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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8727

17 June 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 46
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/social/working hours
Dimas meets social partners

Brussels, 16/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The re-examination of the directive on working time will be at the centre of Thursday's meeting in Brussels between Commissioner Stavros Dimas and European social partners. The proposal provoked divergent reactions from European unions and employers (EUEOPE 19-20 May). The latter (UNICE and UEAPME) declared that it is not longer able to negotiate this directive with European unions (ETUC), following the union's comments in the Commission-launched second...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Europe's Constitution: this week or never
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Presidency schedules plenty of time on Constitution at IGC, interrupted only by short European Council session and dinner (Thursday evening) on appointments
(EU) EP/IGC:
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Mr Ahern proposes single candidate to replace Mr Prodi - Consensus preferable to forcing qualified majority vote
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/COMMISSION: Romano Prodi hopes for decent compromise on Constitution, but fears undermining of governance - No advice for successor, except: be a good team leader
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION/ITALY:
(EU) EP/PRESIDENCY OF COMMISSION AND PARLIAMENT: Mr Brok and Mr Hänsch call upon European Council to consult political groups on Mr Prodi's successor - Mr Geremek to be Parliament President?
(EU) EP/POLITICAL GROUPS: Objective 100 for new union of Liberals and Centrists in support of Europe
(EU) EP/ELECTIONS/COMMISSION: Mr Prodi announces Commission's in-depth inquiry into results of European elections
(EU) EP/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/IGC:
(EU) EP/GREENS/GROUPS/COMMISSION: Cohn-Bendit sees Juncker at head of Commission and Rocard as Parliament president
(EU) EU/ELECTIONS/COMMISSION:
(EU) EP/PES/POLITICAL GROUPS:
(EU) EP/ELECTIONS: Results in portugal, Czech Republic and Slovakia
(EU) EU/KOSOVO:
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Human Rights Watch urges Turkey to go further in human rights reforms
(EU) EU/CAGRE/SUDAN: Union agrees to invitation inviting it to take its seat at cease-fire commission and participate in observation mission in wider Darfur region
(EU) EU/CFSP/SUDAN:
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Conference on Turkey on Thursday with Abdullah Gül and Günter Verheugen - Pro-Turkey "Friends of Europe" report
(EU) EU/BALKANS: First Troika between EU and Serbia-Montenegro
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE-FISHERIES COUNCIL: WTO and Mercosur negotiations, veterinary certificate issue with Russia and limiting fishing effort on agenda of Monday's meeting
(EU) EP/UNITED STATES: Legal committee decides to appeal in Court against recording passenger data - EPP-ED votes against
(EU) EU/JHA: Proposals on passenger data and on data exchange between law enforcement authorities are deferred till July
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Commission launches debate on future of European research policy
(EU) EU/EMU: Excessive deficit procedures on Commission's agenda on 24 June
(EU) EU/GMO: Member States do not take stance on GT73 oilseed rape
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Commission decides to postpone review on relevant markets in electronic communications
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/WORKING HOURS: Dimas meets social partners
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Euro-zone annual inflation up
(EU) EU/INDIA: Commission proposes new strategic partnership between India and EU
(EU) EU/EGYPT: Cowen underlines contribution Egypt could make to strategic partnership for Mediterranean and Middle East
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT/BRAZIL:
(EU) EU/MEXICO:
(EU) EU/CORPORATE LAW: Mitigated support for transparency in earnings of company directors
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission to approve State aid to Italy's publishing sector
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Oral hearing on proposal to merge BMG-Sony
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES:
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Public transport and railway sector call for action against terrorist threat on public transport
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Road transport sector criticises Council's political agreement on drivers' driving and rest periods
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT/OPEN SKY:
(EU) EU/CULTURE:
(EU) EU/ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION:
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN SUMMIT/EMPLOYERS: UNICE calls for growth strategy to put Lisbon into practice, appointment of "competitiveness" vice president in new Commission and strengtehing of "competitiveness" in constitution
(EU) EU/TAXATION/SMES:
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