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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9220

28 June 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council
Council adopts common position on LIFE+ (budget €2.1 billion for 2007-2013)

Luxemburg, 27/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Luxemburg on Tuesday, EU environment ministers, unsurprisingly and without debate, adopted the Council common position on the LIFE+ financial instrument for the environment for the period 2007-2013. This formal adoption follows the Council's partial political agreement of December 2005 on the objectives of LIFE+ and how funding was to be shared between the Commission and Member States (see details in EUROPE 9081). At the time, ministers were...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: EU-Turkey: plea for a reciprocal and consensual statement that accession is not the right way forward for future relations
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/FINNISH PRESIDENCY: Innovation, enlargement and Russia at centre of Finnish presidency's priorities
(EU) EU/COUNCIL OF EUROPE/CIA: Commission turns to Member States to shed light on illegal CIA activity
(EU) EU/AFRICA: Louis Michel pushes for EU/Egypt regional partnership for peace, security and development of Horn of Africa
(EU) EP/IRAN: Michael Gahler warns that human rights in Iran are “not negotiable” for reaching nuclear power compromise
(EU) EU/ESDP:
(EU) OSCE/PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: Council adopts common position on LIFE+ (budget €2.1 billion for 2007-2013)
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: Informal agreement on clean air in Europe
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: Political agreement on integrated approach to coordinated flood risk prevention and management
(EU) EU/JHA: On Wednesday Commission will propose use of “bridging clause” for completing justice, freedom and security area
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission soon to decide whether it will impose fines on Microsoft for failure to respect inter-operability obligation
(EU) EU/EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Agreement on new financial aid instruments for 2007-13
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Commission wants to improve European intermodal goods transport
(EU) EU/STATE AID: 24 Member States accept revised guidelines on regional aid but Germany voices objection
(EU) EU/COMPETITION/KOREA:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/HUMANITARIAN AID: Commission adopts annual programme for 2006 with envelope of €197 million
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Directive on right to family reunification confirmed
(EU) EP/JHA/TERRORISM/SWIFT: Socialists call Commission to account
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Regulation to tighten controls on fishing Patagonian toothfish
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Current rules allow for problems encountered in processed soft fruit and cherry sector to be resolved
(EU) EU/DEFENCE:
(EU) EU/EUROMED: Ministers welcome FEMIP contribution to investment and development and reducing administrative burden that discourages local initiative spirit and direct investment
(EU) EP/MEDIA: Results of Greens/EFA hearing on reform of Television without Frontiers Directive
(EU) EU/CHINA: Conference on trade and bilateral investment on 7 July to prepare Commission communication
(EU) EU/EIB: Health sector loans for United Kingdom and Austria
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