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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/social/disability

Final "Included in Society" conference

Brussels, 06/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The final conference on local residential services for the disabled will take place in Brussels on 22 and 23 October. It will mark the end of the "Included in Society" project (which looked at living conditions and current practice in Europe's largest residential institutions for people living with disability), and the beginning of a new European movement in favour of more and better local residential services. Info: www.community-living.info.

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The last weeks of the Prodi Commission will not be a peaceful "end of reign" - Difficult decisions, a weighty inheritance for the Barroso COmmission
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TERRORISM: Italy wants to strengthen anti-terroist policy
(EU) EU/IRAQ: Europeans wish to help reconstruction in Iraq but consider security is insufficient for presence on ground
(EU) EU/Middle East: Bot considers Israel ready to accept greater EU role in Middle East
(EU) EU/AFRICA: Twenty-Five remain concerned about situation in Darfur
(EU) EU/BURMA: Europe accepts Myanmar's participation at next ASEM Summit but foresees more severe sanctions unless Burmese junta meets three conditions
(EU) EU/BALKANS: EU hopes to find technical solutions with Serbia and Montenegro without questioning Union between these two States
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Last reform package should be adopted on 14 september but it contains law penalising adultery
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Fischler expects referendum in several countries on possible Turkish access to EU
(EU) EU/IRAN:
(EU) EU/DUTCH PRESIDENCY:
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Commissioner Verheugen's very positive remarks on his last visit to Turkey before report of 6 October
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Group of political personalities consider that no obstacle is insurmoutable for Turkey's EU accession towards 2015 - immediate opening of negotiations as soon as political criteria (on which the group will not give an opinion) are fulfilled
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: EU to appeal WTO decision against EU sugar subsidies, says Mr Fischler
(EU) EU/MERCOSUR: Quality of trade agreement more important than October deadline, says Mr Fischler
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Philippe Busquin visits Libya
(EU) EU/GMO: Commission to adopt proposal on tolerance ceilings for accidental presence of GMOs in seeds
(EU) EU/GMO: Commission to present its formal proposal to Council on Wednesday on authorising marketing of GT 73
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Commission publishes details on eight people and dogs that came into contact with rabid dog in France
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Enquiry on Abbey National buy out by Santander continues
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: First phase of market tests to assess Coca Cola's proposals to change its commercial practices
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Commission and Germany hostile to French Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's idea of linking tax and structural aid
(EU) EP/STABILITY PACT: Most MEPs support Commission proposals - Mr Juncker says these will not weaken Pact
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Presidency programme in transport sector is highly ambitious, EP transport committee says
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Study calls for greater investment in combined transport sector
(EU) EU/LISBON STRATEGY: Economic and Social Committee hearing on improving Lisbon strategy
(EU) EU/REGIONS: Open day on practices and reforms of regional policy, with Peter Straub and Jacques Barrot
(EU) EU/REGIONS: Jacques Barrot attends Conference of Presidents of extremely remote areas
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/DISABILITY: Final "Included in Society" conference
(EU) EU/COUNCIL OF EUROPE/EQUALITY:
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: First arrivals at renovated Berlaymont on 20 September
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Volume of retail trade up by 1.1% in euro-zone and in EU25 up by 2.6%
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Regional Baltic Sea organisation no longer needs to exist - toward bilateral EU/Russia agreement?
(EU) IMO/TRANSPORT: Implementation of new IMO safety measures makes progress but delays continue in Africa and Eastern EUROPE
(EU) EU/ENTERPRISES:
(EU) EU/ENTERPRISE/SOCIAL:
(EU) EU/FISHERIES:
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Government of Gibraltar challenges Commission decision stating corporate tax reform is incompatible with common market
(EU) OECD/ENERGY: Given oil price instability, OECD recommends strategy aimed at biomass
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
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