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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8812

22 October 2004
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/barroso commission
Deciding to personally take on responsibility of individual freedoms and non-discrimination, Barroso is confident he will have Parliament behind him and appeals to its sense of responsibility - Buttiglione expresses regret - Greens/EFA, GUE/NGL and Independence/Democracy say no, EPP-ED and UEN are in favour, ALDE is "reserved" and PES is undecided

Brussels, 21/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - During the meeting of the Conference of Presidents of political groups on Thursday with the president-designate of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, the EPP-ED and UEN Groups were "absolutely" in favour of the future Commission, the ALDE Group expressed reserve, and the PES ("particularly critical") has still to decide, whereas Jens-Peter Bonde predicted a "no" from Independence and Democracy and the Greens/EFA and United Left/NGL were...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: EU's external actions, development aid and other aspects
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/BARROSO COMMISSION: Deciding to personally take on responsibility of individual freedoms and non-discrimination, Barroso is confident he will have Parliament behind him and appeals to its sense of responsibility - Buttiglione expresses regret - Greens/EFA, GUE/NGL and Independence/Democracy say no, EPP-ED and UEN are in favour, ALDE is "reserved" and PES is undecided
(EU) EU/BARROSO COMMISSION/PRODI COMMISSION/JHA:
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Determination to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation - Moscow awaits solutions on goods transit to Kaliningrad and improved situation of Russian minority in Baltic States
(EU) EP/EUROPEAN POLITICAL PARTIES: Constitution, UN Security Council reform and Sudan crisis on European Democratic Party agenda
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/EUROGROUP: No consensus on coordinated action in response to high oil prices, or on strengthening powers of Eurostat - States pledge to keep deficits below 3% in 2005 - Commission will re-assess impact of sharp rise in oil prices
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Ministers define basis for future common methodology to assess administrative burden on business
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Member States do not want to change budgetary flexibility instrument - Greece must supply missing budget data - Four countries could exceed 3% in 2005
(EU) EU/MERCOSUR/TRADE: After failure of Lisbon, continuation of free-trade negotiations postponed until 2005
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: Council hopes to define new multi-annual programme on Monday - opinions differ over asylum, co-decision and judiciary cooperation
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: Tuesday: bio-metric passports, disagreements on maritime pollution, Troika with Russia
(EU) EU/SWITZERLAND: Ten agreements with Switzerland to be signed on Tuesday
(EU) EU/FRAUD/ENLARGEMENT: Two agents of European Anti-Fraud Office are assigned to Romania and Bulgaria until 2007
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Commission withdraws proposals on oil stocks - Further proposals may prove necessary in future
(EU) EU/TRADE/DEVELOPMENT: Oxfam criticises Commission's new GSP proposal
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Italy asks for protection for "Genovese" basil
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURAL: Professionals welcome conclusions on organic farming
(EU) EU/BUDGET 2005: Parliament should decide in first reading if structural and external actions funding is raised - problem of mushrooming in specialist agencies
(EU) EU/FISHERIES:
(EU) EU/CLIMATE/CORRIGENDUM:
(EU) EU/ESYRIA: Details of association agreement initialled 19 October
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT/HEALTH: Ministers who acted as voluntary guinea pigs in WWF blood tests all have chemical products in bloodstream - renewed appeal for Reach
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Sweden will have to justify its fiscal incentives benefiting beer over wine in Court
(EU) EU/STATE AID/TRANSPORT: Yes to several aid regimes
(EU) EU/STATE AID:
(EU) EU/STATE AID:
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Italian law in favour of companies investing in areas hit by disasters in 2002 is not compatible with EC rules
(EU) EU/STATE AID/HUNGARY: Commission authorises aid to Postabank before membership, except one measure still to be examined
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Activities of open-ended investment companies are economic activities and therefore taxable for VAT purposes
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