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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8669

19 March 2004
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/germany

18/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - The president of the CDU of Rhineland North-Westphalia Jürgen Rüttgers and former CDU deputy Karl Lamers asserted in a joint documents that Germany and France have to be "the avant-garde" of Europe, if they wanted a genuinely European Europe and not an "Atlantic EU" (Karl Lamers was the author, together with Wolfgang Schäuble, of the 1994 document on "Kerneuropa", Europe's "hard core" which provoked a debate on the two-speed Europe: EUROPE of 2 September...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: European Parliament remains largely divided on EU policy on services of general interest - More detail needed
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TERRORISM: Support expected from Member States on adoption of solidarity clause, reinforcement of Europol and appointment of anti-terrorist co-ordinator - Differences on creation of European information agency - Special JHA Council this Friday
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION: Poland says its willing to compromise
(EU) EU/SPAIN: Manuel Marin, former European Commissioner may chair congress
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN PARTIES: European Free Alliance becomes party
(EU) EU/GERMANY:
(EU) EU/IRAQ:
(EU) EU/IRAN:
(EU) EP/EPP-ED: Schüssel, Waldner and Patten at Vienna study days next week
(EU) EP/ARMENIA: Parliament's EU/Armenia cooperation committee appeals for improvement in relations between Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan
(EU) EP/CROATIA: EP Foreign affairs committee supports Croatian EU accession request but subject to conditions
(EU) EP/PES/AUSTRIA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Negotiations with Microsoft fail - Monti announces decision creating legal precedent
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Despite unfavourable political context, Fischler invites Fifteen to agree on reform of Mediterranean products, on Monday
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Fishler warns that as long as payment bodies aren't ready, market aid won't be paid out
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: In "Boogerd-Quaak" resolution, Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights threatens to take agreement on indexing air passengers before the Court
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Schreyer and Vitorino say budget limited to 1% of GNP is not enough for Union of 27 - Fischler forecasts reduction in agricultural aid in 2008
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Income from road tolls should be spent on transport sector, says EP's Committee on Transport
(EU) EU/EP/ENVIRONMENT:
(EU) EU/EP/CONSUMERS: Parliament's legal committee calls for setting up of minimum harmonised rules for consumer credit
(EU) EP/EQUALITY: Prets report thinks gender as criteria for insurance premiums andpriivate pensions unacceptable
(EU) EP/DISASTERS: On 30 March, Parliament is to give go-ahead for use of Solidarity Fund for regions struck by natural disasters in 2003
(EU) EU/ETHICS: European Group on Ethics warns women about commercial firms which offer umbilical cord blood banking "services"
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Review of Spanish hydrological plan announced by Zapatero could calm European cynics
(EU) EU/EP/DEVELOPMENT:
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Commission to facilitate admission and residency of foreign scientists
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission authorises aid to Altis Semiconductor in France
(EU) EU/HEALTH:
(EU) EU/HEALTH:
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: German sickness funds not subject to competition rules when imposing upper limits on payments for certain medicines
(EU) EU/COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE: Hoechst calls for fine for agreement on sorbates market to be cancelled
(EU) EU/COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE: Turkish SME asks EU for financial compensation
(EU) EU/LISBON STRATEGY: Professor Maria Joao Rodrigues says "combine innovation, life long learning, social inclusion and sustainability to make Lisbon become Europe's way forward" - European Policy Centre recommendations
(EU) EU/COUNCIL/CULTURE:
(EU) EU/TEXTILES:
(EU) EU/CHURCHES/LISBON STRATEGY: COMECE calls for EU family strategy - Jérôme Vignon says "all polices have to take into account of impact they have in making family more fragile"
(EU) EU/LISBON STRATEGY: Single market, innovation, jobs, less red tape, sustainable Europe are objectives of AMCHeM EU
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