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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8941

4 May 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 6 / 40
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/burma

03/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 25 April, the EU Council of Ministers renewed the common position on Myanmar and the restrictive measures concerning the military junta in power in Rangoon. The text of the common position and the Commission's rules of application, updating the list of persons and entities targeted by such measures, were published in the Official Journal L108 dated 29 April 2005.

 

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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