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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8809

19 October 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/europe's borders

18/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - Club Europe ARRI-AFEUR is organising a conference in Paris on 20 October on "The Frontiers of Europe". Two round tables will look at: a) opinion in France, introduced by Pierre Moscovici, Vice-President of the European Parliament and former French European Affairs Minister, and François Bayrou, President of the UDF and former French minister; b) opinion in Europe, presented by Christian Francq, Secretary General of TEPSA/Belgium; Tchetin Kazak, Hungarian...

Contents

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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