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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9035

27 September 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 36
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/social
Commission's reaction to Dominique de Villepin's comments in Hewlett-Packard affair

Brussels, 26/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - The affair of mass redundancies at Hewlett-Packard continues to make waves in France. The French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin stated, in the French weekend press, that "the Commission has the competencies to act against the restructuring plan of the American IT group Hewlett-Packard", contrary to what President Barroso and his Commissioner for Social Affairs, Vladimir Spidla, said (see EUROPE 9032/33). Reacting immediately to these comments,...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Two takes on the future of Europe
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/FUTURE OF EUROPE: Borrell highlights Parliament's role
(EU) EU/EP/CONSTITUTION/COMMISSION: Barroso calls for cooperation
(EU) EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR: EU still ready for negotiations
(EU) EU/POLAND: Poland to have right-wing government but name of prime minister remains unknown till after presidential election on 9 October
(EU) EU/CFSP/CONSTITUTION: Solana convinced of CFSP role in winning round public to European project
(EU) EU/TURKEY:
(EU) EU/FRANCE: Sarkozy proposes group of six as driving force for Europe
(EU) EU/FRANCE/TURKEY: Turkish accession "not question for today " and "truth will out in negotiations", according to Senator Haenel
(EU) EU/MOROCCO/BARCELONA: Mr de Villepin proposes "advanced status"
(EU) EU/ELDR: Annemie Neyts President of ELDR
(EU) EU/NATO: US ambassador to NATO says there's no plan for division of labour between EU and NATO
(EU) EU/SUDAN: EU welcomes government of national unity but is still concerned about Darfur
(EU) EU/GREECE/TURKEY:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/SWITZERLAND/FREE MOVEMENT/SOCIAL: Swiss vote for free movement of workers greeted positively
(EU) EU/CLIMATE/TRANSPORT: Commission proposes to include aviation in Community emissions trading system - NGOs plead in favour of this option
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE/IRELAND: Bertie Ahern defends CAP against any attempt at “radical reform”
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Public deficit falls in Europe between 2003 and 2004
(EU) EU/G7: Ministers concerned at oil prices, but make progress on debts of most indebted countries
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Investigation into Omya's acquisition of JM Huber's activities on production of minerals for paper industry
(EU) EU/JHA/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Data protection supervisor favours proposed directive on holding data over proposed framework-decision by four Member States
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Commission's reaction to Dominique de Villepin's comments in Hewlett-Packard affair
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: NGOs disappointed by thematic strategy on air pollution, deploring lack of binding targets
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/MULTILINGUALISM: Commission prepares strategy for better promotion of language learning - Russian fourth most widely spoken language, on par with Spanish
(EU) EU/BETTER REGULATION: UEAPME wants ambitious initiative and calls for revision of REACH and services directives
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN STUDIES/BELGIUM:
(EU) EP/SOCIAL/HEALTH: GUE/NGL conference calls on EU to draw up European action plan against asbestos - adoption of Brussels declaration
(EU) EP/SOCIAL: EP Intergroup on Ageing says ageing is an opportunity not a problem
(EU) EP/BUDGET/STRUCTURAL FUNDS:
(EU) EU/CHILDHOOD:
(EU) EU/EESC/SEPTEMBER PLENARY: Work focuses on future of development policy, gender equality, tourism, communicating EU - European Commissioner Louis Michel takes part
(EU) EU/EESC/EQUALITY: Dana Stechova calls for clearer definition of powers and responsibilities of European Gender Equality Institute
(EU) EU/EESC/DEVELOPMENT: José Maria Zufiaur calls for EU development policy and EU security policy to have same status
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No.655
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