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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9288
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition

17/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has given the go-ahead to the proposal by French oil company Total SA to acquire sole control of its Spanish counterpart CEPSA (Compañia Española de Petróleos S.A.). The transaction was examined under the simplified procedure. (ab)

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Is France against freedom of expression ?
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/BULGARIA/ROMANIA: Council approves accession on 1 January 2007 with possibility of imposing safeguards
(EU) EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR: Council confirms referral to Security Council but door is open for negotiation
(EU) EU/NORTH KOREA: EU strongly condemns Korean nuclear test
(EU) EU/RUSSIA/GEORGIA: EU calls for dialogue and offers to help find peaceful resolution to crisis
(EU) EU/SERBIA: No resumption of talks with Belgrade, which is still failing to cooperate fully with The Hague Tribunal
(EU) EU/BALKANS: Council considers strengthening EU presence in Bosnia-Herzegovina
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Council restates support for President Abbas and calls for Palestinian National Unity Government
(EU) EU/SUDAN: Council extends EU civil and military support for AMIS II until 31 December
(EU) EU/FUTURE OF EUROPE:
(EU) EU/ESDP:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/GAERc/DEVELOPMENT/TRADE: Foreign Affairs and Development Ministers pledge to keep their financial promises to support trade - support to EPA with ACP countries
(EU) EU/ANTIDUMPING:
(EU) EU/ANTIDUMPING:
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: Council sets out paths to be explored to tackle immigration in context of development of migrants' country of origin
(EU) EU/GAERC/DEVELOPMENT: Progress on debate over coherence of EU policies - Second EU-Africa Summit in 2007? - No progress on Zimbabwe
(EU) EU/GAERC/DEVELOPMENT: Council formalises political agreement on financial instrument for development cooperation with envelope of €17bn for 2007-13
(EU) EU/GAERC/DEVELOPMENT: Development ministers support common approach to support governance in ACP countries and other EU partners countries
(EU) EU/NEIGBOURHOOD POLICY:
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Commission puts final touch to proposal to revise postal directive
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Commission pursues four Member States for not respecting treaty rules or European jurisprudence
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Commission allows itself more time to present its reform proposals for wine and fruit and vegetable sectors
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: EFC against law on seeds in Turkey
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Compromise on spirits in sight
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/LAHTI SUMMIT/ENERGY: Ambitious four-point Danish contribution to energy policy for EU
(EU) EU/USA/AIRLINE PASSENGERS: US to try and get greater flexibility in next round of negotiations
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Commission unblocking new funding for research into avian flu and pandemics
(EU) EU/GALILEO:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission due to decide tomorrow on whether Italy encroached on its competence in Autostrade case
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission looking to extend exemptions from notification of state aid to several areas
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Reasoned opinion against Greece for failure to transpose European legislation on broadcasting services
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Sweden is taken to Court for failing to end broadcasting services monopoly
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Commission launches programme in favour of Belarusian students penalised for their political ideas
(EU) EU/EUROMED/TERRORISM:
(EU) EU/ANNIVERSARY TREATY OF ROME:
(EU) EU/EIB/PORTUGAL: €925 million loan for water management
(EU) EU/EIB/PORTUGAL: Loan for modernisation of suburban railway corridors
(EU) EU/EIB: Global loan for municipal infrastructure in Portugal
(EU) EU/EIB/ALBANIA:
(EU) EU/POVERTY: Commission concerned by slowness of progress towards millennium objectives - mobilisation on 17 October
(EU) EU/legislation: Main legislative acts published in offical journal
(EU) EU/STATISTICS/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/TELEVISION:
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 17/10/2006: