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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8809

19 October 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin
Recent budgetary notifications and statistics to be main themes of Thursday's Council

Brussels, 18/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Finance Ministers of the EU will meet in Luxembourg on Thursday for an Ecofin Council dominated by recent Eurostat notifications on the budgets of the Member States (see EUROPE of 24 September, p.9). This subject will also be the main item on the agenda of Eurogroup, the day before. The ministers of the 25 will also tackle the question of the financial perspectives and reducing the administrative burden on businesses, and will discuss measures taken...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The bare bones of the hearings - The Buttiglione (or ambiguity) affair
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Ministerial meeting for preparing summit of 11 November
(EU) EU/IRAN: Europe prepares to broach new mediation with Teheran over nuclear issues
(EU) EU/INDIA:
(EU) EU/UN/SECURITY COUNCIL/ITALY:
(EU) EU/BARROSO COMMISSION: Ball is in Berlusconi's court, Marco Pannella says
(EU) EU/BARROSO COMMISSION: Bolkestein calls on Barroso to rule out European Federation
(EU) EP/CONSTITUTION/GUE/NGL: Francis Wurtz calls for vote against constitutional treaty
(EU) EP/TURKEY:
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION/RATIFICATION:
(EU) EP/ARMAMENTS: MEPS seek more binding code of conduct and plan European arms export agency
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Recent budgetary notifications and statistics to be main themes of Thursday's Council
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: Several Member States call for improvements to Community fruit and vegetable regime
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: Innovative eco-technologies should breathe new life into Lisbon and sustainable development strategies - Guidelines for 2005 Spring Summit
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/TRADE: Lamy/Zoellick meeting in Brussels
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: Convergence and terrorism on agenda of weekly College meeting
(EU) EU/ASYLUM: 50 NGOs oppose creation of camps on Europe's borders - Appeal to European Council of 5 November
(EU) EU/ASYLUM: Disagreement in G5 over refugee centres outside EU
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Courtesy visit to discuss visa waivers
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Eurozone and EU25 annual inflation down to 2.1%
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Almunia says growth forecasts may be scaled back
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/EUROPE'S BORDERS:
(EU) EU/STANDARDS: Commission aims for greater efficiency in standards for a competitive Europe
(EU) EU/COMPANY LAW: Commission creates European Forum to promote convergence in Europe
(EU) EP/CORRIGENDUM:
(EU) EU/EIB: EUR 760 million for research and development, infrastructure and SMEs in Poland
(EU) EU/EIB: Loan for science and innovation in Poland
(EU) EU/EIB: EUR 10 million for banks in Gabon
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Commission continues legal action to protect rare sea turtle
(EU) EU/ANIMAL DISEASES: EUR 188 million to combat animal diseases in 2005
(EU) EU/ACP: Commonwealth and French-speaking world unite to support ACP in trade policy
(EU) EU/BURMA: ICFTU and ETUC say EU action is insufficient
(EU) EU/WYTO/TRADE:
(EU) EU/TERRORISM:
(EU) EU/ICELAND/TRADE:
(EU) EU/UZBEKISTAN/TRADE:
(EU) EU/CROATIA/TRADE:
(EU) EU/TAXATION: New Member States better at respecting EU law than old Member States
(EU) EU/EIB/FEMIP: Loan for private sector in Egypt
(EU) EU/EIB: World Bank and European Investment Bank release report on tertiary education in Poland
(EU) EU/EMU:
(EU) EP/UTILITIES:
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Communists and Greens reject planned liberalisation of port services
(EU) EP/POVERTY: Anna Zaborska says anti-poverty programmes should have special approach for women - Lissy Groner calls for strategy to combat female poverty
(EU) EP/WOMEN OF EUROPE: Josep Borrell congratulates Aliki Moschi-Gauget
(EU) EP/PES/LISBON: Plea to Wim Kok by MEPs Rasmussen, Goebbels and Désir
(EU) EU/POVERTY: Third round table on poverty and social exclusion (Rotterdam, 17-19 October)
(EU) EU/CITIES: Eurocities conference in Vienna focuses on dialogue between cities and European insitutions
(EU) EU/CEEP/ENTERPRISE: European integration and local public companies central to Vienna conference
(EU) EU/COURT OF FIRST HEARING/OLAF: Rejection journalist Hans-Martin Tillack's appeal against OLAF over articles in Stern magazine
(EU) EU/COMMISSION/SPOKESPERSON: Reijo Remppinen to manage European Commission's office in Helsinki
(EU) EU/COMMISSION:
(EU) EU/COMMISSION:
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 615
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