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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9325
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/internal market

Council adopts services directive

Brussels, 11/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - During a “Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council” on Tuesday 11 December, the Council adopted in a second reading, the draft directive on services in the internal market. Lithuania and Belgium abstained. On Tuesday 12 December, the acting president of the Council and the president of the European Parliament will sign the legislative act to enter into force the after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU. The EP approved the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: European Commission gradually outlines more balanced trade policy in direction of better managed globalisation
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TURKEY: With freeze in negotiations looking ever more likely, ministers still seeking fair balance
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT: Presidency proposes to follow broad thrust of strategy put forward by Commission - debate in European Council
(EU) EU/AFGANISTAN: EU calls on government to take urgent measures to tackle problems related to security, drugs and rule of law
(EU) EUFIJI:
(EU) EU/ACEH/INDONESIA:
(EU) EU/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA:
(EU) EU/CAUCASUS:
(EU) EU/PES: PES Congress banks on social Europe to restore people's faith in EU
(EU) EP/HUMAN RIGHTS:
(EU) EU/NEIGHBOURHOOD:
(EU) EU/CHARLEMAGNE PRIZE:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/POSTAL SERVICES: Member States set conditions for completion of internal postal market
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Council notes progress on roaming fees
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Council adopts services directive
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Council agrees on toughening up ship controls in state ports
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Promoting short distance maritime transport
(EU)/TRANSPORT:
(EU)/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/CHINA: Council supports Ferrero-Waldner and Mandelson's strategy for new Sino-European partnership
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Aquaculture, illegal fishing and sea are priorities for 2007
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Formal adoption of 2007 Baltic Sea quotas by Council
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Promotion of agricultural products in third countries
(EU) EU/ELARGISSEMENT: New transitional health measures for Bulgarian and Romanian agricultural products
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Consultation on rules for negotiations on commodity and other "exotic" derivatives
(EU) EU/RUSSIA/ENERGY: Moscow half-opens door of Shtokman gas project to foreign investors - Mr Piebalgs confident that Moscow will ratify Energy Charter "sooner or later"
(EU) EU/ENERGY: ERGEG calls for new Community legisation on unbundling and more powers for Regulators
(EU) EP/JHA: PES Group suggests ten-point action plan on immigration
(EU) EP/JHA: Maltese MEPs welcome Commission's immigration package - NGOs react positively calling for refugees to be taken more into account
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: In-depth investigation opens into Universal's acquisition of BMG's music publishing business
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: First calls for proposals in field of health to close on 17 April 2007
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EP/JHA:
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EU/EIB: €160 million loan to Serbia for hospital modernisation and railway up-grade
(EU) EU/EIB/SERBIA: €50 million loan to Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank a.d. Beograd
(EU) EU/EIB/BELGIUM: €125 million loan to improve drinking water in Wallonia
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in Official Journal
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 712
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