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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8869

19 January 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 15 / 28
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/regional/structural funds
Best ever use of available financial resources in 2004, affirms Danuta Hubner

Brussels, 18/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - Presenting the results to the press for structural funds and cohesion instruments for 2004, European Commissioner for regional policy, Danuta Hubner noted that commitments and payments represent the highest amount ever available per year in the history of the Structural Funds. Payment requests by Member States exceeded this time even budgetary resources. This made an additional amount - 2.4 billion EUR which were fully used - necessary to be agreed upon...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Jean-Claude Juncker seeking radical overhaul of Lisbon strategy
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Asselborn warns against US military intervention in Iran - Call on Israelis and Palestinians before visit to region - Action plan with Ukraine must be priority, then “we'll see”
(EU) EP/ESDP/TSUNAMI: Two liaison officers ensure coordination of military means made available by EU Member States for South Asia
(EU) EU/EARTHQUAKE: Interpol calls on Presidency to help it find experts for identification of victims
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/EUROGROUP: Next mould of stability and growth pact mobilises ministers but perspectives still vague - Juncker plans to strengthen preventive dimension of pact
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: France, Germany and five new Member States exit excessive deficit procedure - Hungary and Greece, however, have not taken sufficient measures
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL/TSUNAMI: Macroeconomic impact of Indian Ocean tsunami - EIB planning new 1 billion euro loan facility
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Controversy-free Council approves Economic Policy Committee's report on structural reforms and five Stability and Convergence Programmes
(EU) EU/EURO: Three times as many counterfeit euro coins removed from circulation in 2004
(EU) EU/COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE: European Commission's State aid decision against Crédit Mutuel (France) is annulled
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Neelie Kroes meets Caio Koch-Weser to discuss Landesbanken
(EU) EU/LUXEMBOURG PRESIDENCY/EMPLOYERS:
(EU) EU/EP/CHEMICAL PRODUCTS: Partisans of European competitiveness sharpen their knives before hearing on “Reach” - support for an assessment based on risk and not on product tonnage
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY/AIR TRANSPORT: Verheugen, Barrot and Mandelson in Toulouse to launch Airbus A380
(EU) EU/REGIONAL/STRUCTURAL FUNDS: Best ever use of available financial resources in 2004, affirms Danuta Hubner
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Mario Monti chairs European centre for global economy “Bruegel”
(EU) EU/UN/DEVELOPMENT: Professor Sachs says half a percent of rich countries' GNP is enough for meeting Millennium Goals - Sachs and Malloch Brown stress connection between development and security- Louis Michel calls for focus on Africa, saying there is no excuse for failing to act
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT/PRESS: Commissioner Louis Michel awards the Natali Prize gold medal to Chilean Juan Cristóbal Fletcher
(EU) EP/INTERNAL MARKET: Greens want to start discussions on directive on computer assisted inventions, from scratch
(EU) EU/EMU: EBF wants strengthened stability and growth pact in compliance with Commission suggestions
(EU) EU/COMMON MARKET: Commission takes action against seven Member States over public procurement rules
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY: Commission survey reveals that online tax returns save people time
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: EUR 620 million for extending Trans-European Transport Network
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/ENERGY: EU will fail to reach target of 12% total energy consumption from renewable sources by 2010
(EU) EU/REGIONAL/CPMR: Commissioner Joe Borg invited to launch consultation phase as soon as possible on Green Paper for EU maritime policy - solidarity with South East Asia
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/INSURANCE: AISAM report on companies' social responsibility shows insurance firms have integrated ethnic and social values for some time now
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