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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9180

27 April 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 23
GENERAL NEWS / € value in different currencies on 26/04/2006

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Positive impact of regional and local forces bursting onto great reflection scene
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/FUTURE OF EUROPE: France suggests improving institutions based on existing treaties
(EU) EP/ENLARGEMENT: Olli Rehn refuses to predict conclusions of report of 16 May, but puts out new warning to Bugaria - EP unanimously in favour of accession of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007
(EU) EP/TURKEY: Confiscation of Monastery of Saint George in Turkey could even justify suspension of accession talks, say MEPs Trakatellis and Dimitrakopoulos
(EU) EP/CIA/TERRORISM: Extraordinary renditions were not simple episodes, rather widespread practices in many European countries, says Claudio Fava - Concern about role of SFOR in Bosnia
(EU) EP/UNITED STATES: Adopting Brok Report, Foreign Affairs Committee suggests a Transatlantic Partnership Agreement and calls for NATO and EU to engage in 'true partnership of equals'
(EU) EU/FUTURE OF EUROPE/CIVIL SOCIETY: To achieve ratification of the Constitution (to be improved in some key points) by September 2009, five members of the Permanent Forum of European Civil Society suggest a process beginning with the Etats généraux of Network Europe and continuing through a “Conference for the Three Seas Alliance” and the adoption of “Declaration of Interdependence”
(EU) EP/WEU/NATO:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/SERVICES: Commission not proposing- but not ruling out- European legislative initiative on social services of general interest
(EU) EU/WTO/TRADE: EU may improve its agricultural offer if United States does likewise, Peter Mandelson says
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY:
(EU) EU/JHA/COUNTERFEITING: Commission proposes directive establishing European criminal instrument to fight piracy and counterfeiting
(EU) EU/HEALTH COUNCIL: Member States want to develop strategy to prevent diabetes
(EU) EU/HEALTH COUNCIL: Improving women's health
(EU) EU/HEALTH:
(EU) EU/EP/CHERNOBYL: Parliament and Commission pay tribute to victims - Commissioner Piebalgs stresses progress made and to come in nuclear safety - Debate resumed between opponents and proponents of nuclear power in Europe
(EU) EP/BUDGET: Strasbourg rent scandal
(EU) EP/ECB: Lucas Papademos says interest rates will rise again later this year
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY: France launches first AII projects
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission clears acquisition of Austrian mobile phone operator tele.ring by T-Mobile Austria
(EU) EU/MOROCCO/ENERGY: Half-financed by EIB loan, doubled electricity link between Morocco and Spain will be operational in June
(EU) EP/ROMANIA: MEPs call on Romanian authorities to authorise international adoptions in best interests of children
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 26/04/2006:
 USD  1.2425  HUF  265.78  SKK  37.26  RUB  34.036  KRW  1176.09 
 JPY  142.87  LTL  3.4528  CHF  1.5776  TRY  1.6505  MYR  4.5233 
 CYP  0.5761  LVL  0.696  ISK  92.87  AUD  1.6623  NZD  1.9734 
 CZK  28.417  MTL  0.4293  NOK  7.797  CAD  1.4058  PHP  64.486 
 DKK  7.4601  PLN  3.8873  BGN  1.9558  CNY  9.9673  SGD  1.974 
 EEK  15.6466  SEK  9.3135  HRK  7.299  HKD  9.6355  THB  46.863 
 GBP  0.696  SIT  239.58  RON  3.4747  IDR  10949.53  ZAR