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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8911

18 March 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Due to divergences on textile imports, Council still can't adopt new SGP

Brussels, 17/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday the General Affairs Council was unable to obtain qualified majority needed for adopting the regulation on the new System of Generalised Preferences (SGP) of the European Union, which is due to enter into force on 1 April (until the end of 2008. Discussion essentially failed on the question of graduation of SGP beneficiary countries in the area of textiles. Member States were mainly divided on the proposal the Commission put forward for the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
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THE DAY IN POLITICS
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(EU) EU/MOLVDOVA: Political agreement on appointment of Adriaan Jacobits as EU special representative
(EU) EU/IRAN: EU welcomes US support for diplomatic solution to nuclear problem
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Asselborn says recent developments in Israel-Palestinian peace process are encouraging
(EU) EU/NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY:
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GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EP/SPRING SUMMIT/NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS: Meeting with national parliaments results in broad consensus on reviving Lisbon strategy and need for parliaments to be involved - Barroso and Juncker explain Bolkestein Directive
(EU) EU/SPRING SUMMIT/TRADE UNIONS: ETUC calls for Social Europe to be core of Lisbon strategy - John Monks and Jean-Claude Juncker support liberalisation of services, but oppose social dumping
(EU) EU/LISBON STRATEGY: Implementing Lisbon strategy will potentially increase growth by 0.5% and 0.75%
(EU) EU/SPRING SUMMIT/SERVICES: Jeannot Krecké says country of origin principle should be maintained but modified
(EU) EU/TRADE: Due to divergences on textile imports, Council still can't adopt new SGP
(EU) EU/INFLATION:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/DEMOGRAPHIC AGEING: Vladimir Spidla calls for “global and urgent response to serious changes to entire European economy”
(EU) EU/AUDIOVISUALS: Concrete measures to fight racist broadcasting
(EU) EU/PALESTINE/FRAUD: OLAF says there it no proof that EU aid was used for terrorism
(EU) EU/JUSTICE: Proposal to take account of previous criminal offences from other Member States
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS/LISBON: “Less bureaucracy, more growth”: Commission presents measures for “better regulation” on Wednesday as part of revitalised Lisbon Strategy
(EU) EU/SPACE: Commission negotiates future Galileo-Glonass interface - Deployment of Galileo system
(EU) EU/ENTERPRISE: Innovation to be main theme of next business fair organised by CORDIS
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET/PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: European legislation infringement procedures and public procurement in four Member States
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission demands repayment of Italian state aid awarded to companies quoted on stock exchange for first time in 2004
(EU) EU/STATE AID/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Green light to French and Spanish aid to shipbuilding
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: Modernisation of accounting system a success
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Symantec's purchase of Veritas authorised
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(EU) EP/DEVELOPMENT: Council President Jean-Louis Schiltz warns national parliaments that level and efficiency of public development aid must be increased to meet millennium objectives
(EU) EP/ENVIRONMENT: Parliament asks Commission for sufficient funding for Natura 2000 if EU is to reverse decline in biodiversity by 2010
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Court information on several of the thirty cases dealt with on 10 March
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Reasoned opinion against Greece for shortcomings in air safety area
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Commission takes Belgium to Court over failure to comply with maritime law
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Case against Portugal is taken to Court
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