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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition

Commission approves several takeovers

Brussels, 10/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission yesterday authorised plans for the takeover of the oil refinery Mazeikiu Nafta by the Polish oil company PKN Orlen. Both are active in oil refinery andthe sales of oil products in the new Member States, the former in the Baltic States and in Poland, the latter in the Czech Republic and also in Poland (as well as in Germany). Despite the geographic and sectorial overlap of their activities, the Commission took the view that the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Lack of clarity and of vision in reactions to report on Turkey
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/EXTERNAL RELATIONS COUNCIL: Foreign Affairs Ministers discuss enlargement, Balkans and Middle East
(EU) EU/CFSP: EU defence ministers give go-ahead to first joint force protection R&D programme
(EU) EP/LATIN AMERICA: Euro-Latin American Transatlantic Assembly is born
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Wednesday's debate to focus on escalation of violence in Gaza - Call for revision of EU/Israel agreement if attacks against civilians continue
(EU) EP/IRAQ:
(EU) EU/EUROMED: Human rights in Mediterranean, a change is “possible and necessary”, EMHRN concludes
(EU) EP/CONSTITUTION: D'Alema confirms Italy's commitment for reactivating process, and Borrell recommends “institutional treaty”
(EU) EP/LEBANON/ISRAEL:
(EU) EP/ELDR/MOROCCO:
(EU) EU/PAKISTAN:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/CHEMICAL PRODUCTS: A compromise is taking shape on authorisation of most worrying substances - Second REACH reading in December
(EU) EU/RUSSIA/ENERGY: Poland threatens to block Partnership and Cooperation deal being brokered with Russia
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Andris Piebalgs tries to sooth Bulgaria's fears about security of electricity supplies in the Balkans
(EU) EU/CUSTOMS: More than 75 million counterfeit goods seized at EU borders in 2005
(EU) EU/CHINA: Peter Mandelson urges Beijing to wake up to need to fight climate change
(EU) EP/JHA/CHILDREN: Debate on European adoption policy
(EU) EP/JHA/IMMIGRATION: MEPs back idea of European Return Fund
(EU) EU/JHA/CIA: Polish authorities drag their feet
(EU) EP/JHA: Giusto Catania calls for head of UN anti-drugs agency
(EU) EU/JHA/VISAS: Young Europeans face 'Schengen Wall'
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Bringing Romania and Bulgaria into EU sugar farmers aid system
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Commission approves over €11.5 million to tackle animal diseases in Bulgaria and Romania in 2007
(EU) EUFISHERIES: Clamping down on illegal fishing in the Antarctic
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission approves several takeovers
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission gives green light to Philips's purchase of Intermagnetics
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Conditional green light to Thermo's takeover of Fisher
(EU) EU/EURO: New report on practical preparations for Euro
(EU) EU/EUROMED: Jacques Barrot pleads in favour of rebalance of transport flows in favour of Mediterranean
(EU) EIB/FRANCE: EIB loan for upgrading hospitals in Marseilles
(EU) EIB/MOLDOVA: European Investment Bank signs framework agreement with Moldavia
(EU) EP/REGIONAL POLICY/ITALY:
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(EU) EU/ENERGY: Piebalgs welcomes latest IEA report
(EU) EP/SESSION: Changes to agenda
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in the Official Journal
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