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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment

Margot Wallström to sound alarm at pan-European conference on biodiversity

Brussels, 16/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - Margot Wallström, Environment Commissioner, will be in Madrid early next week where she will, on 19 January, attend the third pan-European international conference on biodiversity in Europe, in preparation for the 7th conference of the parties of the United Nations framework convention on biodiversity to be held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) from 9 to 27 February (the ministerial session of this international conference wil be held from 17 to 19...

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(EU) EU/TURKEY: Addressing Turkish national assembly, Romano Prodi acknowledges that European public opinion is not unanimously in favour of Turkish accession to EU
(EU) EP/EPP: Mr Corniillet asks whether Parliament is expected to vote on a resolution requesting a constitution before 1st May
(EU) EP/EPP/IGC: Gil-Robles calls for consensus on majority at Council without making Convention system "sacred"
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(EU) EU/GEORGIA: In Tbilissi Solana raises Georgia's relationship with Russia
(EU) EU/UN: Visit of Kofi Annan on 28-29 January to Brussels
(EU) EP/COLOMBIA: MEPs protest at invitation of president Uribe
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(EU) UE/HAITI: EU expresses concern calling for political dialogue to be resumed
(EU) UE/ECUADOR: EU support for continuation of reforms
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(EU) EU/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Commission to reach decision 10 February
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: College to adopt its spring report next Wednesday
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: On next Tuesday's agenda, presidency and Commission programmes, four countries' convergence programmes, Kok report and issue of reduced VAT
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE/STABILITY PACT: Commission has until 4 February to send its appeal against Ecofin council's decision
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Consensual survey in Galway about incentives to work, future of relations between social partners and balance between flexibility and job security
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: New rules on licensing soon to be finalised
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/AIR TRANSPORT: Most Member States confirm reservations on armed police presence on transatlantic flights
(EU) EU/WTO: Petitions from eight of eleven countries which successfully challenged Byrd amendment
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/SPACE: Commission says "yes" to President Bush's appeal for international co-operation in space exploration
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(EU) EU/LATIN AMERICA: Chris Patten on visit to Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador next week
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Margot Wallström to sound alarm at pan-European conference on biodiversity
(EU) EU/GMOs: Commission defines system to allow each GMO to be identified throughout food chain
(EU) EU/EUROMED/ECB: After Naples seminar, ECB foresees similar events with other « neighbouring countries such as Russia"
(EU) EU/WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Fourth Social Forum opens in Bombay before Parliamentary Forum, with some thirty Europeans
(EU) EU/BUDGET:
(EU) EP/IMMIGRATION: Parliament proposes legal immigration in line with job market needs
(EU) EP/IMMIGRATION: Parliament confirms support for creation of European border-guard body
(EU) EP/TAXATION: EP approves extension by two years of reduced VAT rates for certain labour-intensive services
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(EU) EP/DEVELOPMENT: EP wants to curb trade in bush meat
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(EU) EU/JUSTICE/HOME AFFAIRS: Mitigated assessment just four months from deadline set in Amsterdam and Tampere for creating Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
(EU) EU/FRAUD/TABAC: US Appelate Court confirms first instance rulings on cigarette smuggling
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Definitive decision from Dutch administraive authority will have to be re-examined if it turns out to be against Community law as interpreted by Court in former ruling on this decision
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