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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8941

4 May 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/seminars
European conferences and seminars in May

Brussels, 03/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - The following seminars, colloquia and other European events will be taking place during May 2005:

“'Droit de sociétés - evolutions récentes pour les dirigeants d'entreprises”. A seminar organised in Brussels on 10 May by “Infotopics”. Information: www.infotopics.be

“Networking and Clustering: A dynamic to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe”. Congress “EBN-IASP Nantes 2005” from 18 to 21 May in Nantes, France....

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: The EU and the Balkans: a few question marks
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Negotiations put finishing touches to road map for four spaces in view of their adoption on 10 May
(EU) EU/NPT: Nicolas Schmit defends common position of EU and series of other countries at review conference in New York
(EU) EU/WEU:
(EU) EU/CONSITUTION/BELGIAN FEDERALISTS:
(EU) EU/BURMA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Consolidation, implementation of current action plan, assessment and targeted initiatives are watchwords of Commission's Green Paper on financial services by 2010
(EU) EU/LISBON STRATEGY: Member States to submit their new national reform programmes to Commission by 15 October
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Neelie Kroes to request mandate for conducting inquiries in financial market sectors
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission expands investigation into new SNCB financing
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Inquiry into aid to Netherlands malt sector
(EU) EU/BUDGET: Move to simplify rules in financial regulations
(EU) EU/GALILEO: Pedro Pedreira executive director of GNSS supervisory authority
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET:
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Mr Mandelson and Mr Portman recommend “negotiated solution” in Airbus/Boeing dossier - Relaunching Doha Round
(EU) EU/TRADE: Judges appointed in banana dispute
(EU) EU/PUBLIC SERVICES:
(EU) EU/AUDIOVISUALS: Commission to step up digitalisation of written heritage and European audiovisuals
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Green light to new joint company between Bertelsmann and Axel Springer in heliogravure
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Political agreement within reach for funding common agricultural policy spending for 2007-13
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Rise in diesel prices worries sector
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Danuta Hübner visits east Germany and Portugal
(EU) EU/REGIONAL/ENLARGEMENT: Danuta Hübner says European funds will enable enormous growth potential to be realised in ten new economies
(EU) EU/INFORMATION SOCIETY/REGIONS: ICT serving democracy: what role for the regions?
(EU) EP/ENERGY: Laperrouze report on trans-European network guidelines supports pan-European gas and electricity market
(EU) EP/VISAS:
(EU) EP/SCHENGEN:
(EU) EU/EP/FOOD: MEPS in Committee look at lower Commission requirements for food and health claims
(EU) EU/EP/ENVIRONMENT: Parliament agrees to establish minimum quality standards for groundwater but refuses European limit values for more dangerous substances
(EU) EU/EP/ENVIRONMENT: Parliament takes part in first conference of parties to Convention on persistent organic pollutants
(EU) EP/EPP-ED:
(EU) EU/FISHERIES/MEDITERRANEAN:
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: In false accounting case, Italian courts cannot invoke EU directive which would increase Silvio Berlusconi's penal responsibility
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS/WROCLAW SUMMIT: Peter Straub calls for decision on cohesion policy in June
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS: Günter Verheugen tables on support from Employers Group of Economic and Social Committee to integrate Lisbon Strategy at national level
(EU) EU/SEMINARS: European conferences and seminars in May
(EU) EU/HUMAN RIGHTS:
(EU) EU/ERRATUM/TRADE:
SUPPLEMENT
EUROPE/Documents N. 2411-2412: Annual council report on fundamental choices facing CFSP
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