pierre-Louis Girard, on Wednesday, when closing three days of talks concerning the proposals he had submitted for initial reactions - in this case highly...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Three simultaneous decisions reveal Europe's pride in space sector - Significant contributions to Common Security and Defence Policy and EU presence in advanced technologies
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Convention Members remain divided on activating threshold for reinforced operations
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Many Convention members "disappointed" by economic government support for idea of a "Minister of the economy"
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Draft preamble puts "spiritual impulse", always present in European heritage, and "philosophical currents of the Enlightenment" on equal footing- reference to "equality of persons, freedom, respect for reason"
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Mr Duff feels draft preamble is "too flowery"
(EU) EU/FYROM:
(EU) EU/NETHERLANDS:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/HEALTH/SOCIAL: On Monday and Tuesday, EU Health and Social Affairs Ministers examine draft Directive on cells and tissues as well as 'medicines' and 'employment 2003' package
(EU) EU/JUSTICE: Commission's anti-corruption proposals
(EU) UEU/ECOFIN: Fiscal package, Italy's milk quotas and slide of French state finances on agenda of Tuesday's meeting
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Works on 'investment services' progress, but disagreement remains over price transparency before sale of over the counter shares
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Change in conduct for sustainable development at heart of Green Week (Brussels, 2-5 June)
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Signing of declaration between Commission, Ukraine and Poland to reinforce EU oil supply
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT: 25 discuss prospects for political development aid of enlarged Union
(EU) EU/MERCOSUR: Further requests for tariff dismantling on goods under free trade negotiations with Mercosur
(EU) EU/ASYLUM/STATISTICS:
(EU) EU/WTO: WTO lacks new meeting over industrial products
(EU) EU/WTO/GMO:
(EU) EU/G8: Against backdrop of post-war Iraq, leaders of world's wealthiest countries meet in Evian to tackle planet's problems
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Spanish Ferrovial (construction) authorised to take over Amey
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Green light to purchase of Centerpulse by Smith & Nephew
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: France, Spain, Portugal request remote regions to be exempt from decoupling and degression of aid
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Walloon region seeking to be railway axis for Brussels-Luxembourg-Strasbourg
(EU) EU/BORDERS:
(EU) EU/EURO/GERMANY:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Commission proposes improved co-ordination of social protection policies at EU level
(EU) EU/TOBACCO: David Byrne supports World No Tobacco Day on the theme "Tobacco free fashion and film"
(EU) EU/POLICE:
(EU) EU/UNIONS: Prague, Jacques Delors praises trade unionism and appeals for setting up pact for coordinating macro-economic policy- Briton John Monks, new secretary general
(EU) EU/EPIDEMIC: Avian Influenza soon to be eradocated in Belgium and Germany
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Presentation of a study on potential of wind power in 2020
(EU) EU/CALENDAR: Main European activities 1-9 June 2003
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