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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/financial services

Big breakthrough in Council negotiations on draft payment services directive

Brussels, 22/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - Great progress has been made in recent weeks in Council talks on the draft directive on payment services (see Europe 9080 and 9362). On Wednesday 21 March, EU member states representatives saw that a qualified majority of states already agree on a draft compromise formulated by the German Presidency but the details still have to be examined in the member states in question. As we went to press, the representatives were mandating the German Presidency to...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Correct interpretation needed for Court of Justice rulings
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/BALKANS: Olli Rehn appeals to European unity to support Martti Ahtisaari's “realistic” compromise on status of Kosovo
(EU) CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY/ITALY:
(EU) EU/RELAUNCH: Results of “Etats généraux de l'Europe” to be forwarded to European Council
(EU) EP/REFORM: Graham Watson wants weekly plenary meetings
(EU) EP/PALESTINE: MEPs in favour of lifting sanctions
(EU) EU/ACP/ZIMBABWE:
(EU) EP/MOROCCO/SAHARA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Council approves Open Skies agreement deferring its enforcement until 30 March 2008
(EU) EU/GALILEO: Council supports Commission approach for getting Galileo moving again
(EU) EU/WTO/DOHA: G33 concessions raise hope of farm deal, raising pressure on EU and US
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES/TRADE: EU accuses Washington and some states of supplying Boeing with 23.7 billion dollars of aid since 1990
(EU) EU/SLOVAKIA: 2009 realistic for Euro accession
(EU) EU/EURO: Special euro coin issue to commemorate 50th anniversary Treaty of Rome
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Almunia says member states have to take more advantage of growth to improve their public finances
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Six member states taken to court
(EU) CORRIGENDUM:
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Big breakthrough in Council negotiations on draft payment services directive
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: New batch of court cases
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT COUNCIL:
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: European Commission and EEA launch online Water Information system for Europe - Member states asked to do more to improve water quality - Main challenge is reducing water usage
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Divergences on scale of uncoupling aid in fruit and vegetables sector and crisis management mechanisms
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Commission suggests amending certain agricultural spending financial regulations to ensure transparency
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Import quotas on sugar from Romania and Bulgaria
(EU) EU/SOCIAL/POVERTY:
(EU) EU/JHA: Presidency denounces fact that racism and discrimination are a “daily reality”
(EU) EP/JHA/UNITED STATES: Seminar on data protection
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EP/REGIONAL: Faced with future EU enlargements, Pieper report calls for new orientation to structural policies
(EU) EU/TRADE DEFENCE: European retailers and importers insist on reform of Community mechanism
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONs: Committee of Regions' “Declaration for Europe” supports heads of state “in bringing constitutional process to a rapid conclusion”
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Legislation published in Official Journal
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: European Commission may have to pay tax
(EU) EU/EIB: Loan for glass industry in Turkey
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
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