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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8473

31 May 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 34 / 34
GENERAL NEWS / € value in different currencies on 30/05/2003

Contents

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
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 30/05/2003:
 USD  1.1822  CHF  1.5277  EEK  15.6466  ROL  38107  HKD  9.2195 
 JPY  140.31  ISK  84.77  HUF  249.73  SIT  233.2000  NZD  2.0499 
 DKK  7.4244  NOK  7.8785  LTL  3.4523  SKK  41.185  SGD  2.0446 
 GBP  0.71960  BGN  1.9465  LVL  0.6610  TRL  1688000  KRW  1425.73 
 SEK  9.1500  CYP  0.58703  MTL  0.4310  AUD  1.8136  ZAR  9.5451 
 CZK  31.333  PLN  4.4072  CAD