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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9180

27 April 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 6 / 23
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (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'

Brussels, 26/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a report by its President, Elmar Brok (CDU, Germany), on Tuesday afternoon by 35 to 3 with 6 abstentions, on the future of EU relations with the United States. The Brok Report calls for an updating of the foundations of the transatlantic partnership, replacing the 1995 New Transatlantic Agenda with a new Transatlantic Partnership Agreement coming into force in 2007. Only an agreement of this...

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
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