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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8557

7 October 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ue/competition
Green light for Papastratos buy out by Philip Morris

Brussels, 06/10/2003 (Agence Europe) -The Commission ahs authorised the Philip Morris the Dutch subsidiary of the Altria Group, Inc. It is a global company active in the manufacturing and selling of cigarettes under a number of brands, including Marlboro, L&M and Philip Morris. Papastratos is a Greek company, which also makes and distributes cigarettes mainly in Greece and Romania. Its best-known products include Assos and President. Whilst Philip Morris will become the market leader on the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: After failure at Cancun, EU must confirm and outline bases and principles for its trade policy - Pascal Lamy asks questions
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/IGC: Formal opening of Intergovernmental Conference tasked with completing constituent process - Spain and Poland defend pre-eminence of States and threaten whole process for a few votes in Council - Chirac, Schröder and Ciampi call on them to assume their responsibility
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: Decision on European "Headquarters" could be taken by end of 2003
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: EU Defence Ministers consider EU taking over SFOR in Bosnia mid-2004 both possible and desirable
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: "European Defence Agency" should be "set up" by the end of the year
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: Positive welcome for the Italian suggestion of pooling rapid intervention capacity and for the French suggestion of a "European police force" - Progress on “structured cooperation”?
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Israeli retaliation in Syria condemned - Europeans fear conflict could escalate
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: EU condemns suicide bombing in Israel
(EU) EU/RACISM:
(EU) EP/RUSSIA:
(EU) EU/COSAC:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/UKRAINE: Seventh summit between EU and Ukraine on Tuesday
(EU) EU/CANADA: Broad agreement on main international current affairs dossiers
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Growth initiative, investment services and lower VAT on agenda of Tuesday's meeting
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/JHC: Council extends possibilities for police observation of people on territory of other Member States
(EU) UE/ENVIRONNEMENT: First regional conference on integration of environnement and health into enlarged Union
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: EP Transport Committee calls for international and national (cabotage) goods transport by rail to be open to competition on 1 January 2006 and rail passenger transport to be open on 1 January 2008
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Cyprus and Malta promise to make progress regarding maritime security
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/MARITIME SAFETY/SEMINAR:
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT/ENERGY: WWF afraid Member States will not attain renewable energy objective -worries about respecting Kyoto Protocol, sounds alarm
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission concludes agreement with Gazprom and ENI to put end to restrictive practices on gas market
(EU) UE/COMPETITION: Green light for Papastratos buy out by Philip Morris
(EU) UE/CONCURRENCE: Green light to joint ventrue between SNPE, Saab and Patria
(EU) EU/SPORTS: Sports ministers want a reference to sport in the future Constitution
(EU) EU/TRADE UNIONS/IGC: In Rome, John Monks warned of weakening of Europe's social dimension
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/ROMANIA: Romanian authorities separate two married minors
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS:
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Towards swift renewal of scientific and technological co-operation agreement
(EU) EU/WTO/AGRICULTURE: COPA against "blind free trade"
(EU) EU/TRADE DEFENCE: Inquiry into ring-binder mechanisms
(EU) EU/EIB: 200 million EUR loan to Caixa
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Sales in European Union up 1.1%
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 568
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