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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/treaty/climate

Jo Leinen backs Treaty on Climate Protection

Brussels, 05/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - Chairman of the European Parliament's constitutional affairs committee Jo Leinen (PES, Germany) believes that the EU should have a Treaty on Climate Protection. “The European Union has to create the political and legal conditions for a consistent climate protection policy. … After the Single European Market, Economic and Monetary Union and Enlargement, climate protection policy could become the 4th major project of European integration,” Mr Leinen...

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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