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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9105

10 January 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 6 / 30
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/austrian presidency/enlargement
Ursula Plassnik and Wolfgang Schussel say Austrian Presidency will manage accession talks with Turkey fairly - Importance of EU's 'absorption capacity'

Vienna, 09/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - Speaking to a group of European reporters in Vienna on 8 January, the Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik said the accession negotiations with Croatia and Turkey would follow their normal course in the first half of 2006 and the Austrian Presidency would do all it could to be 'a fair partner' in the process, despite strong reluctance about Turkey joining the EU. Western Balkans countries will take pride of place in the Austrian Presidency's...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Investigative journalism ten years on from Bosman ruling on European sport confirms its negative impact
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/FUTURE OF EUROPE: Austrian Presidency wants Commission to provide ideas on future of Europe for June Summit, stressing that all Member States and all citizens must be involved - Great debate on subsidiarity - Michel Barnier to look at civilian crisis management
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/IRAN: Ursula Plassnik has fears for meeting on 18 January - Wolfgang Schüssel hopes “reason” will prevail
(EU) EU/ISRAEL:
(EU) EU/FUTURE OF EUROPE/CONSTITUTION: Austrian Presidency hopes to create "climate change" to unfreeze debate and formulate "future questions" - Austrian Vice-Chancellor calls for new text for Constitution and for certain policies (including CAP) to be renationalised
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/ENLARGEMENT: Ursula Plassnik and Wolfgang Schussel say Austrian Presidency will manage accession talks with Turkey fairly - Importance of EU's 'absorption capacity'
(EU) EU/DEFENCE: Discussion between Michele Alliot-Marie and Javier Solana focusses on improved defence capabilities and Africa
(EU) EU/JHA/TERRORISM: Militant Sikh group added to EU's blacklist
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/ECOFIN/LISBON/BUDGET: Karl-Heinz Grasser urges Commission to come up with tailor-made recommendations for national reform programmes -Member States' budgets to be to be balanced 'on average' by 2010
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Chancellor Schusses says Austrian Presidency does not want to wait a long time
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/SERVICES: Chancellor Schusses wants social partners to be included in Services Directive talks - 'Balance' is the magic word
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Josef Pröll includes biomass action plan on agenda of next Agriculture Council
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/TAXATION:
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/LEGAL IMMIGRATION:
(EU) EU/AVIAN FLU: EU extends embargo on feather trade
(EU) EU/CLIMATE: Commission publishes guidance to help Member States draw up national plans for allocating greenhouse gas emission allowances for 2008-2012
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Reckitt Benckiser can purchase BHI
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Goldman Sachs and Cinven can buy Ahlsell
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Unemployment levels unchanged in November
(EU)EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/ROMANIA/INTERNAL MARKET:
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/AGRICULTURE: reinforcement of CAP reform and food safety in next six-month programme
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY: Ambitious strategy for sustainable development is top of EEB priority list for Austrian Presidency of Council
(EU) EU/AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/FISHERIES: Political agreement on fishing aid 2007-2013 expected in April, fuel crisis and rebuilding cod and flat fish stocks on agenda for first six months of 2006
(EU) EP/NUCLEAR:
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT: EU begins 2006 with common framework for a more coherent, coordinated and effective development policy
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS/COMMUNICATION: Conference on “communicating Europe at local level” on 25 January
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 669
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