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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9216

22 June 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 45
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/jha
LIBE Committee in favour of stepping up fight against organised crime

Brussels, 21/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) opened the road for adoption, during the July plenary, of two additional protocols to the United Nations Convention on transnational organised crime. The so-called Palermo Convention aims to allow signatory countries to effectively cooperate in combating organised crime by harmonising definitions of offences in the various national legal...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Imbalance in Commission's document on EU's role in world
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Summit adopts declaration strengthening “strategic partnership” - Differing approaches on some issues cannot mask depth and quality of transatlantic relations, stresses Mr Schüssel - Bush wants an end to Guantanamo
(EU) EP/NEIGHBOURHOOD: Impact of neighbourhood policy on human rights and democracy questioned - Hearing on Egypt and Israel
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Further warning from Commissioner Rehn
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: End renditions and close Guantanamo
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION/JEF:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Decision to reinforce energy cooperation and adoption of joint strategy against piracy and counterfeiting are main results of economic plank of Vienna Summit
(EU) EU/EMU/PORTUGAL: Commission notes that Portugal is on right track to bring its deficit back within Stability Pact limits
(EU) EU/EMU/CYPRUS: Commission proposes to close excessive deficit procedure against Cyprus
(EU) EP/ECB: ECB confirms economic growth is for real but inflationary pressures in medium term remain - Trichet says he supports European solution on stock market mergers
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Court of Auditors criticises Bulgaria and Romania's use of Phare programme funding
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Between €50 and €65 million in Community aid for poultry and egg producers
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/FISHERIES:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Neelie Kroes welcomes remarkable work done by Chinese authorities when drafting anti-monopoly law
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY/RESEARCH: Industry commits to action programme to reduce testing on animals - Commission guidelines
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES:
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(EU) EU/AFRICA/MIGRATION/DEVELOPMENT: First Euro-African ministerial conference on migration and development to launch political and operational partnership (Rabat, 10-11 July)
(EU) EU/JHA: Franco Frattini hopes to rally support of Dutch MEPs to communitarisation of third pillar
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Indian cable producer Usha Martin challenges EU anti-dumping decision
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(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Bishops concerned at European Parliament vote on human embryo stem cell research
(EU) EU/COMECE: Rise in labour costs
(EU) EU/ENTERPRISE/SOCIAL: Eurochambres launches CAESAR, new project for corporate social responsiblity
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EP/JHA: LIBE Committee in favour of stepping up fight against organised crime
(EU) EP/TELEVISION: Greens/EFA denounce exploitation of televised ethnic-tourism by Endemol and France 2
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(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS/GOVERNANCE: Raymond Forni underlines value Committee places on tripartite contracts of agreed objectives, which should be relaunched and made more operational and accessible
(EU) EU/REGIONS/COMMUNICATION: “European institutions must play greater role in making Europe accessible to citizens”
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