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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8977

25 June 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/committee of the regions/gmo

24/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Marianne Fischer-Böel will participate in a round-table on 27 June in Brussels on the theme “The regions, genetically modified organisms and coexistence”. Among the participants at this round-table organised by the sustainable development committee of the Committee of the Regions (CoR): Joseph Daul, president of the EP agriculture and rural development committee and his vice-president Freidrich-Wilhelm...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Europe is not paralysed, it is functioning and making decisions
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Framework for negotiations and communication to involve civil society proposed on Wednesday
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION: Gerhard Schröder wants Commission to be driving force in getting EU out of crisis
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE/NATO/WEU: Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at 50th anniversary of first WEU Assembly session - Appeal to parliamentarians to support increase in Europe's defence budgets
(EU) EU/COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Franco-German Europe of Kohl-Mitterrand variety is needed, René van der Linden states
(EU) EU/BRITISH PRESIDENCY:
(EU) EP/HUMAN RIGHTS: Stock-taking with one eye to future at change-over of Presidency of Council of EU - MEPs' expectations of UK Presidency
(EU) EP/GERMANY:
(EU) EU/IERI:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/TRADE: New GSP regulation should be approved by Monday's Council, thanks to compromise on textile graduation not to everyone's liking
(EU) EU/ALGERIA: Benita Ferrero-Waldner on visit to mark beginning of association agreement implementation
(EU) EU/ASEM: 6th ASEM finance ministers' meeting
(EU) EU/EUROMED:
(EU) EU/TUNISIA:
(EU) EU/JORDAN: Launch of action plan
(EU) EU/USA: Draft agreement on marketing of wines
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: 500 000 tonnes of fodder grain for Spain
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS/GMO:
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: Council rejects all Commission proposals designed to force five Member States to repeal their national safeguard measures against GMOs - Authorisation decision on MON 863 maize sent back to Commission
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Commission proposes to negotiate liberalisation of services and investment
(EU) EU/COMPETITION/FRAUD: Commission does not doubt probity of seven DG Competition officials whose names have been forwarded to AMF in context of its inquiry into possible insider dealings during acquisition of Pechiney by Alcan
(EU) EU/DRUGS:
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT COUNCIL: Driving licences and external relations in field of aviation at Council on 27 June
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: "i2010" and World Information Society Summit on menu for talks
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission extends investigation into Italian aid to R & D in aeronautical sector
(EU) EU/CONSULTANTS:
(EU) EU/PRESS:
(EU) EP/EMU: Parliament approves review of preventive part of Growth and Stability Pact
(EU) EP/STATISTICS: Parliament trusts statistics verification missions will be reserved for Eurostat
(EU) EP/FISHERIES: Plan for recovery of black halibut stocks
(EU) EU/AVIATION AGREEMENTS: Commission concludes new “horizontal” aviation agreements with Australia and New Zealand
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Progress in Brenner Base tunnel project
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Workshop on European Health Insurance Card
(EU) EU/HEALTH: Patients suffering from rare diseases have high expectations of Europe: better information, swift diagnosis and quality health care
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Energy performance certificates for Berlaymont: Commission hopes to set in example on energy efficiency in public buildings
TIMETABLE
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SUPPLEMENT
EUROPE/Documents No. 2417: British Presidency: Tony Blair sets out his ideas on the future of Europe
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