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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8662

10 March 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Ministers spend one minute on reduced VAT dossier

Brussels, 09/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - "One minute". This is the time spent by Ecofin Ministers of the reduced VAT rates dossier on Tuesday, according to an institution source after the work finished. This short time apparently allowed the European Commissioner for taxation, Frits Bolkestein, to thank the Irish Presidency for having so quickly taken up its work around the note published at the end of February by the Commission (see EUROPE of 20 February, p.11), in which the Commission stated...

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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION: Although not yet an official position of Irish Presidency, double majority 55-55% option seems to be gaining ground
(EU) EP/POLITICAL GROUPS: If it joins Liberals, UDF will be in awkward position over Turkey, EPP President Hans-Gert Pöttering says
(EU) EU/EESC: Jacques Delors calls for climate of receptiveness between Member States and would like future Commission president to have collegial spirit at service of Member States
(EU) EU/IRAQ:
(EU) EU/EP/PORTUGAL:
(EU) EP/SPINELLI DRAFT/CORRIGENDUM:
(EU) EU/FUTURE OF THE EU: Lamy thinks "faulty" Europe should be guided and governed better
(EU) EU/NATO: NAC/COPS meeting
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/EUROGROUP: ECB executive board Appointment postponed till 25 March - Europe "should have more self-confidence to take advantage of world recovery"
(EU) EU/EURO/SWEDEN:
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Council reiterates firm message to Switzerland in tax on savings dossier, but stalemate persists
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Ministers spend one minute on reduced VAT dossier
(EU) EU/EUM: Germany ready to make addititonal efforts if necessary, to bring its deficit to below 3% of GDP in 2005
(EU) EU/STABILITY PACT:
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Contributions for European Council on Lisbon strategy and implementation of growth initiative
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Difficult negotiations on road infrastructure tariffs
(EU) EU/GALILEO: Council requests common Galileo project for a decision on future Galileo consortia by end of September 2004
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Luxembourg still opposed to opening up passenger transport, France relaxes its position
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Commission welcomes Council conclusions on Monday and confirms its aim to implement ambitious agenda for promoting information society
(EU) EU/EDUCATION/CITIZENSHIP: Commission adopts outlines of post-2006 programmes
(EU) EU/DISASTERS: Commission proposes EUR 21.9 million for measures related to natural disasters in Malta, France and Spain
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Italy agrees to modify "salva-calcio" decree
(EU) EU/WOMEN: Common declaration from five women occupying high powered posts in Union
(EU) EU/WOMEN: President Prodi believes gender equality is vital for genuine participative democracy
(EU) EU/SPAIN/ENVIRONMENT:
(EU) EP/UNITED STATES/TERRORISM: End must be put to legal vacuum in which Guantanamo Bay prisoners find themselves, Ole Adnreasen says - Agreeing with report, Chris Patten calls on EU not to make issue with Americans confrontational
(EU) EP/INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: EP adopts in single reading text of directive on sanctions against counterfeiting and piracy defined with Council
(EU) EP/CFSP: Party of European socialists thinks EU should become civil "superpower" and draw on multilateralism to participate in global security
(EU) EU/USA: Friends of the Earth accuses US government of seeking to impose GMOs on EU and rest of world through WTO
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Condemnation of France which can no longer apply as such a provision of the tax code on application of a fixed levy on income arising from investment
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