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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8540
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ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) insurance

Germany's MUNICH RE is considering cutting its 26% stake in HVB - HYPOVEREINSBANK to as low as 10%. Its stake is currently worth around EUR 2.3 bn.

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: European Defence and Security Policy debate relaunched by Michel Barnier (who supports draft Convention) and Philippe Busquin (for a European Security Research Programme)
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/SWEDEN: Europe in mourning after tragic assasination of Anna Lindh
(EU) EP/IRAQ: Parliament's foreign affairs committee puts priority on security and provision of services in Iraq
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: EU encourages future Palestinian government to continue work of Mahmoud Abbas
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: Spain buys 24 "Tiger helicopters"
(EU) EU/IGC/IRELAND: John Temple Lang insists on full-time Commissioner per Member State and highlights other “faults” with the Convention draft
(EU) EU/IGC: European Policy Centre calls for transparent IGC
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN MOVEMENT/FRANCE/CONSTITUTION:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EP/ECB: Economic and monetary affairs committee at EP supports Mr Trichet's nomination
(EU) EU/HAMAS/TERRORISM:
(EU) EU/FIRES: Portugal is hoping for EUR 48.5 million in aid from Solidarity Fund - budgetary trilogue on 23 September to examine different requests
(EU) EU/EUROSTAT AFFAIR: Franchet's lawyers fight back
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: VAT, IGC and French and German deficit on agenda of informal Ecofin meeting on 12 and 13 September in Stresa
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Ecofin ministers expected to specify their positions for IGC during informal Council in Stresa (autonomy of Eurogroup, excessive deficit, budgetary procedures)
(EU) EU/ECOFIN:
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: First debate on reduced VAT rates at Informal Council in Stresa is expected to be difficult
(EU) EU/STABILITY PACT: Intense bargaining to find way out of problem on French public deficit
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Budgetary deficit and public debt of ten future new members increase in 2002 but situation varies considerably from one country to next
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Turkey launches information campaign in EU to convince people its candidature for membership is valid
(EU) ECB/STABILITY PACT:
(EU) ECG/IGC:
(EU) EU/EURO/SWEDEN:
(EU) EP/WTO: 27 MEPs in Cancun
(EU) EU/WTO: 146 go to core of Cancun negotiations
(EU) EU/CHINA/SOUTH KOREA: Commissioner Erkki Liikanen to visit South Korea and China - Peking welcomes Commission document on strengthening EU/China partnership
(EU) EU/AFGHANISTAN: Commission seeks increase in aid to Afghan authority to combat lack of security threatening the lives of humanitarian personnel
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Margot Wallström hails Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: NGOs send George Bush open letter calling for end to US campaign to undermine proposed reforms of EU chemicals policy
(EU) EP/ENERGY: Claude Turmes slams pro-nuclear bias of hydrogen Communication
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Council Ecopoints Regulation 2000 to remain in force save for reduction in ecopoints over several years
(EU) EU/BROADCASTING: Syracuse Council to consider whether to rewrite Television without Frontiers Directive
(EU) EP/CONSUMERS: European Parliament's Legal Committee wants plenary to get Commission to take a new look at consumer credit
(EU) EU/BROADCASTING:
(EU) EU/EIB: EUR 40 million scheme for private sector in Syria
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: Discussion of Van Miert and Sapir reports
(EU) EU/WTO: COPA-COGECA calls for European agriculture to be defended in Cancun
(EU) EU/WTO:
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