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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8637
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/tripartite summit of berlin

Frattini has some worries

Brussels, 03/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Questioned by La Stampa on Tuesday on the Franco-German-British summit on 18 February in Berlin (not only will Jacques Chirac, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder be taking part but also their foreign affairs, economics and finance ministers), the Italian minister of foreign affairs Franco Frattini complained that each initiative, even symbolic ones gave the impression that division was not useful to Europe. He also said that he always found these...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Is the "defence" plank of the Constitution really up to scratch and a definite achivement? Some surprising conclusions by Convention member Hubert Haenel
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/ITALY: left excited about unity list- Mr Padoa-Schioppa, de la BCE, candidates from DS? - Silvio Berlusconi confirms he wants electoral law amended
(EU) EP/GERMANY: MS Kaufmann leads PDS list
(EU) EP/LUXEMBOURG: Jean Asselborn heads Socialist list, as he did in 1999
(EU) EU/EP/CYPRUS: Law allows Turkish Cypriots to take part in elections
(EU) EU/COMMISSION/ENLARGEMENT: Ambassador Peter Balazs candidate for job as Hungarian Commissioner
(EU) EU/TRIPARTITE SUMMIT OF BERLIN: Frattini has some worries
(EU) EU/ANTI-SEMITISM: In Vienna Prodi calls for vigilance - Nobel prize for peace to Elie Wiesel at 19 February seminar on anti-semitism
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST:
(EU) EU/TERRORISM:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT/RYANAIR: Commission asks Ryanair to pay back part of aid - Irish airline to appeal
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Philippe Busquin stresses need to step up financing for research, space and security
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Networking research in plant genomics
(EU) EU/RESEARCH/MEXICO:
(EU) EU/RESEARCH:
(EU) EU/2004 BUDGET/ENLARGEMENT: Budget adjusted for accession of ten new Member States on 1 May
(EU) EU/BUDGET: Commission tightens up anti-fraud alert system
(EU) EU/2004 BUDGET/JHA: Commission proposes 1.2 million EUR to set up European Data Protection Supervisor
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission investigates Polish electricity aid
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Sardinian hotel sector may be enjoying too favourable subsidy regime
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission investigates subsidies to Dutch public radio
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE/PARMALAT: Fischler considers Italian aid to milk producers could be accepted, subject to conditions
(EU) EU/AVIAN FLU: EU extends embargo measures by six months
(EU) ACP/EU: Trade negotiations between EU and eastern and southern Africa to be launched on 7 February in Mauritius
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Commission proposes ban on bottomtrawl fishing in remote areas
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY: Commission to draw up balance sheet of progress in electronic communications sector in view of forthcoming spring summit
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Council adopts agreement on single European sky
(EU) EU/PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: Directives definitively adopted
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Unemployment level remains unchanged in December 2003
(EU) EU/EESC/ENLARGEMENT:
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT/EURO: European Exchange Rate Mechanism is not a "waiting room" for countries hoping to adopt the euro, Solbes warns
(EU) EU/EURO/ITALY:
(EU) EU/OECD/INFORMATION SOCIETY: Erkki Liikanen calls for more international cooperation to combat 'spam'
(EU) EU/EIB: EUR 60 million loan to Böhler-Uddeholm Group for production modernisation and R&D
(EU) EU/EIB: EUR 50 million Global Loan to Finnvera
(EU) EP/FEBRUARY SESSION: Several reports withdrawn
(EU) EP/WORKING HOURS: Alejandro Cercas' own initiative report criticises abusive use of individual opt out clauses and calls for clear Commission stance on all points of directive to be reviewed
(EU) EP/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS/COHESION:
(EU) EU/COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE: President Vesterdorf rejects Euro-Armenian appeal as manifestly unfounded
(EU) OECD/MIGRATION: Evolution of international migration reflects growing immigration for work reasons
SUPPLEMENT
EUROPE/Document N° 2346-2347: European Commission contribution to Spring
European Council - Three priorities for reactivating Lisbon strategy
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