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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8474

3 June 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid
Commission approves several emergency aid decisions

Brussels, 02/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has approved the decision to grant several humanitarian aid allocations to countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America for a total of some EUR 3 million. These funds, which come from the budget of ECHO (the European Community's Humanitarian Aid Office), are distributed as follows:

Eritrea: EUR 1.3 million for urgent needs in drinking water, food aid and primary healthcare for populations suffering from malnutrition and drought.

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Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing dismisses idea of keeping the Nice institutional regime - Convention will not discuss enforcement of Constitution - Other stances
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Nine governments want inter-institutional agreement agreed in Nice to be kept
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Convention Members call for more qualified majority voting - Isolated, the UK continues to call for Charter of Fundamental Rights to form protocol annexed to future Constitutional Treaty
(EU) EU/REGIONS/CONSTITUTION/CONFERENCE:
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Praesidium presents text on institutions to prepare Wednesday's consultation with various Convention components, so that focus is on key issues (such as qualified majority) - "Congress" disappears - Clarification regarding president of European Council, European Commission and Parliament
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/Commission: Mr Prodi confirms his disappointment at institutional draft on table - a plea for qualified majority
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/ITALY:
(EU) EP/CONVENTION:
(EU) EP/CONVENTION:
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/IRELAND:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Council finalises assessment of legislative package on medicines for human use by protecting clinical data for ten years - Centralised procedure to be restricted to new medicines for cancer, AIDS, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Council reaches agreement on directive on safety and quality norms for human cells and tissue
(EU) EU/HUMANITARIAN AID: Commission approves several emergency aid decisions
(EU) EU/COMMISSION:
(EU) EU/EUROGROUP: Discussions on French and German state deficits, Euro exchange rate and interest rate
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT:
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT:
(EU) EU/IMMIGRATION: Commission calls for additional EUR 140 million over three years for visas and border control - New Communications on asylum and immigration
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: St Petersburg Summit reiterates objective of reinforcing "partnership" and creating common area for economic issues, liberty, justice and external security in long-term
(EU) EU/G8:
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Eight texts on financial services to be adopted by April 2004, says 8th report on "financial service" action plan
(EU) EU/CO-OPERATIVES AND MUTUALS:
(EU) EU/TRADE UNIONS: Results of trade union congress in Prague - resolution is adopted to attention of Convention
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Inflation rate estimated at 1.9% in May
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EP/ENERGY: prospect of European Parliament positive vote on liberalisation of internal energy market dossier
(EU)EP/ENVIRONMENT: For binding European legislation on coexistence of conventional crops and GMOs
(EU) EP/UNITED STATES/PRIVACY: Belgian privacy regulator steps in over the sharing of information about MEP Marco Cappato
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Philippe Busquin visits Morocco - Signing of EU/Morocco scientific and technical cooperation agreement imminent
(EU) EU/TRADE PROTECTION: Anti-dumping measures decided concerning imports of polyethylene terephthalate and salmon
(EU) EU/RESEARCH:
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