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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9060

3 November 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/knowledge-based society
Barroso, Verhofstadt, Redin, Martin, Leibowitz, Nagy and Netin to attend Global Forum in Brussels on 7 November

Brussels, 02/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - Global Forum, Shaping the Future has been holding annual events since 1992 looking at the knowledge based society, and in Brussels on 7/8 November, it is holding a conference on 'Broad Convergence - Act II - Services and Applications for Business and Communities in a Global Knowledge-Based Society'. Participants include the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, European Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, Belgian prime...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Energy and oil: Jeremy Rifkin discovers the European initiatives
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/INFORMAL SUMMIT: No "added value" at Hampton Court meeting, says Jean-Claude Juncker
(EU) EP/UK PRESIDENCY: Josep Borrell visits United Kingdom
(EU) EU/IRAN: Union not in favour of total isolation of Teheran
(EU) EU/UN/SYRIA: UN Security Council Resolution calls on Syria to cooperate with investigation into Rafik Hariri's assassination - EU issues statement
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST/SYRIA/TERRORISM: Quartet urges Syria to close down Palestinian Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus
(EU) EU/TERRORISM/INDIA: EU condemns New Delhi bomb attacks
(EU) EU/TERRORISM:
(EU) EP/AZERBAIJAN: Parliament calls for 6 November elections to meet international standards
(EU) EP/UZBEKISTAN: Parliament endorses Council's 3 October sanctions and calls for all non-humanitarian EU aid to be put on reserve
(EU) COUNCIL OF EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN:
(EU) EP/CHINA/TIBET: Parliament calls for all sentences against Tenzin Delek Rinpoche to be cancelled
(EU) EP/BELARUS: Meeting with opposition - Parliament hopes to hold public hearing as soon as possible
(EU) EP/FUTURE OF EUROPE:
(EU) EU/FUTURE EUROPE/IRELAND:
(EU) EU/AZERBAIJAN: EU hopes 6 November elections will respect international standards
(EU) EU/NEPAL: EU concerns over media restrictions in Nepal
(EU) EU/PEACE PRIZE:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/WTO: Pascal Lamy describes EU's latest farm offer, criticised by the US, G20, G10 and France, as 'serious'
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Commission to send officials to Gaza to explore options for re-opening border with Egypt
(EU) EU/UKRAINE: Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner confident about next Monday's visa decisions
(EU) EU/BIRD FLU: No H5N1 in Greece but H5 detected in Canadian wild ducks - US President George Bush prepares $7 bn crash programme
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT:
(EU) EU/CLIMATE: Green technologies, leitmotiv for informal energy/climate G8 organised by Tony Blair to get as many countries as possible on board for fight against climate change post-2012
(EU) EU/CLIMATE/AGRICULTURE: Conference in London on 29 November
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Piebalgs stresses importance of energy cooperation between Union and BASREC forum
(EU) EU/EIB: EIB hopes to step up its support for promising research and development projects
(EU) EP/REGIONS: Greens plead in favour of trans-Pyrenees Euro-region
(EU) EP/INFORMAL SUMMIT: First fairly mixed reactions
(EU) EU/INFORMAL SUMMIT/UNIONS: John Monks calls for new social agenda with voluntary and coordinated economic policies
(EU) EU/INFORMAL SUMMIT/CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE:
(EU) EP/TRANS-EUROPEAN NETWORKS: European Parliament takes position in favour of increasing rates of Community financing and encourages use of innovative financial instruments for TENs - 226 million EUR reduction for "Energy" financial perspectives for 2007-2013
(EU) EP/TAXATION: Pervenche Beres and Bernard Poignant call for special reduced VAT schemes to continue
(EU) EP/CONSUMERS: Euromat warns that slot machine industry could face huge losses if thousands of one and two euro notes are introduced
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES:
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Poland fears costs will entail European integration imposed on mortgage loan sector
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: CPMR General Assembly opens
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Jorma Karppinen, Finnish specialist in industrial restructuring, is the new director of Dublin Foundation
(EU) EU/CANADA:
(EU) EU/KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY: Barroso, Verhofstadt, Redin, Martin, Leibowitz, Nagy and Netin to attend Global Forum in Brussels on 7 November
(EU) EU/COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE: Publisher of Asterix cartoons cannot enjoy exclusive right to use of 'ix' suffix
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Luxembourg must stop requiring EU nationals' spouses to obtain work permits
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 660
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