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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9230

12 July 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/informal competitiveness council
Mauri Pekkarinen and Günter Verheugen restate commitment in favour of broadened innovation policy

Jyväskylä, 11/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - After two days of informal discussion in Jyväskylä, where the European Union ministers for industry and research have been meeting since 9 July, the Finnish minister for industry and president of the Competitiveness Council, Mauri Pekkarinen, told the press that he welcomed the “strong support” from Member States in favour of a “broadened approach to European innovation policy”, especially regarding the demand aspect, an aspect that has...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: To what extent is a genuine European Union possible with British involvement?
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/IRAN: Following meeting with Ali Larijani, Javier Solana indicates contacts continue - Secretary General of Iranian Security Council warns that this will be a long process and “we have to be patient”
(EU) EU/HUMANITARIAN AID/GAZA: First TIM action in Gaza
(EU) EP/AFGHANISTAN: Rangin Dafar Spanta focuses on need to reinforce Afghan security forces and development aid
(EU) EU/TURKEY:
(EU) EU/ESDP:
(EU) EP/G8/RUSSIA: Open letter from 35 MEPs to participants in G8 Summit: “Issues of human rights and democracy in Russia must be raised clearly and unequivocally”
(EU) EP/EMPA/PALESTINE: Napoletano, De Keyser and Carnero Gonzalez call for Corporal Sahlit, Hassan Khrreische and members of the Artistes contre le mur association to be released
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/EUROGROUP: Growth, which could prove higher than forecast, must serve to consolidate public finance, Jean-Claude Juncker and Joaquim Almunia warn
(EU) EU/EUROGROUP/ITALY: Ministers welcome Italian measures to reduce deficit, but which have still to be put into practice
(EU) EU/ECOFIN/EMU: Slovenia officially joins euro zone
(EU) EP/ECOFIN:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/ECOFIN/EMU: Ministers cancel excessive debt procedure against Cyprus and take note of Portugal's progress
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: First exchanges on EIB's external mandate
(EU) EP/PENSIONS/PORTUGAL:
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Charlie McCreevy favours initiative from industry and not one from legislature for clearing and settlement
(EU) EU/G8/COMMISSION: Barroso's expectations from Saint Petersbourg on energy supply security, Africa, health and education
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Commission consensus on roaming regulation
(EU) EU/INFORMAL COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL: Mauri Pekkarinen and Günter Verheugen restate commitment in favour of broadened innovation policy
(EU) EU/IMMIGRATION/Rabat summit: Signing of first Euro-African pact on illegal immigration - Commission supports global and balanced approach - NGOs highlight respect for immigrants' rights
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE/COMMISSION: Former European Commissioner Edith Cresson is found guilty of favouritism but will continue to receive her pension
(EU) EP/COMPANY LAW: EP calls on Commission to present proposal on the European Private Company responding to the needs of SMEs
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: Move to new accounting system is “successful so far”
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Cereal production stable in 2006 - fall for sugar beets and rise in rapeseed
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Council adopts regulation giving one-year extension to fisheries protocol between EU and Guinea-Bissau
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: EU is world's second largest producer of roundwood after US
(EU) EU/FISHERIES:
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE:
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