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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8903

8 March 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/oecd/economic reform
OECD feels reducing administrative burden on business, boosting competition in network industries and reducing agricultural support should be EU's priorities

Brussels, 07/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - On behalf of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Chief Economist Jean-Philippe Cotis has stated that “Economic catching up, which was widely believed to be automatic, started to stall during the 1980s and degenerated into relative decline during the 1990s. Today, GDP per capita in France, Germany or Italy is 30% below US levels and, at current trends, this gap will increase during the next few years”. Mr Cotis was...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: In the absence of a wholly satisfactory solution to the problem of languages in the EU, pragmatic but partial measures will have to do
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TURKEY: EU denounces violent suppression of women's demonstration in Turkey
(EU) EU/FRANCE/GERMANY/CONSTITUTION: Gerhard Schröder bets on ratification in second half of May
(EU) EU/EPP: Rome to host 2006 congress for party's 30th birthday
(EU) EU/ALBANIA: Albania to send 50 soldiers to Bosnia-Herzegovina - Belgium and Albania strengthen their military cooperation
(EU) EU/TOGO: EU calls for free and transparent elections following Faure Gnassingbé's resignation, as well as opening of domestic political dialogue
(EU) EU/LIBYA/LEBANON: Solana calls for deadline mechanism for withdrawal from Lebanon
(EU) EU/BURUNDI:
(EU) EP/CROATIA: EPP wants negotiations to start on 17 March
(EU) EP/CONSTITUTION: GUE/NGL sets up European network of local Communist and progressive councillors rejecting constitution - mobilisation against “services directive”
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION/GERMANY:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/STABILITY PACT/FRANCE/GERMANY: Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder want Pact to be geared more to growth and Bolkestein Directive to be re-examined from every angle
(EU) EU/EMU/MACRO-ECONOMIC DIALOGUE: Commission's spring forecasts finally to be adopted after Easter
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL/PATENTS: Common position is formally adopted on patenting computer-implemented inventions - Commission declaration in Strasbourg on Tuesday
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL/RESEARCH: Luxembourg Presidency hopes to prepare way for concluding 7th programme under British Presidency - Council on 18 April could be decisive for ITER
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL: After intense debate ministers of economy of EU 25 adopt contribution for European spring summit on rejuvenating Lisbon strategy
(EU) EU/GMO: EFSA returns favourable opinion on marketing of 1507 GM maize, to be used by European Commission to authorise it in food
(EU) EU/GULFCC: Meeting of Gulf Cooperation Committee- Negotiations resume
(EU) EP/SAUDI ARABIA/WOMEN:
(EU) EU/LEBANON/NEIGHBOURHOOD: Political crisis holds back deadline for EU relations
(EU) EU/ISRAEL: Agreement on fight against organised crime is closer
(EU) EU/UKRAINE:
(EU) EP/STABILITY PACT:
(EU) EP/SEAT:
(EU) EU/USA/TRADE: “Urgency for establishing certainty” on definition of public aid to Boeing and Airbus
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Commission investigates public service obligations on 18 air liaisons with Sardinia
(EU) EP/ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Energy efficiency should be first goal of framework directive “Eco-design for energy-using products”, says Peter Liese
(EU) EU/EMPLOYERS/LISBON/ITALY: Luca Cordero Montezemolo visits Brussels and highlights need for research, simplification, competition, liberalisation, infrastructure and Mezzogiorno
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Unemployment of 8.8% in euro-zone and EU25
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Retail trade down 0.6% in euro-zone - Up 0.9% in EU25
(EU) EU/OECD/ECONOMIC REFORM: OECD feels reducing administrative burden on business, boosting competition in network industries and reducing agricultural support should be EU's priorities
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET/SERVICES:
(EU) EU/REGIONAL/LISBON STRATEGY: President Barroso hopes for “decisiveness and solidarity between Member States” from March Summit - Conference on coherence and Lisbon Strategy confirm importance of communication for Lisbon Strategy
(EU) EU/MEDICATION: European Medicines Agency not worried about production problems at certain GSK sites
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE/TERRORISM: FIDH concerned at security excesses by pan-European organisation
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(EU) EUJHA/SEMINARS:
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(EU) EU/EUROPOL:
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN/PRESS:
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