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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9359
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment

EU supports Jacques Chirac's idea of creating UN agency for environment to fight urgent threats

Brussels, 05/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - The latest alarming report from the international experts of the inter-governmental panel on climate change (EUROPE 9358) has not stopped making waves. The serious nature of its forecasts shaped the Paris conference on global ecological governance. It also favoured the support pledged by 46 countries- mainly the countries of the EU and a few countries of Africa and Latin America- for the proposal of French President Jacques Chirac to create a United...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: A look at some aspects of European Commission's market cover policies
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Europeans and Russians hope negotiations on new partnership agreement will soon be launched
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Quartet backs renewed dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians and confirms principles for solution to conflict
(EU) EU/POLAND/CONSTITUTION:
(EU) EP/TREATY/CLIMATE: Jo Leinen backs Treaty on Climate Protection
(EU) EP/MEDITERRANEAN: President Pöttering in Tunis for EMPA Bureau meeting
(EU) EU/GERMANY:
(EU) EP/BELARUS:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/BIRD FLU: H5N1 virus moves on from Hungary to United Kingdom
(EU) EU/CLIMATE: Second allocation plan for Solvenia's greenhouse gas emissions quotas approved, subject to two minor changes
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: EU supports Jacques Chirac's idea of creating UN agency for environment to fight urgent threats
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Germany to plead for increased transparency of “hedge funds” at meeting of G7 Finance ministers
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Commission to propose to set EU minimum level of taxation of €359 for 1000 litres of commercial diesel by 2012
(EU) EU/RESEARCH:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/JHA:
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES:
(EU) EU/AFRICA: Louis Michel and Alpha Oumar Konaré open consultations for joint EU/Africa strategy to be adopted at EU/Africa summit in Lisbon 2007
(EU) EU/MEDICINES: EU and Japan improve their cooperation in medicines sector
(EU) EU/COURT OF AUDITORS:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Ms Fischer Boel repeats her wishes for future of CAP
(EU) EU/FiSHERIES:
(EU) EU/COMMISSION/REGIONAL/APPOINTMENT:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Commission expecting “moderately positive” development of cereals market and high level of sugar stocks
(EU) EU/FISHERIES:
(EU) EU/NGO: Greenpeace hands Commissioner Kyprianou petition containing signatures of one million European citizens calling for compulsory labelling on animal products fed with genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: E.ON launches final offensive for Endesa takeover
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: 33 candidates selected for scientific communication Descartes awards
(EU) EU/ENERGY/TRANSPORT: Commission proposes critical infrastructure identification criteria
(EU) EU/RESEARCH:
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Joint international agreements do not automatically take preference over national legislation
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN/ENVIRONMENT: Commission initiates public debate on education and awareness of environmental issues
(EU) EU/EIB: Long-term finance for SMEs in Rwanda
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in Official Journal
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 719
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