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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8561

11 October 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 41 / 41
TIMETABLE / € value in different currencies on 10/10/2003

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: "Christian roots" in the Constitution? Yes, on one condition - Receipt for overcoming artificial rivalry between large, medium and small countries - Against demagogy in farming
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/GENERAL AFFAIRS: Monday will be a tough day for Foreign Ministers who must prepare the European Council, continue work at the IGC and discuss the situation in the rest of the world
(EU) EU/HUMAN RIGHTS: EU pleased at Nobel peace prize to Iranian, Shirin Ebadi
(EU) EU/FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: Commission to present interpretative communication on Article 7 of treaty on Wednesday
(EU) EU/WEU: Council report to assembly on European defence
(EU) EU/Brussels summit: EPP, PES and ELDR meeting in Meise and Brussels on eve of european council
(EU) EP/ENLARGEMENT:
(EU) EP/MOROCCO:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE-FISHERIES COUNCIL: Reform of olive oil, cotton and Irish Box on meeting programme for Monday
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: EUR 2.44 million for promoting olive oil
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Transport Council reached three political agreements in field of air transport
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Inquiry into Belgian international removals market
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Lagardère must make major concessions to buy VUP
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Agreement in sight between Sonatrach and ENI on gas supply contracts
(EU) EU/TAXATION:
(EU) EU/CULTURE: French and Germans wish to generalise fixed price for books within enlarged European Union
(EU) EU/RUSSIA/WTO: Things are clarified between Moscow and Brussels
(EU) EU/WTO: Move to relaunching round of talks
(EU) EP/USA: EP puts pressure on Commission over airline passenger data before visit of Commissioner Bolkestein to Washington - move to filtering data by national authorities
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EP/BUDGET 2003: Green light to 56 million EUR for Spain and Italy under EU solidarity funds
(EU) EP/SPACE: European Parliament concerned at crisis in European space industry and calls for extra public investment
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Speed limit directive adopted
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Parliament brings a few amendments to draft directive on aircraft safety in third countries
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Parliament vote amends directive on safety in tunnels
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Parliament calls for measures to protect apiculture from insecticides and forest fires
(EU) EP/FISHERIES: Parliament accepts renewal of third country partnership agreements but with certain conditions
(EU) EU/MERCOSUR:
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT:
(EU) EU/FOODSTUFFS: Regulation on smoke flavourings adopted
(EU) EU/ACP: Joint parliamentary assembly meets in Rome (11-15 October)
(EU) EU/ASIA: Informal EU/ASEM meeting on environment
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY: According to Commission study, public investment in administration is pays dividends
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY: Three companies to be awarded IST prize
(EU) EU/EIB: EIB loan to Latvia for SME projects
(EU) COURT OF JUSTICE: Peter Jann of Austria and Christiaan Timmermans of the Netherlands are elected presidents of two five-judge Chambers
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: BEUC calls for a Constitution guaranteeing the interests of citizens/consumers to be drafted
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT:
TIMETABLE
:
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 10/10/2003:
 USD  1.1788  CHF  1.5500  EEK  15.6466  ROL  38591  HKD  9.1177 
 JPY  127.85  ISK  89.17  HUF  254.45  SIT  235.8000  NZD  1.9654 
 DKK  7.4292  NOK  8.2270  LTL  3.4524  SKK  41.270  SGD  2.0326 
 GBP  0.70845  BGN  1.9473  LVL  0.6514  TRL  1641000  KRW  1352.26 
 SEK  9.0020  CYP  0.58449  MTL  0.4296  AUD  1.7056  ZAR  8.1512 
 CZK  32.105  PLN  4.5466  CAD